2. Benefits
•Cost of an education reduced
• Imagine how much money could be saved if
materials were OER!
• K-12, colleges, universities, life-long learners
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3. Benefits
•Communities of learners increased
• Imagine the collaborative efforts that emerge
because of the development of OER!
•Cultural diversity supported
• Imagine the doors opened for all types of
people who want to create OER!
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4. Benefits
• Creativity and choices unlimited
• Imagine the hundreds and hundreds of
resources that are available to users of OER
and then add the derivatives!
• Teacher motivation renewed
• Imagine the pride in creating and sharing work
product enhances the experience of teaching!
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5. Challenges
•Time-consuming to keep OERs up-to-date
•Broken links and locating URLs after time
•Information and knowledge changes
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6. Challenges
•Quality of materials not guaranteed
•Authority and accuracy needs to be
evaluated
•Possible for material to be biased
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