The ABC’s of Open

Educational Resources

ByTina Miller

Benefits•Affordable – Little or no cost

•Books Without Borders – Obtain information from experts around the world

•Creative – Present new ideas

•Demonstrate – Knowledge learned

•Evolving – Endless possibilities

Challenges• Attribution – Don’t forget to give proper credit

• Bewildering – Overwhelming amount of material to search through to find the right one

• Creative Commons – Do you have the right to share?

•Domain – Is it really Public?

• Energy – Time and effort spent searching and researching

Knowing Your ABC’s• Learning your ABC’s wasn’t easy at first.• Start, stop, start over, repeat, practice, practice, practice.

• Open Educational Resources is a new learning tool and it will take practice.

• But after you learn how it is as simple as – A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z