OER provides teaching materials that are freely available for others to use and modify. Some key benefits are that OER can save money, help with lesson preparation and retention, and encourage collaboration on best practices. However, OER also presents some challenges, such as taking time to develop resources, maintaining technical support, understanding licensing options, and ensuring proper attribution when using others' work.

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