2. BENEFITS
No budget, no problem!
Open Education Resources are free to use
Available 24/7
You and your students can access them online at any time
Adaptable
Many let you change the resource to fit your student population
Easy to create your own
Contribute to the field by licensing and creating your own OER
Learning styles
You can find resources in a variety of formats
3. CHALLENGES
Where to start?
There are so many resources out there, it can be hard to know where to start
Time
To put together some good materials for students, you will need to spend a good
chunk of time
Sources
It might be difficult to asses the quality or accuracy of OER
Awareness
Before this course, I didn’t understand OER, so you might have to educate your
co-workers
Uncertain future
Many OER projects were started with funding that might not continue