The document discusses the benefits and challenges of Open Educational Resources (OER). The benefits are that OER allows students to access course content from any device, can help lower student costs, and can be adapted for different classrooms. OER also provides a way for faculty to share ideas and resources, and connects educators to a broad world of knowledge. Some challenges are it takes time to filter OER to find high-quality content, institutions rely on electronics to access OER, and financial costs are needed over time to support OER as technologies evolve. Adoption of OER also requires an adjustment period for educators and institutions.

1. OER
As I see it

2. The Benefits
 Students can access the OER from any of their handheld
devices
 Student costs can be kept lower
 OER content can be manipulated to be relevant in any
classroom as long as the CC license and copyright allow
it
 Faculty can have a safe environment to share great ideas
and work
 Open Educational Resources opens us to wide world of
continuing thought and resource

3. The challenges
 Quantity versus quality: the time it takes to filter through
online content to find the quality
 Reliance on electronics
 Financial costs to support OER as time goes by
 Learning curves of creators and institutions will take time