OER: Promise and Pitfalls

The Commonwealth of Learning has a new post on the “the promise and the pitfalls” of open educational resources. From the article:

One of the criticisms of OERs is around the issue of “information imperialism” – there is concern that OERs are largely created in the developed world and imposed on the developing world. Collaborative content development is considered by many to be a strategy to combat this problem.

Thanks to Tony Bates for the link.

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