Didn't Dave White's work on impact point to this very problem -- the iceberg analogy? The "stuff" is there, but unless we can show people are using the stuff, then just having a count doesn't give us much. Borges has a short story about a library where there is every book ever written, along with every variation and every rebuttal, but no one can get in or out of the library;)
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From: Open Educational Resources [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of David Kernohan [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 14 November 2012 14:41
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Subject: Re: End of programme, now what?
Hark unto Phil, for he speaks truth to humankind.
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:28:25 -0000, Phil Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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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