In a post from a couple weeks back, Brian Lamb reminds us of the simple side of openness. With openly published content and a custom search engine, you are well on your way to the simplest form of open sharing. As Brian notes,
The technology cost is negligible … What is required (in addition to Google’s scary hegemonic presence providing a powerful platform) is openness. The resources need to be indexed on the open web, and when people do cool stuff and then blog about it, others can take the work to unexpected places.
Brian links to Tony Hirst’s OER custom search which we mentioned previously and notes the similarly simple OER Dynamic Search Engine started by Scott Leslie. Within Scott’s OER Dynamic Search Engine wiki, search for content in the existing listed sites on the wiki or contribute a new link to the list by following these deliciously simple steps.
Got a new site? Log in as username: edtechpost_guest (same password) and add it to the list. Simple, eh?
Simple side of openness … indeed!
