Curtis Bonk has a feature article in eLearn magazine on openness. Bonk shares ten reasons for sharing from the perspective of institutions, instructors, and course designers as well as why potential learners might use OER. From the article:
…it is extremely difficult to deny the importance of OER and OCW at the institutional and organizational level. Administrators of higher education and training personal in corporate settings would be foolish not to consider it. However, the motivation to share educational content is also a highly personal and individually enriching matter. Not surprisingly, instructors, tutors, and course designers have specific reasons that they share their content. Many of them simply want to communicate with their colleagues. Other educators have an internal need to test the edges of technology. Still others desire to attract new students or help the ones that they have complete their courses.
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