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It feels that there's is a big disconnection between
innovative / trendy areas of open education and the coal-face
work of outreach and implementation. I guess that's the
conclusion of the article above. I'd be interested to know
more about projects working to address this.
I feel there
is a real problem with statements like this though.
Are
innovative / trendy areas not also implementation? Are they
not "coalface" enough? Seems the use of coalface suggests a
criticism that other work isn't proper work?
If the
argument is, a lot of academia tends to theory and not
praxis, that's true in almost all parts of it. OER research
will be no different. Inevitably as research tends to need
to be new to be published or funded, academia will
inherently move on to new areas, MOOCs being one. OER
research, where funded is obvious to meet certain funding
aims or goals, so the area in which that work is applied may
not give time or scope for engaging and outreach.