Open educational resources (OERs) have been successful in providing open content and tools, but their use and reuse remains limited as teachers and learners are often seen only as consumers rather than participants. To develop an ecology of OERs, support is needed for active involvement with content through community engagement, interaction facilitation, empowering users to co-create, and providing useful tools and services for individual creators and communities while making content licensing and discovery as easy as possible.

1. Content Creation and Open Educational Resources Graham Attwell

2. 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

3. “ Openness is the core paradigm of content, tools and services in Web 2.0 digital environments”

4. Dimensions of openness: easy discovery (re)use ‘learnability’ community

5. OERs have been very successful but there remain many challenges and issues

6. Take up and use of OERs is limited: reuse even more so

7. Teachers and learners are still seen as consumers of content who primarily want to download materials

8. rather than participants in communities of practice

9. This means providing a means for active involvement with the content

10. Managing learning

11. Facilitating interaction

12. Empower users - encourage (co)creation

13. Support individual content creators and communities of practice with useful tools and services

14. Make licensing of content as easy as possible

15. Allow for easy discovery and access to reosurces

16. support the creation of rich metadata and provide semantically enhanced access to resources

17. develop an ecology of Open Educational Resources

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