The document discusses the benefits and challenges of open educational resources (OER). It lists the top strengths as saving students money by avoiding textbook costs, reusing existing high-quality materials, and being available in different formats. However, it also notes potential challenges including not all educators adopting OER yet, needing to evaluate quality among many options, and unstable funding for OER initiatives.

1. Open Educational
Resources
Top 5 List

2.  Saves our students $$$
 No need to reinvent the wheel
 Comes in all formats
 Models importance of attribution and citing to students
 Sharing is caring!
STRENGTHS +++
Making education
more affordable &
accessible!

3. ROOM FOR GROWTH
 Not everyone is on board – yet!
 Possibility of getting overwhelmed with all
the choices available
 You’ve got to do your own quality control
 Still relatively new concept
 Funding for OER initiatives is not always
stable