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Thanks Debbie. Surely no bad thing that Open Ed is featured in the Horizon report. But I agree with Lorna that it does not quite paint a picture which feels familiar Eg SCORE was featured as alive and kicking. As to freedom from barriers to 'cultural sensitivities' I am also lost in the logic and meaning of the words much as I support the power that sharable OERs have to be adapted to be culturally appropriate. Alastair Sent from my iPad On 11 Feb 2015, at 16:01, Lorna Campbell <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On 11 Feb 2015, at 14:29, Holley, Debbie <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >> So here is todays discussion for you all – OR ‘stuff’ mid term 3-4 years – do you agree? See pp14/15 >> >> http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-HE-EN.pdf > > What struck me about reading this is that it’s an oddly retro view of OER and open education. Theres’s nothing particularly insightful about it. It rather strikes me that the point they’re predicting OER will be at in 3 years time is the point that UKOER was 3 years ago! > > A couple of specific points… > > "OER uses Creative Commons and alternative licensing schemes to more easily distribute knowledge, media, and educational resources, which guarantees that content is freely copiable, freely remixable, and free of barriers to access, cultural sensitivities, sharing, and educational use.” - I don’t really know what “free of barriers to…cultural sensitivities” really means, but it’s the first time I’ve seen this crop up in a definition of OER. > > "Experts point out that although the OER has solid footing in secondary schools, policies for higher education are scarcer due to institutional autonomy.” - I wish the experts referred to here had been cited. I can’t speak for other countries, but this doesn’t seem to hold true for the UK. > > I was surprised to see POERUP referred to in the section on Blended Learning as a project that "focuses on the integration of open educational resources in learning”. This rather seems to miss the point of POERUP and all the good work the project did in terms of developing policy recommendations. > > Also I wince every time I see MERLOT being referred to as an OER repository :} > > Cheers > Lorna > > > -- Lorna M Campbell -- > Assistant Director, Cetis > Web: www.cetis.ac.uk > Blog: lornamcampbell.wordpress.com > Mail: [log in to unmask] > Twitter: LornaMCampbell > Skype: lorna120768 > >