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By: JohnR

JohnR — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:25:26 +0000

from @ambrouk: Cognitive surplus and oer: a response to bit.ly/py5nue by @KavuBob via magicmarker androidapp yfrog.com/h73atapj

By: @mossposs

@mossposs — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:39:48 +0000

Very interesting. I think this is about supply and demand to some extent. The funded projects have been necessary, i think, to promote the concept of oer and work out how best to do it (consent being the biggest issue for us clinical academics). So now there is stuff out there. So if you have created similar stuff, what’s the point in keeping it to yourself? you might as well add to the pool, and you should end up getting something back? Don’t think we are quite there yet, but my hope is that this is what will happen…..and yes, this is part of academic professionalism, I believe….

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 17:00:45 +0000

To me, if something exists and can be shared without costs to yourself then to do so is moral.

Everything else is secondary. We’ve shared everything we’ve done for Triton for example. Every last line of code.

By: dkernohan

dkernohan — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:51:04 +0000

Nice post John!

I’m wondering about rescuing the idea of scholarship here… surely scholarship *is* sharing, in that you learn from your peers and are judged by sharing your own work with your peers. Openness seems to sit better with classic models of scholarship and academia… maybe it’s the 21st Century reality of academic labour that’s out of step?