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Tom Gibbons
Seattle Colleges
Open Education Resources:
Benefits and Challenges

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Free for
students

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Low cost of
distribution:
carbon footprint

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Easily adapted
to multiple
platforms

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Revise and
remix

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All students have
materials on the
first day of class

7. Challenges:
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Inconsistent
quality

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Difficult to find
exactly what you
need

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Significant
effort to curate
materials

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Materials
frequently lack
critical context

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Disappearing
content