Self attribution is an interesting thing – I found that I had to do it in my academic articles. If I didn’t self-attribute my images I would always get asked “where did you get this from?” … like I wasn’t capable of producing it myself? Like the ideas and artwork in the images had to be someone else’s? Anyways, I found the only way to avoid that type of feedback was to explicitly attribute all images to myself (which BTW – should be the default assumption where there is no attribution)! Makes me a wonder a little of whether this is a gender thing or does it happen to everyone in academia when they show a diagram of a conceptual framework or an illustration that shows how the rest of the article is structured?

Sorry, tangential rant.

I worry about OER privilege and how it isn’t talked about enough. How the people creating OER do so in part because they can afford to. And those that cannot afford to work for nothing have their voices squashed by those who already have privilege. And how that “free” textbook means that someone else’s book doesn’t get adopted. It makes me wonder if instead we should be focused more on supporting self-publishing and low-cost rather than no-cost resources. But of course what is low to one is not necessarily low to another and Maha has already talked about the cost of a $1.