What are the preferred technical formats for open educational resources?
There are too many perfectly reasonable technical formats for us to make any specific recommendations. However, we are hoping that the community will create an information site where members can discuss and rate the appropriateness of different formats for the different contexts in which they might be applied. In addition, there are some planned meetings among community members which will address this issue more carefully. Regardless, the raison d’être of open educational resources (OER) is to allow easy access. Resources should be presented in a way that makes every effort not to exclude, or impose extra difficulties on, the user with a disability, the teacher or student who lacks a particular software or hardware system, or the person whose community has limited technological resources or poor or intermittent connectivity. In order to fulfill their unique promise for customization, distributed innovation, and collaboration across time and cultures, open educational resources also nee
