Week 3 - Activity 10: Applying sustainability models

• Read Wiley (2007), On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resource Initiatives in Higher Education .
• Then look at the following open education initiatives, and for each one determine which of Wiley’s three models of sustainability you think they are operating:
  • Change MOOC 
  • Coursera 
  • Jorum 
  • OpenLearn
• Consider the following:
  1. Was the sustainability model for each OER initiative apparent?
  2. Did Wiley’s models cover all approaches or did you think a different model was operating for one or more of them?
• You can share these reflections in either the forum or in your blog.

Change MOOC 
8 month course. "Each week, a new professor or researcher will introduce his or her central contribution to the field."
Facilitators, George Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier
this course is not conducted in a single place or environment. It is distributed across the web.
Closest model match is the Rice model, apparent from the "About" and "How it works" links.
It's not clear if the facilitators are paid, seems like they are not.

Coursera 
Looks very much like the MIT model with founders and a "team". They advertise job positions on their website and so these must be paid positions. MIT model then. This seemed apparent, also from the quality of their website. Time, and therefore, money has been and is being spent to make a quality site and courses.

Jorum
Website looks like the USU or Rice model, probably USU.
Jorum is a Jisc funded Service in Development in UK Further and Higher Education, to collect and share learning and teaching materials, allowing their reuse and repurposing. Majority female team made up of more Chiefs than Indians, who do not seem to do anything concrete in editing or working on any courses content. Lacks the quality of MIT model and the funding. Most similar to USU but I cannot find reference to removing 3rd part content, but then I guess they do not need to as content is provided mostly by UK Uni's as is. Not same as Rice model since in that model individuals work on the courses worldwide.

OpenLearn
Budding MIT model. Paid from by OU but only supporting their own OU course content, unlike other models. This does not fall into any of the above models. A bit of each really. People within the OU build the course, OL promote and offer the course. Funding from OU and therefor paying students.