This document discusses the benefits and challenges of open educational resources (OER). It notes that OER can help reduce student costs through affordable or free educational materials. However, finding and locating quality OER can be time-consuming and difficult given many users and institutions are still unfamiliar with OER. The future of OER remains uncertain, but wider adoption could help share best educational practices globally while lowering costs.

1. By Wayne S

2. • Affordability/student cost-savings in face of ever rising
textbook costs
• Wide access to educational/classroom resources form a
wide variety of HE Institutions such as: MIT, Univ. Cal
Berkeley, Yale, Stanford, etc.
• Opportunity to share best practices globally

3. • Assurance to Users of Quality (even accuracy, and
legitimacy)
• What Does the Future Hold for OER? (Uncertainty)
• Public and HE Establishment not too familiar with OER,
and how to best find/use resources
• One you choose to utilize CC License you can’t
revoke/change
• Finding/locating the OER resources is time consuming
and often challenging

4. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
• http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/ten-years-later-why-
open-educational-resources-have-not-noticeably-
affected-higher-education-and-why-we-should-ca
• http://www.curriki.org/?gclid=CLOFw7e9zLkCFcU5Qgod
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• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_OER%3F