OECD Expert Meeting on Open Educational Resources
( 6 - 7 February 2006, Malmoe, Sweden )

Informal constribution (small groups) on Sustainability Issues :

/	Institutional model	Community model
Personnel costs :	Management : paid staff Content providers: paid or volunteers Size : moderate	Management : Volunteers Content providers: volunteers Size: from very small to very large
Content contribution by students :	not easy	easy
Syndication policies:	possibly not favorable, allow deep links ? and unofficial mirrors ?	generally favorable / in synergy with the blogs trend
Public relation costs	High	Low
Bandwidth management :	generally high bandwidth institutional sites + explicit mirrors or mirroring service like akamai ( eg MIT OCW ) if popular site	generally low bandwidth sites unless hosted at institutional or corporate sites. need for explicit mirrors and/or P2P if popular site
WWW server software & management :	Proprietary or Free software paid staff	Free software only volunteer or unexpensive staff
Direct Funding :	Institutional + opt. external	Volonteers + Foundations ( eg Wikipedia )
Conversion model funding	distance learning with good institutional credibility	advertisements ?, distance learning with lower credibility, pb. with diplomas

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