Content Creation and

Open Educational Resources

Graham Attwell

the creation of open source software and development tools. the creation and provision of open course content and the development

of standards and licensing tools

“Openness is the core

paradigm of content, tools and services in Web 2.0 digital environments”

Dimensions of openness:

easy discovery(re)use

‘learnability’community

OERs have been very successful

but there remain many challenges

and issues

Take up and use of OERs is limited: reuse even more so

Teachers and learners are still

seen as consumers of content who

primarily want to download

materials

rather than participants

in communities of practice

This means providing a means for active involvement with the content

Managing learning

Facilitating interaction

Empower users -

encourage (co)creation

Support individual content

creators and communities of practice with

useful tools and services

Make licensing of content as easy as possible

Allow for easy discovery and

access to reosurces

support the creation of rich metadata and

provide semantically

enhanced access to resources

develop an ecology of Open Educational Resources

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