Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are freely available for public use. OER provide benefits like reduced costs for students, increased access to quality educational materials, and help with course preparation and retention. However, challenges include ensuring the quality of OER materials, sustaining high-quality continuous resources, and meeting accreditation requirements across institutions. Going forward, educational institutions need broader commitment to creating, using, and collaborating on OER as well as establishing processes to search, apply, and share OER.

1. Open Educational Resources
Savio Pham, DM
Highline College

2. Agenda
• Overview of OER
• Benefits
• Challenges
• Going forward

3. Overview
• OER – Open Educational Resources:
– Format: in any medium, digital, etc.
– Conditions: in public domain or under open
license
– Nature: free to be reused and re-purposed by
others

4. Benefits of OER
• Saves costs for students
• Grants access to more quality choices
• Assists preparation for course and retention
after course
• Enhance clarity and/or certainty of material
reuse
• Maximize and increase availability of
educational materials

5. Challenges of OER
• Ensure quality of educational materials
• Sustain quality and continuous supplies of
materials
• Educate public understanding of OER
• Meet/exceed course/program accreditation
• Share process/structure across institutions

6. Going Forward…
• Gathering broad commitment _____ OER
materials by educational institutions
– To create
– To use
– To collaborate
• Creating structural processes for search, apply,
and share OER across individuals, institutions,
and industries