This document discusses the benefits and challenges of open educational resources (OREs). The benefits include sharing knowledge with peers, reducing costs for students, increasing social responsibility and access to education, sharing best practices internationally, and improving educational resources through more contributors. The challenges are a lack of public understanding of OREs, ensuring quality, a lack of awareness about copyright issues, sustaining OER initiatives long-term, and issues with compatibility between different systems.
2. Benefits of OREs
• Sharing and developing knowledge
to peer colleagues
• Saves costs for students
• Social responsibility – provides
education for all
• Shares best practice internationally
• Raises standard of educational
resources by gathering more
contributors
3. Challenges of OREs
• Lack of public understanding in
OER
• Quality Assurance
• Lack of awareness of copyright
issues
• Sustainability of OER initiatives
• Interoperability
