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

Fri Apr 25 15:03:32 UTC 2014

I'd doubt an OER production cost FOI would work, as you have to hold the
data, and this feels like it would need someone to go and do a survey (this
is based on my FOI knowledge). I'd imagine it'd also be commercially
sensitive. An academic might have old OER (in theory paid for), and then
opt to make it open. What would that cost?

MOOC teams will be given budgets though, so you could ask about those (and
might get it)

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Marieke Guy <marieke.guy at okfn.org> wrote:

>  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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