Talk point: Why don't more academics use open educational resources?

"Monday 3 October, at the #OpenDataLDN meet-up, organised by the Open Knowledge Foundation, I sat in a group led by Javiera Atenas, an academic at the University of Hertfordshire, on open educational resources (OER) and marvelled at the number of tools that existed to facilitate resource sharing. The event was organised as an opportunity to discuss ideas and developments around #opendata and open knowledge projects – ranging from open governance to data journalism....But just as I started to beam with pride at how open the sector was, Javiera put a spanner in the works: all these tools may exist but academics are not using them, and perhaps worse, HE management see little value in them. She explained that, counter-intuitively, academics were happier to share their research on the open web but when it came to teaching resources, their prevailing attitude is: "Hands off my PowerPoint!" ..."