Open educational resources (OER) provide opportunities for affordable education by reducing textbook costs and allowing wide access to educational materials from top universities. However, finding and ensuring the quality of OER can be challenging given that the educational establishment and public are still unfamiliar with OER. While OER aim to share best practices globally, their future impact remains uncertain as adoption has been slow.

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=CLOFw7e9zLkCFcU5QgodHnMA
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• http://wiki.creativecommons.org/What_is_OER%3F