I was musing about how to represent OCEP on a poster for the forthcoming OEER Programme Meeting. I use Mindmapping quite a lot for thinking about the structure of problems. It does not always work for me, but in this case it turned out to be a little bit more than a way of grouping things together. When I started to add a few relationships in I came to a familiar conclusion. The key success issue is what is in OER to persuade individuals to deposit resources? In another life I still do a bit of economics (nowadays I am very interested in behavioural economics) and perhaps the map refelects that interest. Behavioural economists believe than incentives shape all behaviour. So the question turns out to be - if people are fundamenatally selfish than what incentives are there for them to act in the collective good? A bit like bankers and knighthoods perhaps.

The mindmap can be seen here.