Yes we are - thank for the heads up Phil and for the pointer to contentID, Pat.
We are planning on exploring alternative business models together with publishers, and are keen to collaborate with the other UKOER projects involved in working with publishers to get the most utility possible. I think Megan has already sent a message to this list to that effect.
I think it is fair to report back that the first partner meeting for PublishOER went extremely well, and a subsequent visit by one of the Elsevier team to Newcastle could not have gone better. The willingness to look to new ideas for future business is palpable, and already as we have seen some publishers are dipping their toes in the water of more interactive models, and are keen to talk about how we can liberate content to enhance teaching.
We are all very excited by the prospects and are keen to see and share what our colleagues are doing elsewhere, the technical challenges will be particularly interesting (through things like OER hack days) as I suspect (as is usually the case with these things) that those parts of our projects will be relatively easily solved, with the cultural, political and economic challenges posing the greater barriers.
Watch this space.
All the best
Suzanne
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On 12 Dec 2011, at 21:18, Pat Lockley wrote:
Hello all,
Saw this
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/12/youtubes-real-pirates-multi.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag+(Boing+Boing)
Which is about nasty big companies claiming rights to public domain
content, boo hiss and everything.
Then I thought I'd look into contentID, as I'd never heard of it.
http://www.youtube.com/t/contentid
Which might seem interesting as a way of tracking reuse / remix of OER.
Wondered if anyone else was doing this?
Pat
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