And those who are creating materials to share with others are probably going to be people I will like.

BUY anything. It’s all free.

incredibly tech-impaired. . . And it’s hard work to learn to use new methods.

see you struggling to learn.

like to develop my own materials!!!!

4. I don’t develop my own laptop, or my own pens, or my own white boards. So I guess I do borrow and build on other’s work.

Really? Don’t you work hard to impress upon students the need to borrow and

to cite others’ work? Shouldn’t you know the best methods

for borrowing, crediting, and building on materials that others openly share?

And isn’t it possible that your students will be using OER in their academic lives?

5. YES, YES, YES, and YES

Learning the use of OER is a lot of work.But I will save time overall.

I won’t be able to say I wasn’t 100% sure if I needed to check the license on that picture I just borrowed.I always felt a bit sheepish using that excuse.

OER sets me up to move even more of what I do online—and I don’t think I will ever believe that online learning is as good as F2F.Students like to be online, they will be there with or without me, and OER materials will make that experience more effective—especially since my own approach has not done enough to incorporate videos and images

barely will