Karen Walton from Wallace State Community College discusses the pros and cons of open educational resources. Some benefits include decreasing student costs, aiding student learning through various delivery methods, and allowing faculty to develop creative learning activities. However, challenges include gaining faculty adoption of resources, a lack of resources for some topics, the initial increased workload for faculty to search for resources, upkeep to ensure quality, and issues with the credibility of resources.

1. Karen Walton
Wallace State Community College
Hanceville, Alabama
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES THE PROS AND CONS

2. BENEFITS OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
•Decrease student costs.
•Can help aide student learning by having various methods of delivery of content.
•Allows faculty to develop learning activities that are “outside of the box.”
•Showcase to a large population of instructors and facilitates peer-to-peer feedback.
•Promotes college, program, and course.

3. CHALLENGES TO USING OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
•Faculty adoption of resources.
•Lack of resources available for some topics (i.e. Simulation).
•Initial increase in faculty workload when searching for resources may decrease likelihood of faculty to use those resources.
•Upkeep of resources to ensure quality.
•Credibility of resources