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Grounded design is "the systematic implementation of processes and procedures that are rooted in established theory and research in human learning (Hannafin, Hannafin, Land, & Oliver, 1997, p.102)." Four conditions are basic to grounded design: designs must be rooted in a defensible theoretical framework methods must be consistent with the outcome of research conducted to test, validate, or extend the theories upon which they are based designs must be generalizable to situations beyond the unique conditions in which they are being utilized grounded designs and their frameworks must be validated iteratively through successive implementation

The central idea behind the theory of nonconceptual mental content is that some mental states can represent the world even though the bearer of those mental states need not possess the concepts required to specify their content.

Cognitive overload: it is difficult to separate the 'content' from the 'context' in a OER, thus it is difficult to decontextualize an OER and re-contextualize it to a different learning context/purpose;

The most succinct summation of this question was provided by an accountant who was in my group a couple of years ago. She phrased it as: (£ consuming vs £ benefit)