Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Education, and Why We Should Care (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views
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Particularly for OERs, the current type of static metadata is not a good fit: authors of OERs are notoriously negligent about filling out metadata fields. For free content, with few exceptions (notably MIT Open Courseware), there is no infrastructure for anybody else to do the cataloging. Thus, this type of static metadata is essentially useless, and educators cannot find the content they need.
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information is scattered, embedded into other contexts, or of the wrong granularity
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For content to be truly reusable and remixable, it needs to be context-free