Hi, all I just read the article "Online. Indexed. Catalogued. Free. But will users find it?" (available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20100213). The following quote from the article pretty well sums up the issue: "...making content free will not guarantee its discovery or usage..."
The article is about journal articles, but I as I read it I realized that the basic issue also applies to open education - specifically, WE and the CollabOERate concept. It is not an issue with marketing (at least not in the narrow sense of the word), but about being able to get users to find the material from the internet, especially with the bias that exists toward proprietary and other copyright restricted material. Any thoughts? Cheers, John http://www.wikieducator.org/User:JohnWS http://johnsearth.blogspot.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
