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Using Wiley (2007) definition of sustainability as "an open educational resource project's ongoing ability to meet its goals." Wiley's three models that he characterized as follows: - The MIT model: "highly centralised and tightly coordinated in terms of organisation and the provision of services, relying almost exclusively on paid employees" - The USU model: "hybrid of centralisation and decentralisation of both organisation and services, and work is distributed across some employed staff and a number of volunteers" - The Rice model: "almost fully decentralised and volunteers provide almost all services"

Definitely to travel around the world is fun and entertaining, well maybe not for those people whose work require from them to do it on regular basis, being apart from friends and family in most of the time.

A Report by the Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development, Washington DC - 2009 - includes definition of OER, issues re copyright, trends

What Is Standardization and Localization?. Standardization and localization are two of the most important processes of global business. Even though there is no connection between the two processes, as one happens independently of the other, they both became a crucial part of business when trade reached a global scale. This is because companies now...

An open educational resource modeling how to write an open educational resource... by having you read it and learn from it at your own pace you can write your own OER unit.

Intro with learning outcomes; Definition of open learning and OERs; Planning an OER unit; Creating an OER; Pedagogy inc social constructivism; Communicating; Evaluating open learning