Wider die Ordnungsphantasien! Argumente gegen ein zentrales Verzeichnis für OER

Google English: "Arguments against a central directory for OER.

Time and again there is a demand in the debates about OER: "There has to be a central platform. A place to go if you are looking for OER or want to publish yourself. "The demand is understandable if you keep the mess around Open Educational Resources in mind. There is an unmanageable number of offers. The materials are of varying quality and sometimes of questionable senders. You do not know much and do not find it at all or only by accident. Everyone uses their own systematics and their own terminology. OER is a big mess! Would not it be nice if someone would clean up?

The longing for order and uniformity is understandable. But the price for a central platform would be high..."