benefits and challenges of using open educational resources
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Benefits and challenges of using Open Educational Resources, using all OER materialsTRANSCRIPT
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!
Images and videos searched at
Open Professionals Education Network CC Search
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Pixabay
Open Clip Art Library
Fotopedia
YouTube with a Creative Commons filter