A wide range of individuals and organizations are actively involved in the development of free-to-use open educational resources (OER). Partly because the field is so new, there have been few opportunities to share learnings and advances within and across projects and boundaries. Little is known, for example, about how projects are facilitating the adaptation of open content by diverse users, what structures they are instilling to support peer production, and how they are attempting to inspire community engagement.
ISKME is working with six projects to help them build capacity to track, analyze and share key developments in the creation, use and reuse of open educational resources (OER), and in the practices and models that play a role in project sustainability. The aim is to enable projects to discover unknown or untapped potential, facilitate decision making around which practices to change and which to maintain, learn how other OER projects have overcome similar challenges, and advance the field at large by contributing new knowledge which others can build upon.
