Erica Hargreave (StoryToGo / Ahimsa Media / BCIT / UBC), Lori Yearwood (StoryToGo / Ahimsa Media), Kevin Ribble (StoryToGo / Ignite / BCIT)
As open educational resource creators continue to struggle to find funding and maintenance solutions for their open educational resources, the newly proposed Web Monetization Standard presents a potential new solution and funding source moving forward, to allow educators and creatives to build sustainability behind their projects and the open educational resources that they craft. (Parameswaran, 2020). The Web Monetization standard is a new browser API standard that allows for the generation of a payment stream from the user directly to the website being viewed (Melendez, 2019). Thanks to Grant for the Web (a fund created with the support of Coil, Mozilla, and Creative Commons), 2020 / 2021 has seen a fair bit of growth in the Web Monetization ecosystem with the development of new Web Monetized platforms, search engines, research papers, solutions to Web Monetize mainstream platforms, and projects utilizing Web Monetization as a funding source.
As a Grant for the Web recipient, the StoryToGo team has been researching and experimenting with the Web Monetization Standard, as well as interviewing other creatives and educators with regards to how they are utilizing the Web Monetization Standard to build sustainability around their creations. From this work, they are building an open educational course on the Web Monetization Standard for Creators and Educators. This asynchronous open course will cover: what the Web Monetization Standard is and the ethos behind it, the landscape of Web Monetization providers and platforms, how creators and educators can get started in utilizing Web Monetization on their projects to build towards sustainability, and an overview of how different creators and educators are utilizing the Web Monetization Standard to build towards sustainable funding for their projects, including in the production and maintenance of open educational resources.
Extended abstract: OE_Global_2021_paper_102.pdf š
Activity Details
UNESCO OER Action Area: Sustainable OER
Format: Asynchronous Interactive Activity
Language: English
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