Benefits & Challenges of Open Educational Resources (OER)
By Andrea Lupson
Benefitsof OER
Just to name a few
A Few Benefits
• Reusability of materials• Helps prepare for course retention (and
retaining knowledge afterwards)
• Wider availability of academic content and focus on the learning experience with a variety of choices.
• Access to quality choices
A Few More Benefits
• Using OER’s, the cost for materials goes down significantly for everyone (teachers, students, parents, etc.)
Another Benefit
A few Excellent Sources for OER• http://www.openwa.org/find-oer/
• http://www.oeconsortium.org/courses/
• https://www.oercommons.org/
OERCHALLENGESJust a few to mention
Challenges
• Quality Assurance of information• Sustainability of OER (funding)• Non-revocable nature of CC licenses
Once someone’s received an item from OER they can use it.
More Challenges
• Finding exactly what material you’re looking for. There might not be anything you can use,
causing you to make a “U-Turn” to find something else.
Or there might be too much to go though, making it hard to narrow down the most appropriate one.
Another Challenge
• Lack of public knowledge and understanding of OERs. They don’t know it’s out there!
Difficult Classes to find Specific OER related content (not impossible, but more difficult)
• Records Management • Introduction to Computers (IT 101)
What can we do to help?
• Put more information out there!• Let others know it exists!• Stay up-to-date with OER information/trainings.• And more!
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