Thieme Hennis, Wim Veen, Ellen Sjoer. The Future of Open Courseware; A Case Study. In World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2008. 2008. [doi]
In 2007, Delft University of Technology started Delft OCW (Open Courseware), a project with the objective of publishing educational resources online. This paper focuses on the future of this project, and describes the results of the research on its sustainability. The advice includes (i) the development of a more decentralized environment for Open Educational Resources (OER), (ii) the involvement of other OER projects, educational institutes, private organizations, and end-users, (iii) the management and support of this environment through tools and protocols, and (iv) deploying various business and revenue models to address the full potential of the project.