2. Benefits
• Lower cost to students
• A gateway for instructors to share and collaborate
• Renowned institutions participate (high quality)
• Expand instructor knowledge and perspective
• Sharing knowledge beyond borders
• Suggest the possibility of new ways of teaching beyond textbooks
• An avenue to share work
• An avenue to obtain feedback
3. Challenges
• Difficult and time-consuming to locate materials depending on topic
• Inconsistent tone, coherence, unity of collected materials
• Imposition on teacher time
• Professional development cost
• Production vs. consumption of material
• Quality and accuracy of sources
• Authority and credibility of sources
• Sustainability
• Irrevocable CC license
• Not personalized or customized to unique environments
• Content over process (what are the students doing/learning?)
