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Rebecca Fernandez is a Principal Program Manager at Red Hat, leading projects to help the company scale its open culture. She's an Open Organization Ambassador, contributed to The Open Organization book, and maintains the Open Decision Framework. She is interested in the intersection of open source principles and practices, and how they can transform organizations for the better.
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...Because I know a few great professors who would love to transfer to such a place. :)
I imagine such folk exist, but most of the academics I know (from community colleges to Ivy League) work far more than 40 hours/week, between teaching, research, grading, student guidance, grad student advising, committees, conferences, travel, and publishing.
My suspicion about the lack of adoption of OERs is that it's human nature to think you can do something better than what's already out there. Maybe the first step is adopting and mashing-up and reposting OERs? Many have licensing that allows it, from what I've seen.
I do suspect there is informal adoption that happens, too. A prof may use lots of the sources listed in an OER and save time in course prep, for example.
I'd love to hear an update on how this is working when you have been doing it for a while. It seems like a great system for efficiency that still allows for disagreement and input.
(There's also that handy "Submit an article" link on the top right column of this page, and I bet your experience developing and implementing this would make a great topic... :)