There is a lot of talk in OER circles about discoverability. Much of it deals with metadata schemes and other technical details that may seem arcane to some.<\/p>\n
Here’s a real-world story of\u00a0discoverability.<\/p>\n
Over the past couple weeks, I have been looking open materials on sustainable agriculture, permaculture, and food systems. I looked in the usual repositories and found a few things, but not much.<\/p>\n
Then today on a phone call, a guy told me about an open textbook he just put out on this subject. “With a Creative Commons license,” he said. Really?!? Wow!<\/p>\n
Sometimes we discover things in the most analog ways. (And yes, I’ll be putting this item into the repositories! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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