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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