From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find? | EdSurge News

"For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into efforts encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Last year, the U.S. Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible.

Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?”. From my experience, the answers usually are: (1) OER resources are in silos, and (2) Many of the silos are poorly organized. Let's examine these two issues:...

"For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into efforts encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Last year, the U.S. Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible.

Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?”. From my experience, the answers usually are: (1) OER resources are in silos, and (2) Many of the silos are poorly organized. Let's examine these two issues:...