Karen Walton

Wallace State Community College

Hanceville, Alabama

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

THE

PROS AND CONS

BENEFITS OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL

RESOURCES

• Decrease student costs.

• Can help aide student learning by having various methods of delivery of content.

• Allows faculty to develop learning activities that are “outside of the box.”

• Showcase to a large population of instructors and facilitates peer-to-peer feedback.

• Promotes college, program, and course.

CHALLENGES TO USING OPEN

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

• Faculty adoption of resources.

• Lack of resources available for some topics (i.e.

Simulation).

• Initial increase in faculty workload when searching for

resources may decrease likelihood of faculty to use

those resources.

• Upkeep of resources to ensure quality.

• Credibility of resources