David Wiley has posted a response to criticisms of Sean Duncan’s dissertation on reuse within the Connexions repository (original OEN article, OEN article linking to one critique). He responds to “apologists” who would suggest that much of the OER reuse isn’t readily trackable by comparing it to the “dark matter” concept in Astronomy. From the article:
Rather than accepting the message of data which indicate that reuse is occurring only very infrequently, the apologists imagine an unobservable space offline in which reuse must surely be occurring. With the irrational zeal of the too often caricatured believer, members of the Church of Reuse seem rather resilient in the face of data.
Stephen Downes commentary on Wiley’s post.
