OER creation

Content is fundamental when creating OERs. In order for a resource to fully fulfill the purpose it was created for, it is first necessary to ask the following key questions:

“For whom is the given resource being created?” or

“Who are its users intended to be?” 

These questions, although they might seem trivial, are decisive to the whole subsequent path of the OER. Topics can be processed in order to accommodate the diverse information needs of students ranging from basic schools to doctoral studies. However, it is necessary to select a target group in advance, and therefore it is not easy to create a resource for everyone without causing a detriment to quality in the sense of the usability of the given resource for specific educational needs. In order for a resource to meet the fitness for use definition of quality, the intent of its creator is crucial. 

Fitness for use = assessing the quality of given information is individual and always dependent on the context and purpose that the information fulfills. 

An important area in terms of content is the issue of OER content quality. For more on this, see the chapter on quality.