Benefits of Open Educational Resources

Guilt free access to already existing resources.

They are free.

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Benefits of Open Educational Resources

• Access to content materials that you don’t have to produce yourself.

• Access to potentially higher quality resources than are available locally.

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Benefits of Open Educational Resources

• They are searchable by topic to meet a wide variety of needs from images to texts and everything in between.

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Challenges of Open Educational Resources

• Free but labor intensive to find.

• Not many materials in my content area.

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Challenges of Open Educational Resources

• Have to have a certain level of technical savvy to access, attribute and modify.

• Variety of licensing attributions and providers can be confusing.

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Challenges of Open Educational Resources

• Not as much buy in as doing it yourself.

• Quality questions have come up with our faculty.

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