Thread by @opencontent

1/ "#OER isn’t the right solution for everyone; not every course has a viable OER textbook option." Quotes like this from Wired are such flabbergasting understatements that it's hard to tell what to do with them. wired.com/story/digital-…

2/ I recently estimated that there's a "viable #OER option" for less than 10% of the courses taught at a typical university. After 21 years and $100Ms of work on #OER. opencontent.org/blog/archives/…

3/ And for many courses, in order to be "viable", the #OER option MUST include a digital courseware solution that at a minimum automatically grades homework and quizzes and automatically syncs these with an LMS grade book. #LookingAtYouMath #AndAccounting ...

4/ There's an almost unimaginable amount of work left to do before all of #HigherEd can even consider transitioning to #OER. It's truly systems-level work that we are likely decades away from seeing in its first beta version. We have to think bigger.