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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"

Open social networking for faculty - connect with recognized leaders in a discipline and collaborate with peers through virtual Guest Lectures

Co-founded by open education visionary Dr. David Wiley and education technology strategist Kim Thanos; finding quality content and mapping it to course learning outcomes; incorporating OER into academic strategy and curriculum decisions via consulting services; faculty training services; analytics and other outcomes to maximize student success

Great picture of David Wiley & Stephen Downes at their summit at Open Education 2009. Includes link to the .mp3's on Stephen's blog. Nice illustration of how two people can be committed to roughly the same goal, but come at it from very oppositional positions.