Ellaway, R. & Martin, R. D. (2008). What's mine is yours - open source as a new paradigm for sustainable healthcare education.

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Ellaway, R. & Martin, R. D. (2008). What's mine is yours - open source as a new paradigm for sustainable healthcare education. Medical Teacher 30, 175-179. DOI: 10.1080/01421590701874058.

Use of the internet as a resource sharing medium is invaluable. However allowing individuals to use your information or to use the information produced by others creates liability issues.

In this article, the authors discuss the creation of an open source website where educators can share the tools they have produced. Additionally, all sharing is free and revisions, adaptations, and reworking of the original programs are encouraged.
Sharing back and forth is a great way for educators to not only develop curriculum but also adapt lessons already produced, reducing prep-time and increasing educator to student time.

In an open-share environment the liability issue of copyright infringement is removed, as all submitters to the open share site agree to share openly their content.