As usual, David Weinberger get’s it:
Less-than-perfect open courseware is a zillion times better than no open courseware. And we’re just beginning this. Open courseware shall change, as well as it shall also modification how courses are taught in the real world. Here comes atomization, the Long Tail, network effects, backchannels, and, OMG, spam as well as undoubtedly porn as well as …
And, evoking the theme of abundance that I often utilize to structure my keynotes around:
The an estimated all obvious missing piece has to do with metadata. Right now, there's a relative scarcity of open courseware, so sites like iBerry aggregate the known offerings. But, as recording as well as posting courses becomes the norm, we shall have the difficulties of abundance. And then we’ll desire the usual — as well as perhaps some unusual — ways of filtering to find exactly the courses we desire to invest in. [...] We require tags, ratings, reputation systems, trust mechanisms, social networks, as well as ways to talk with our fellow auditors. And the sites that do this on behalf of us well shall take on some of the role, value, authority, as well as standing of universities themselves.
As David anticipates:
(And now y’all get to tell me about all of the sites I’ve missed that do exactly that already.
Indeed! We harvest metadata from networks of repositories as well as manufacture them available on behalf of facetted browsing. Other folks manufacture the same metadata available in their specific sites on behalf of schools or architecture. And we’re working on integrating social features.

Actually, you may be working on similar issues - you still have some time to prepare an article on behalf of our special issue on “Open Educational Resources: Learning Objects for all!“. Abstracts due in two weeks, full papers by March 1…

BTW, David really gets metadata too: “Everything is miscellaneous” is required reading!