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Jöran Muuß-Merholz

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  • Open educational resources (OER) have been on the cusp of arriving for more than 15 years, but somehow they never do. So what’s the holdup?
  • Teachers Aren’t Onboard—With Good Reason
  • Back in 2012, when OER were more than a decade old,
    • Jöran Muuß-Merholz
      Jöran Muuß-Merholz on 04 Jun 18
       
      the IDEA of OER was 10 years old
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  • Unlike Wikipedia, Yelp, and Airbnb, most OER websites have failed to attract a large and active audience
  • search OER Commons, Curriki, Amazon Inspire, OpenEd, or any number of other open-source education sites.
  • if districts follow this path, the discoverability problem may never be solved, a
  • products that allow users to access OER as well as proprietary content
  • Teachers Pay Teachers, which has been around since 2006, paid out about $100 million across the 3 million resources on the site in 2017
  • So a vital aspect of the sharing economy—the idea that everyone is a content creator—does not seem to be panning out for OER.
  • So will we ever get to a Wikipedia-type model of teaching resources,
  • After nearly two decades, it’s still too soon to tell when, how—or even if—OER’s moment will arrive for K–12 education.
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