benefits and challenges of using open educational resources

What are the Benefits and Challenges of Using OER?Jill D. Flansburg, Ph.D.

Assignment 7

due April 28, 2014

What is OER?

The OERs – Open Educational Resources by intheacademia is licensed under CC BY 4.0

What are the benefits of using OER?

Lower cost to students by using free materials

Governor O'Malley Speaks at College Tuition Rally at Lawers Mall by Maryland GovPics is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Sharing knowledge with other educators to build resources

Knowledge sharing by Ewa Roskosz is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

More choices for classroom activities, videos, etc.

29/52 choice paralysis by Lauren Macdonald is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Automatic permission to use many resources

Open Access promomateriaal before and after training by bibioteekje is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Materials available for review by a number of professionals

PeerReview of curricula by Nicole Quek is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

What are the challenges to using OER?

No guarantee as to the usefulness of the material

Quality Control by Se Bon is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

Unknown whether the resource will always be available

Unknown Error by Charleston-and-Itchy is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Some educators are territorial of resources or unaware

Threat Eliminated by KhaotixDemon is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Some licenses are non-revocable

No Can Do by Rex Morache is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Looking for suitable free resources can be time consuming

Help Font Text Note Black Protection Infinity by Geralt is licensed under CC0 1.0

So the decision to use OERs is up to you

How To Make Good Decisions by 1Reservoir is licensed by CC BY 4.0

Thank You!

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