The Repository Problem, IMHO, is it asks the creator of content to do more tasks (eg filling out forms) that is far from essential to them. Repositories are mostly of interest to the people that build them.

As an educator, I should focus on creating and sharing (yes Scott, that’s yor post) their primary materials– and let the content itself be in a form to be discoverable– wel described so crawlers can crawl it, open, licensed to share, etc

You might be surprised that I agree with you. But…

You shouldn’t be surprised since I’ve been saying this about “content” for a while (it presupposes that each of us come to our own resolutions about the “open debate” but the existence of that discussion doesn’t in any way preclude just putting stuff out there, as I also advocate)!

There’s a lot of room for improvement and innovation in the “anythings” that people can use. I can see the use of repository-like models and discrete community formation in specific circumstances, but in the end, when I talk about the products of open teaching and learning being the invisible hand, the currency, of a healthy environment, I’m not talking about repositories or even ideology, just putting stuff out there in whatever way works.