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Technology for creation and self-expression has become one of the defining features of the increased availability of ICT in today's society.  OER further facilitates this creativity and expression. The power of OER is in its re-use by others, creating a rich learning environment. You benefit from OER, by being able to access a variety of resources for your various learning and teaching needs. Likewise, it is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others (for further re-use or re-purposing), to sustain a virtuous cycle of receiving-giving ('''access->create->publish->access''').   

In the previous chapters of this toolkit, you have accessed existing text, image, audio and video OER from the Web, to create and re-purpose OER. You have so far retained your OER in  your personal digital library, in your own computer. This is accessible only to you. However if you publish your OER on the world wide web, it will be available to anyone, any time. Publishing content on-line is making available a copy of your personal digital library on the the web, which is like a global digital library.   

It is also important for you to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (including by improving their accuracy or comprehensiveness or by contextualising them or by translating them), and publishing the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing is also a virtuous cycle ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''') that can make it easier for others to get OER that they want.   

''The power of OER is in its re-use,'' for various learning and teaching needs. It is important for you to publish the OER you create, so that it is available to others for re-use or re-purposing, to sustain a ''virtuous cycle of receiving-giving'' ('''access->create->publish->access'''). It is also important to access existing OER, revise them to make them more valuable (including by improving their accuracy or comprehensiveness or by contextualising them or by translating them), and publish the revised OER. Such re-purposing and publishing is also a ''virtuous cycle'' ('''access->re-purpose->publish->access''').   

 

You can publish your content in one of two ways (or both):  

You can publish your content in one of two ways (or both):