Open education resources provide potential benefits like saving students money on textbooks, offering more high-quality options to support learning, and promoting independent study. However, there are also challenges such as ensuring the reliability of open resources, determining responsibility for content, and how to sustainably finance and educate the campus community about open education resources and their new role in learning.

1. OPEN EDUCATION
RESOURCES
Benefits and Challenges

2. BENEFITS
 Saves students money
 More options and quality choices
 Helps better prepare for courses
 Promotes independent learning
 Redefines the roles of resources in education

3. CHALLENGES
 Will the quality of resources be reliable?
 Where will the responsibility lie?
 How will OER be consistently financed?
 How will we educate students and instructors about OER?
 How will the new role of OER be received and utilized?