“Can OER Really Impact Higher Education and Human Development?,” the nineteenth installment of the Impact of Open Source Software Series, was posted on February 1, 2008, by Christine Geith. Christine currently serves as an assistant provost and executive director of Michigan State University's MSUglobal 1 , which is the university's entrepreneurial business unit that works with academic partners across the campus and worldwide to develop online institutes, programs, and services. She is currently leading discussion around OER at her home institution. Thanks Christine for a great posting!
In her posting Christine posed a number of questions about the purpose and potential impact of OER. She sets-up her posting by posing some questions, which she later follows with some additional questions and links to resources. The lead for the posting is:
Open Educational Resources (OER) are rapidly growing and taking shape. What might it meanfor higher education? The movement holds promise for opening up access and improving thequality of higher education around the world. It could even create new types of universities.
Christine then points to the promises of online learning in the 1990's, asking if we haven't heard this before (hype)? That something on the horizon “ online learning in the 90s “ OER currently - provide the promise of access and quality. She then asks if OER can live up to its promise - citing examples of models intended to leverage the existence and creation of quality OERs to enhance access. Finally, Christine asks, “What is the problem we're trying to solve?” and follows the question with examples of blending formal and informal learning experiences. She concludes with a call for creative solutions and models to leverage the potential for online learning and OER to reduce the education access gap, while also pointing to the potential of formal as well as informal learning
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