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Ten years later: Why Open Educational Resources have not noticeably affected higher education, and why we should care
Kortemeyer, Gerd

PublishedFebruary 2013
JournalEDUCAUSEreview online

ABSTRACT
Key Takeaways

* Open educational resources made a dramatic appearance with the 2002 debut of MIT's Open Courseware initiative.

* In the roughly 10 years since, OERs have not noticeably disrupted the traditional business model of higher education or affected daily teaching approaches at most institutions.

* Four major hurdles seem the likeliest hindrances to adoption of OERs: discoverability, quality control, bridging the last mile, and acquisition.

* OERs could unify and advance the essentially disconnected developments in digital textbooks and MOOCs by establishing a global enterprise learning content management system.

Keywords EDUCAUSE · MOOC · OER CMS · OER costs · open textbooks

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