Thread:Brainstorming! (9)

Using OER more narrowly may help the categorization. The big problem I see with stuff in WE
 * more or less finished / published with the expectation that it be used by others - learners, other instructors...
 * work in progress that may become OERs
 * personal notes, research and collection information, experiments, small group collaborative writing

I would like to see more adoption, reuse and remixing by educators other than those who created the OERs. As it stands it is very difficult to even know where to start looking in WE for well crafted OERs that are "ready to use". Most searches turn up fragments, stubs and sandboxes, and the searcher is discouraged or turned off. We need several mechanisms to ensure that the searches are more productive. Identifying OERs that conform to the OER Foundation definition is a good start.

Then how do we categorize the other stuff? Or is "OER" or "not OER" a good high-level categorization?

There need to be a couple of big, cross population groupings eg. animal, vegetable, mineral - so that just applying 2 or 3 of the big selection criteria yields a more specific set to research further.