Benefits and Challenges of using Open Education Resources

1. Jennifer Hermann

2.  Reduced costs for students
 Fosters global collaboration
 Instant access to up-to-date information
 Ability for instructors to customize course
content
 Opportunity to distribute one’s own work
freely

3.  Verifying the authenticity of information
 Relies on Internet/technology
 Narrowing down the expanse of resources
available
 May inhibit creative motivation (“Why should
I develop something that is already out
there?”)
 Diminishes the role of a teacher in a
classroom