Sustainability is a fundamental requirement to ensure long-term viability of open educational resource (OER) initiatives. To afford technology upgrades and author costs, most of the existing initiatives are heavily reliant on continued funding; limiting OER models to invest in commissioned works. User-generated resources come as a solution to this problem, although a fairly novel concept to the area of child literacy. Consequently, there is little evidence available in earlier literature on their use for education. With online platforms such as social media and gaming sites encouraging users to collaborate and create original content, user-generation is a potential instrument for circumventing costs and achieving rapid dissemination of works. However, it also presents a significant downside – questionable quality. This paper discusses the use of user-created OERs for literacy, exploring the quality and sustainability implications that arise from this creation method and the measures undertaken by an Indian organization to overcome the same.

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用户生成的内容对开放式教育资源可持续性的影响

可持续性是确保开放式教育资源（OER）计划的长期可行性的基本要求。为了承担技术升级和作者的费用，大多数现有计划在很大程度上依赖于持续的资金投入。限制OER模型投资委托工程。尽管儿童扫盲领域的概念相当新颖，但用户生成的资源可以解决该问题。因此，在早期文献中几乎没有证据表明它们可用于教育。随着社交媒体和游戏网站等在线平台鼓励用户进行协作并创建原创内容，用户生成是规避成本并实现作品快速传播的潜在工具。但是，它也存在很大的缺点-质量可疑。