Document Type
Blog
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract
If you were to ask open education practitioners to list the most important issues confronting the movement at this moment, I doubt that they would say There just aren’t enough OER: many subjects in many disciplines have few or no OER available. I’m guessing folks wouldn’t mention this, simply because it is so obvious, and not a surprise given how new the OER ecosystem is, so that there simply hasn’t been time for all ofthose subjects to be covered. I’d like to propose a policy that educational institutions could adopt, or be compelled to adopt by regulatory agencies or legislatures, that would immediately expand the body ofavailable materials for OER and increase the rate at which new open materials are created. By a happy accident, my proposal would particularly increase open supplementary materials, and materials for primary and secondary schools.