Sustaining Hype? Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) and Open Access Course Materials | Librarian unleashed

"At the University of Oslo, we are now half-way through our very first MOOC: What Works: Promising Practices in International Development , a six week course created by the Centre on Development and the Environment (SUM) in partnership with faculty at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford. So it was perhaps a bit premature of me to attend a panel session on Open Educational Resources for MOOCs, but the theme was interesting. It makes sense to use OERs in MOOC courses, you want the course material to be as 'open' and accessible as the course itself, but, as librarian Gene R. Springs could tell us, things are not that straightforward. He registered for 114 MOOCS available from the Coursera platform to find out how much of the course material was really 'open' and in accordance with David Wiley’s  5 r’s ... the content. As it turned out, only 22 of the 114 courses had material that could be considered 'free only', while the remaining courses contained material that to some extent had to be paid for ..."