5 benefits and 5 challenges about Open Educational Resources are presented.

1. BENEFITS & CHALLENGES
OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES (OER)
Stephen Coates-White
South Seattle College
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2. BENEFITS OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
1. Ability to create and share
Educators can develop, create, and share course
materials that suit their needs.
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3. BENEFITS OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
2. Cost
Educators can provide access to classroom materials at
free or low cost to students.
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4. BENEFITS OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
3. Added value to discipline
By sharing their resources freely, educators can add to
the body of knowledge within their discipline(s).
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5. BENEFITS OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
4. Sustainable
OER resources can be shared and downloaded an
infinite number of times.
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6. BENEFITS OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
5. Anti-corporate
OER is about sharing knowledge. It is of the people, by
the people, and for the people.
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7. CHALLENGES OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
1. Sharing of knowledge is equivalent to
teaching and learning
The work of educators may be commodified, and value
systems created around the minimization of education.
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8. CHALLENGES OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
2. Teaching may become less lucrative
Communities and societies may devalue education, its
institutions, and its educators even more with the false
equivalent that OER=teaching=learning.
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9. CHALLENGES OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
3. The potential exist for educator superheroes
and educator zeros.
Individuals and societies may gravitate toward well
known names (who teach MOOCs) in online
environments (see challenge #2).
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10. CHALLENGES OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
4. Commercialism will rise
Wherever there is an ability to make money off others’
work, there will certainly be corporations desiring to use
it to their financial advantage.
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11. CHALLENGES OF
OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES
5. Transforming work in unintended or undesirable
ways
Your life’s good work may be used in ways you never thought
or intended. Tread carefully with your creative commons
designations/attributions.
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