Åpne læringsressurser

Rapporten gir en oversikt over det raskt voksende fenomenet åpne læringsressusrer (Open Eductaional Resources – OER) og hvilke utfordringer dette medfører for UH-sektoren. Rapporten studerer institusjoners motivasjon for å dele ressurser fritt, rettighetsproblematikk, bærekraft og forretningsmodeller, samt implikasjoner for politikkutforming.

I rapporten oppgis seks grunner til at institusjoner befatter seg med prosjekter knyttet til åpne læringsressurser:

• The altruistic argument that sharing knowledge is in line with academic traditions and a good thing to do
• Educational institutions (particularly those publicly financed) should leverage taxpayers’ money by allowing free sharing and reuse of resources
• Quality can be improved and the cost of content development reduced by sharing and reusing
• It is good for the institution’s public relations to have an OER project as a showcase for attracting new students
• There is a need to look for new cost recovery models as institutions experience growing competition
• Open sharing will speed up the development of new learning resources, stimulate internal improvement, innovation and reuse and help the institution to keep good records of materials and their internal and external use