I think this is an extremely good question. I have been embarking on a largely voluntary exploration of what I am coming to think of as the "OE" world and find it extremely confusing and difficult to navigate...and I imagine that most people will just stick with what they know (the more commercial sources) rather than really searching the OE world. I know that even as a dedicated OE fan in reality I just don't have time to hunt for the "good stuff" so commercial is the default mode. All the best to all. Joyce McKnight
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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
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