Final assignment for OER course detailing benefits and challenges.

1. OPEN EDUCATION
RESOURCES
from an advising
perspective
By Katrina Anaya

2. BENEFITS
 No budget, no problem!
 Open Education Resources are free to use
 Available 24/7
 You and your students can access them online at any time
 Adaptable
 Many let you change the resource to fit your student population
 Easy to create your own
 Contribute to the field by licensing and creating your own OER
Learning styles
 You can find resources in a variety of formats

3. CHALLENGES
 Where to start?
 There are so many resources out there, it can be hard to know where to start
 Time
 To put together some good materials for students, you will need to spend a good
chunk of time
 Sources
 It might be difficult to asses the quality or accuracy of OER
 Awareness
 Before this course, I didn’t understand OER, so you might have to educate your
co-workers
 Uncertain future
 Many OER projects were started with funding that might not continue