On 14/11/2012 13:37, Sarah Currier wrote:
> "I would be remiss to not express my misgivings" - which include the fact that it's harder to disambiguate a large number of resources with the same tag expressing different properties ("funded by UKOER" *and* "produced by member of UK OER community"), than to just have a new tag that expresses the new property.
And
On 14/11/2012 13:51, Jacqueline Carter wrote:
> ESRC (and possibly other research council) funded projects are required to submit an impact report 12 months after the funding ends. That's why I asked my question about does mapping OER to funding matter. I'm hearing no. That's fine - although as impact is so important for everything we do now I'm not sure I agree wholeheartedly with the consensus being reached via this list.
But I don't think it was ever the aim of the programme just to release a
number of resources, the aim was sustained release, "turning the tap on"
was one metaphor. So counting the number of resources is a poor way of
measuring its impact. Sustainability meant setting up processes so that
the effects would outlive the funding. I think of resources tagged as
UKOER as being those where release was facilitated (at least in part) as
a result of the programme not just those that were directly funded by it.
Phil
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