Thread:Do we need a table or info on licensing? (6)

Agree with Seth's point 3 above (i.e. refer to the licensing section for explanations).

The coding and colour schemes are also good ideas which could be used on this page (and other pages listing resources).

Personally, I would prefer tables with a column for licensing which could contain a colour-coded icon/symbol/label etc.

Structuring the types of repositories in other ways (and ordering sections accordingly) is tricky.

Ideally, we should think of the educator-reader and the most typical usage scenario which could suggest the order of criteria?

Profile the educator:


 * Subject area (e.g. I am a physics teacher looking for ...)
 * Educational level (e.g. K-12 materials ...)
 * Something ready-made and complete (e.g. OCW full course, text book, reading materials, ...)
 * Something to incorporate or adapt (finer-grain) (e.g. image or other media file)

Licensing (like file formats and quality) is an important cross-cutting concern, but this is about finding resources.

This thought may have implications for the ordering of the sections:

Consider:


 * 1) Find your own resources
 * 2) Subject Based repositories:
 * 3) * Science repositories
 * 4) * Social science repositories
 * 5) * Humanities repositories
 * 6) General (OER) repositories
 * 7) Search Engines
 * 8) Open textbooks
 * 9) Individual project sites

This would work if the reality was that specialised repositories (i.e. by subject and edu level) are a better place to start than using general search engines.

(and many of the "general" repositories are aggregations of specialist areas - OCW, Wikiversity, ...)

So, at this point I do not have a strong opinion, but would be interested in what anyone else thinks. (Suggestion of something to consider for future editions?