OER provides teaching materials that are freely available and can be reused or modified. Some key benefits are saving costs, helping students learn and retain information, allowing collaboration on best practices, and providing quality resources for all. However, there are also challenges like the time needed to find and implement OER, maintaining resources over time, understanding licensing options, preparing adjunct faculty, and ensuring proper attribution when using digital materials. The document provides an overview of open educational resources including their definition, benefits, and challenges.

1. OER Benefits and
Challenges
Danielle Ritter M.Ed
Tacoma Community College
OER 101, Winter 2015
Assignment 7-1

2. OER Defined
• OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public
domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that
permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational
resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks,
streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or
techniques used to support access to knowledge.
• What is OER? By The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is licensed under CC BY 3.0 US

3. Benefits• Save Money
• Help with Preparation and Retention of Material
• Encourage Collaboration about Best Practices
• Allow Quality Resources to be Available to all
• Support the Belief of Education forAll
Collaborate by Brendeurus is licensed CC BY-NC-SA

4. Challenges
• Time Consuming
• Maintaining the resources for help at the school
• Understanding the options for Licenses or how to useOER
• Preparing an adjunct for a class
• Difficulty withTechnology: giving credit, hyperlinking, finding the
conditions, recognizing and Open Domain
Arrow Set (Future) by mystica is in the Public
Domain CC0 1.0 Universal

5. Thank you
Any Questions?
Danielle Ritter