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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?
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Back in 2012, when OER were more than a decade old,
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Unlike Wikipedia, Yelp, and Airbnb, most OER websites have failed to attract a large and active audience
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search OER Commons, Curriki, Amazon Inspire, OpenEd, or any number of other open-source education sites.
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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.
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Teachers Pay Teachers, which has been around since 2006, paid out about $100 million across the 3 million resources on the site in 2017
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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.