The document outlines some of the benefits and challenges of using open educational resources (OER) according to Stacy Hudson. The benefits include lower costs for students, accessibility of materials across platforms, no copyright concerns, the ability to tailor materials to one's own teaching practices, and staying up-to-date in one's discipline. Some challenges are the difficulty finding resources in certain subjects like Communication Studies, OER repositories being hard to search, lack of licensing details to properly cite sources, perceived lower quality than copyrighted works, and cumbersome citation of sources.