This document discusses the benefits and challenges of using open educational resources (OER). The benefits include saving students costs, allowing students to reinforce their learning, and giving faculty flexibility in choosing resources. However, challenges include a lack of awareness about copyright issues, non-revocable Creative Commons licenses, keeping materials constantly updated, ensuring quality, and sustainability of OER initiatives over time.

1. Benefits and
Challenges of Using
Open Educational
Resources (OER)
Keren Canales

2. Benefits of using OER
• Saves costs for students.
• Gives the students an opportunity to reinforce what
they have learned.
• Allows the faculty the ability to choose the resources
they want to use.
• Promotes peer review.
• Stimulates social responsibility.
Keren Canales

3. Challenges of Using OER
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Lack of awareness of copyright issues.
Non-revocable Creative Commons licenses.
Constant update of educational materials.
Quality assurance.
Sustainability of initiatives.
Keren Canales

4. References
7 things you should know about... Open Educational
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CC BY-NC-ND
Chae, B. (2014). How to Use Open Educational
Resources (OER) - Winter Cohort 2. Retrieved
from https://sbctc.instructure.com/login
Hylén, J. (n.d.). Open Educational Resources:
Opportunities and Challenges. Retrieved from
http://www.oecd.org/edu/ceri/37351085.pdf