benefits & challenges of using open

educational resources for faculty

LaRita Montgomery Mandley, Facutly-Computer Applications 2015

open educational resources (ore)

Reference: http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/10/29/two-thirds-of-faculty-unaware-of-open-education-resources.aspx

LaRita Montgomery Mandley, Facutly-Computer Applications 2015

benefits of using oerO Open Educational Resources (OER)

encourage adaptability enabling users to grow

O Faculty: Use openly licensed materials to build your own resources

O Promote your work to a global audienceO Students: Provide supplemental learning

materials for coursesO Better prepared for classesReference: Open Educational Resources: Benefits for Faculty and Students by Gideon Burton CC: BY-SA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/w.0 website: http://open.umich.edu/sites/default/files/3659/PDFs/OER-benefits-handout.pdfLaRita Montgomery Mandley, Facutly-Computer

Applications 2015

challenges of using oerO Too many resources to choose fromO The number of resources is vast that it can

literally paralyze instructors and studentsO Educators don't have time to develop their

own course materialsO Lack of training on how to integrate OERs

into their classroomsO Faculty members just don't know about OER

Reference: http://campustechnology.com/articles/2012/06/26/4-challenges-for-oer-in-higher-education.aspx

LaRita Montgomery Mandley, Facutly-Computer Applications 2015

conclusion – thank you

Discovering Open Educational Resources has been an experience that I am glad I decided

to explore – I invite you to take the journeyI learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man or women is not he who does not feel afraid,

but he who conquers that fear.Nelson Mandela

Reference: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/over.html#rHq3dc4gARrYiUAR.99

LaRita Montgomery Mandley, Facutly-Computer Applications 2015