Navigating OER: The Library’s Role in Bringing OER to Campus #LiDA103 In this article, the authors explore some of the challenges involved in garnering buy-in from their Faculty to transition from deeply seated and well-established partnerships with publishers in favour of OER, which at the time, was unfamiliar territory for many of their Faculty. I was particularly interested in this article because the institution at which I work is at a very similar stage in terms of getting buy-in from the broader University community and I am looking for ideas that we can adapt at our institution. Amongst the challenges identified by the authors were - the seemingly unstructured organisation of OER's on multiple sites and platforms possible incompatibilities between different software to support a seamless remix of content from multiple sources. For example, remixing content from Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF encouraging members of Faculty to engage wi...
Popular posts from this blog
Berne Convention Having just completed reading the Berne Convention, methinks a reread of the Australian Copyright Act might now be in order. There is so much latitude in the provisions of the Berne Convention for jurisdictions to apply their own interpretations and then enforce through legal processes. It seems to me that the harmony that was perhaps the initial intent of the Convention has been progressively lost over time through the assertion of self interest groups.#LiDA103
Nice and neat blog, Catherine.
ReplyDeleteI chose Wordpress for my LiDA103 course, and am not entirely satisfied with it, especially with the regular promptings from the company to upgrade or buy its products.
Blogger looks much more pragmatic and manageable.
Thank you. I had a look at WordPress and it looked a bit too complicated for me. Blogspot is easy to use and not too busy.
DeleteAgree with you, Catherine. Blogger looks more functional and straightforward.
DeleteI note that you are engaged in copyright coordination; this course will be a breeze for you then.
Being involved in publishing, I am ashamed to realise how little I know about open licensing, and finding this course really relevant and useful.