Sharing this with a disclosure up front: I work at ScholarRx, and UNESCO invited our team, with Charles Prober at Stanford, to author a policy brief in its Open Solutions series, titled Scaling Health Education through Open Educational Resources. It was independently peer-reviewed by David Atchoarena and Cathy Casserly.
Our own ecosystem appears in it as the case study, hybrid open/paid model and all, alongside a section on the limits of drawing policy conclusions from any single example.
https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000399306
For the OE Global Connect community, health professions education is a domain where OER adoption has lagged for reasons that aren’t the usual ones. One binding constraint is alignment with competency and accreditation frameworks, since content that isn’t mapped to them can’t enter a formal curriculum, however good it is.
The brief also takes on faculty incentives, quality assurance, interoperability, and the grant-cycle funding pattern that keeps OER positioned as a pilot rather than as infrastructure.
It’s published CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, so translation and adaptation are open to anyone here who wants to take them on. I’d be glad to help coordinate if there’s interest.
Two things I’d value from this group: critique of the sustainability argument, which is the part that everyone asks about, and pointers to comparable models in other professional fields.
thanks,
Jeff