OER Assignment 7-1

1. OER Benefits and
Challenges
Danielle Ritter M.Ed
Tacoma Community College
OER 101, Winter 2015
Assignment 7-1

2. OER Defined
• OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that
permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational
resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks,
streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support access to knowledge.
• What is OER? By The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is licensed under CC BY 3.0 US

3. Benefits• Save Money
• Help with Preparation and Retention of Material
• Encourage Collaboration about Best Practices
• Allow Quality Resources to be Available to all
• Support the Belief of Education forAll
Collaborate by Brendeurus is licensed CC BY-NC-SA

4. Challenges
• Time Consuming
• Maintaining the resources for help at the school
• Understanding the options for Licenses or how to useOER
• Preparing an adjunct for a class
• Difficulty withTechnology: giving credit, hyperlinking, finding the
conditions, recognizing and Open Domain
Arrow Set (Future) by mystica is in the Public
Domain CC0 1.0 Universal

5. Thank you
Any Questions?
Danielle Ritter