1. Jennifer Olson-Rudenko
Benefits
&
Challenges
Open Educational Resources
Claude Monet, The Manneporte near Étretat, 1886, oil on canvas, 32 x
25 3/4 in. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) OASC
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/image-resources

2. Benefits
of
Open Educational Resources
• lowers the cost of educational
materials
• no permission required for the
use of educational materials
• provides free education to the
public
• ability to re-use of materials
• raises the standard of
educationAnton Raphael Mengs, Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768), c.
1777, oil on canvas, 25 x 19 3/8 in.
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) OASC
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/image-resources

3. • quality of educational materials
• availability of educational
materials for specific lessons
• updating educational materials
such as incorporating recent
scholarship in the field
• lack of understanding
• non-revocable nature of
Creative Commons licenses
Challenges
of
Open Educational Resources
Vincent van Gogh, L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux (Marie
Julien, 1848–1911), c. 1888–89, oil on canvas, 36 x 29 in,
(The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) OASC
http://www.metmuseum.org/research/image-resources