Brief presentation of benefits and challenges of open educational resources.

1. Benefits & Challenges
of open educational
resources
Elinda Hagan

2. Open educational resources
Benefits of OER

3. Save costs for students
Through open educational resources educators may assist students to save money by offering open
textbooks and other course materials through an open course.

4. grants access to more quality choices
Numerous leading universities are open to the public for students to access recorded lectures .

5. Helps course preparation for course and retention of
knowledge after courseOpen courses give the present student information to be accessed at any time and past students that
chance to review material as needed

6. Peace of mind using open resources
These sources have been shared and there is no need to contact the author
No need to provide monetary compensation to use them

7. Showcase to widest audience
Enhances university's reputation
Provides education for all
Shares best practice
internationally
Maximizes the use and increases
availability of educational materials
Allows peer review
Raises standard of educational resources by gathering more
contributors

8. Open educational resources
Challenges in using OER

9. Quality Assurance
The amount of material is growing. The quality of the material may have to be judged for its quality.

10. Sustainability of oer
This is a free service. Who will maintain these sites? Sustaining the information will take effort.

11. Lack of public understanding in OER
It takes time to understand OER
OER is just over 10 years old so still unknown to public