A Sustainable and Practical OER Model

Another interesting presentation from the Open Education 2009 conference. Christopher Mackie from the Mellon foundation proposed a sustainable and practical model for using open educational resources in higher education.

"The proposed talk will analyze some of the crucial incentive alignments that block sustainable OER on most campuses today, and propose one possible strategy for overcoming those alignments that, while unquestionably a major departure from current mainstream teaching practices, has the virtues of offering a sound pedagogical-philosophical foundation, a feasible migration strategy, and a set of institutional and individual incentives that may be attractive to Presidents and Provosts at several thousand higher education institutions in the US as well as other higher education institutions around the world."