For educators making this change, there is a huge "letting go" component that demands an essential shift in who they are being, and who they want to be seen as. It's also similar to being the parent that starts to allow their children to move forward and make their own mistakes and choose their own path. Pretty scary stuff! The big difference (and this is huge), is our students may not have been given strong foundation when younger, like our children hopefully have. As an educator, I don't know if my students have learned discernment skills. My letting go of being the expert, and knowing best, can also feel like letting go of huge amounts of personal power, identity and substance. It might also feel like a betrayal of my responsibility as an educator. There is usually another component to this as our students often expect and want to keep us placed as the expert, which can make it harder for educators to make the shift.
Yes, I am having some of this feeling in relation to open educational resources. And yes, I do believe that students will evaluate and self-edit materials such as is done with Wikipedia AND I KNOW, if students are accessing information off the internet, it may not always be the best resource or even true. I simply have to trust that this will become evident within the larger group of students.
Lao Tzu said "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." I think this also works for contemporary educators.