Martin Weller has posted on the difference between “big OER,” which are projects like MIT OCW, and “little OER,” that are individual projects. From the post:
I’ve come to appreciate the value of university generated OERs, because they help address the three factors I set out above and also because they have one crucial advantage over the sort of user-generated, web 2.0 resource listed previously, namely status.
Commentary by Stephen Downes. Link provided by Judy Baker.
