[Oer-community] Introduction to the discussion

[Kimberly Wescott]

 A Utopia worth striving for!.  I struggled a bit with "all" though.  I've actually been troubled for some time with the idea of peer review for OER.  Not all that is created is accurate or "true" (for want of a better word).  Nor is all that is created worth sharing - Aye, there's the rub.  Who decides what is worthy?  How?  By what criteria?  I know I may be leaping ahead a bit here.  But, this issue is deserving of much debate I think. 

Kimberly
Houston, TX


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Foerster <steve at hiresteve.com>
To: oer-community at athabascau.ca
Sent: Tue, Oct 5, 2010 7:47 pm
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Introduction to the discussion


Zaid wrote:

> In general, I personally believe that it is a fundamental right
> to global learning that all academic content created should be
> shared for free, especially from public institutions.

I don't believe in state-granted entitlements to knowledge in the first
place, but if nothing else I surely agree that the idea of placing
everything funded by taxpayers into the public domain seems like a
no-brainer.

Personally, I'd at least like to see developing countries consider
far-reaching fair use/fair dealing amendments to copyright when it comes
to education use of copyrighted materials.  But I suppose we each have
our utopias....

-=Steve=-


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