[Open-education] [Friday Question] Financial Support for OER Open Education list?

Fri Apr 25 12:06:26 UTC 2014

Hi Raniere,

For those who haven't read the emails the background to the discussion 
on the open science list is that they carried out a Freedom of 
Information request on journal subscriptions in Univerisities.

Could such a request be carried out on OER costs? What costs would we be 
looking at? The cost of creating materials - this should be possible to 
find - the cost of the creation of a MOOC could be declared. Or are we 
looking at the costs that OERs save? This is of course a much harder 
figure to find out.

I think the OER Research Hub at the Open University have carried out 
some research in to 'use' which may possibly translate in to savings 
http://oerresearchhub.org

OER programmes are another area of interest. Have people seen the POERUP 
site? It's a wiki which people can edit details of their countries OER 
policy http://www.poerup.info

Marieke

On 25/04/2014 12:52, Raniere Silva wrote:
> Folks from open-science mail list start to talk [1] about how much money are spend
> to get access to close journals. They already post some information about
> Netherlands [2] and Brazil [3].
>
> - How much are spend at your country with closed educational resources? I know
>    that this is hard to find but even a lower approximation could be useful.
> - Do your country has any program to support OER? How they manage it?
>
> Thanks,
> Raniere
>
> [1] https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/20140424/003234.html
> [2] https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/20140425/003244.html
> [3] https://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/open-science/20140425/003246.html
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