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Benefits and Challenges

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BENEFITS
Students
• Lower Costs
• Provided with additional support materials
• Access to a variety of perspectives on topic

Instructors
• All students have the course materials
• Ability to enhance course with free materials
• Access to additional course materials and media
CHALLENGES
Students
• May prefer having one textbook – traditional style of courses
• Unfamiliar with OER and copyright issues
• OER courses may seem confusing with many sources of information

Instructors
•
•
•
•

Time Consuming to find resources
Copyright Concerns
Difficult to find high-quality, relevant resources
Too many resources to search through

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  • 1. OER Benefits and Challenges CC BY-NC 2.5 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/
  • 2. BENEFITS Students • Lower Costs • Provided with additional support materials • Access to a variety of perspectives on topic Instructors • All students have the course materials • Ability to enhance course with free materials • Access to additional course materials and media
  • 3. CHALLENGES Students • May prefer having one textbook – traditional style of courses • Unfamiliar with OER and copyright issues • OER courses may seem confusing with many sources of information Instructors • • • • Time Consuming to find resources Copyright Concerns Difficult to find high-quality, relevant resources Too many resources to search through