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Define key questions/considerations the Open 2020 Working Group should address.

Who is missing? Work products?

Recommendation: Should these two topics be part of a future meeting, and our general deliberations?

 

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Sustainability

  • Models for generating, updating, maintaining content

  • What are the real costs of preparing an open course, open materials?

  • The content of the commons is often hosted on platforms that may or may not be sustainable

  • How to sustain the operations of programs and infrastructure we rely on: tools, licenses, services, platforms

  • How to create sustainable publishing models that remunerate authors and/or create ethical publishing models



Incentives

  • Authors: To generate content, to share it openly

    • Grants available only for making open content

  • Educators: To use open content

  • All: Rewards and recognition of efforts

  • Interim issue, because it fills in an area that is currently unsupported

  • Institutions: From governments to encourage them to adopt open practices; accreditation organizations; Enhanced reputations

Via Willem van Valkenburg:
University: Reputation, quality, innovation
Students: Cost reduction, accessibility, quality, flexibility, modern learning methods
Teachers: Career perspective, possibility to innovate, recognition for education effort, impact
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