Content Creation and
Open Educational Resources
Graham Attwell
the creation of open source software and development tools. the creation and provision of open course content and the development
of standards and licensing tools
“Openness is the core
paradigm of content, tools and services in Web 2.0 digital environments”
Dimensions of openness:
easy discovery(re)use
‘learnability’community
OERs have been very successful
but there remain many challenges
and issues
Take up and use of OERs is limited: reuse even more so
Teachers and learners are still
seen as consumers of content who
primarily want to download
materials
rather than participants
in communities of practice
This means providing a
means for active involvement with
the content
Managing learning
Facilitating interaction
Empower users -
encourage (co)creation
Support individual content
creators and communities of practice with
useful tools and services
Make licensing of content as easy as possible
Allow for easy discovery and
access to reosurces
support the creation of rich metadata and
provide semantically
enhanced access to resources
develop an ecology of Open Educational Resources
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