Comments on: The quality issue http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/234 A blog for reflecting on the opportunities and challenges in open education Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:45:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: karen http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/234/comment-page-1#comment-756 karen Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:01:05 +0000 http://www.k12opened.com/blog/?p=234#comment-756 Thanks for the comments, Anna. There are two issues here: the quality of the resource as it is initially presented by the developers (be they a team of content experts or the "mass") and then the quality of the resource as it is remixed. My concern and the concern I've heard others express is with the former. I don't think people are distinguishing between OERs that are created by experts and vetted for quality and those that are created by the "mass." Many seem to think that all OERs are created through a process like Wikipedia. Regarding the latter, teachers "remix" conventional resources like textbooks everyday, though they may not call it that. Thanks for the comments, Anna. There are two issues here: the quality of the resource as it is initially presented by the developers (be they a team of content experts or the “mass”) and then the quality of the resource as it is remixed. My concern and the concern I’ve heard others express is with the former. I don’t think people are distinguishing between OERs that are created by experts and vetted for quality and those that are created by the “mass.” Many seem to think that all OERs are created through a process like Wikipedia.

Regarding the latter, teachers “remix” conventional resources like textbooks everyday, though they may not call it that.

]]> By: Anna http://www.k12opened.com/blog/archives/234/comment-page-1#comment-755 Anna Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:24:56 +0000 http://www.k12opened.com/blog/?p=234#comment-755 Thanks Karen. Having been on the FreeReading dev team when it started, thanks for the "high quality" shout out. You bring up a very valid point - most OERs are created through a relatively conventional dev process - sometimes even by the same people that create content for the big publishers. While mixing and mashing of content can lead to amazing as well as not-so-amazing learning resources, one of the challenges many OER aggregators face is just getting people to mix, mash and most importantly "share back" in the first place. Hard to judge the "quality" of mass collaboration, when the mass collaboration isn't really happening in mass. I agree with you 100% Re: "The benefits of OERs to our teachers and students are too great to do otherwise". Anna Thanks Karen.

Having been on the FreeReading dev team when it started, thanks for the “high quality” shout out. You bring up a very valid point – most OERs are created through a relatively conventional dev process – sometimes even by the same people that create content for the big publishers.

While mixing and mashing of content can lead to amazing as well as not-so-amazing learning resources, one of the challenges many OER aggregators face is just getting people to mix, mash and most importantly “share back” in the first place. Hard to judge the “quality” of mass collaboration, when the mass collaboration isn’t really happening in mass.

I agree with you 100% Re: “The benefits of OERs to our teachers and students are too great to do otherwise”.

Anna

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