Creative Commons is currently engaged in a project to look at open business models. They’ve put forth this template and have this community to share these ideas. Since I have been thinking about this as it relates to core curriculum
Open business models, part 5: development costs
In the first post of this series, I mentioned that most OER publishers rely on philanthropy to fund initial product development and that I had questions about how sustainable this model is. First, if more K-12 OER doesn’t achieve higher
Open business models, part 4: organizational structures
The amount and scope of work that I’ve suggested in the previous posts as being necessary to successfully implement an OER core K-12 curriculum is not trivial. Most OER publishers don’t have a full marketing team, a sales force, implementation
Open business models, part 3: some options
There are multiple ways an OER core curriculum product could generate revenue streams. One is through some kind of membership model through which states, districts, or other partners participate financially in the project in exchange for product development input, review
Open business models, part 2: a price
My main premise for an assortment of forthcoming business models is to position OER core curriculum product package as having a greatly reduced cost as opposed to being “free” and to use the proceeds to fund the work needed to