New Framework Offers Way to Validate OER Commitment -- THE Journal

"A new report proposes a framework by which open educational resource initiatives — and particularly those promulgated by for-profit organizations — can be measured. "Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship" has three purposes according to its authors: to help make sure "the OER community's values can be maintained as the movement scales"; to gauge the practices of "new entrants" to the OER field (especially those out to make money from it); and to build educator confidence in participating in OER, including those who contribute their own materials and may be uncertain regarding its use by for-profit publishers.

The CARE framework, as it's called, is applicable to all OER stakeholders — or "stewards," as the framework refers to them. Those include individuals, schools and affiliated organizations, both nonprofit and for-profit...."