A thorny issue here related to contribution just in the case of higher education textbooks in the USA (obviously there are lots of other cases to consider): Currently, most US EDU textbook "contributions" are given to commercial publishers from individual students in the form of money (although shaped by instructor and institutional choices). To reshape this contribution flow, EITHER we need mechanisms for students to contribute directly to OER efforts (like SUNY's OER Services model, SLCC's OER course fee model, models where students actively create/revise OER materials via "renewable assignments", and others), AND/OR we need to shift contributions away from students and toward — most likely — institutions (like Tidewater CC's Increased Tuition Revenue (INTRO) model and others).

I'm keeping a running list of other works that I've come across that respond to the CARE Framework in the Zotero Open Knowledge Practices library under the tag "careframework". Reply to this annotation to add more (or you can contact me with suggestions or to join the Zotero OKP group).

Note: in Zotero you can open Library Settings at the upper right to show other columns in the list, like date (of publication), and then sort by exposed columns.

So maybe like we ask vendors to provide VPATs for accessibility, we might ask commercial OER vendors how they serve the CARE Framework?

Inclusion is a benefit for the including community, not just for the newly included.

I would also add revise here, as copying and sharing OER is even more powerful when one can do so in a format that supports revision.

This is where the Retain of 5Rs comes in strong.

I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that adapting mechanisms from the way citations are handled and valued in research and scholarly publication might help make attribution both something people do and benefit from more regularly.

Yes! And shifting focus away from OER as a collection of artifacts towards OER as the results of interactions between people, content and tools.

Defining predominant commercial content/tools business models.

Include "retain"? It's hard to reuse, adapt or share without rights to retain.

CARE's goal

Perhaps the most succinct statement of the core issue.

Again, maybe we should include "open educational practices" here so as to focus on related practices as well as collections of artifacts.

We might include "open pedagogies" or similar in this list.

Or given that CC sits on a foundation of traditional copyright and has multiple flavors, maybe something like: "under specific rights granted beyond the basic "all rights reserved" of standard copyright.

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See annotations on the original CARE Framework post.

See annotations on the original CARE Framework post.

See annotations on the original CARE Framework post.

See annotations on the original CARE Framework post.

See annotations on the original CARE Framework post.