Since this post is three days old and 10 comments in I may be late to party. If OER is the dictionary, doesn’t that mean that there needs to be some representation through knowledge infrastructure projects, just a dictionaries exist? That’s not to say that we need some kind of single authoritative repository, but what’s wrong with people doing their best to present their own entries into the OER dictionary. Don’t give me the cash/power argument. I’ve talked with enough people who work for OCWs to know that this isn’t about the money or any sort of prestige.

I’m intrigued by the idea of a post-repository sort of world, but it seems necessary that we at least fix some of these representations of information and learning for later use. People don’t scale and I’m beginning to think that conversations do as well.