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The document discusses the key benefits and challenges of using open educational resources (OER). Some of the main benefits are that OERs save students money by being free, provide high-quality learning materials from top institutions, and promote equitable access to education. However, challenges include educating teachers about OERs, requiring teachers to change how they teach, ensuring the long-term sustainability of OER archives, and maintaining high quality across materials.
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The document provides an overview of open educational resources (OER). It discusses the history of OER, including early initiatives like Project Gutenberg and MIT OpenCourseWare. It defines OER according to organizations like UNESCO and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The document outlines the principles of OER, including being freely available, adaptable, and openly licensed. It discusses advantages like lower costs, improved access, and customization possibilities. Potential weaknesses include issues with quality control, sustainability, and reliance on internet access.Oer
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Open educational resources (OER) provide more accessible and affordable education globally by allowing users to access information without incurring high costs. OER gives students more options for how to learn through downloadable assignments or videos. It also allows students to review materials after courses and share knowledge with others. However, determining quality can be difficult and some instructors may feel ownership of their work is threatened by OER since it is a relatively new concept. Maintaining high quality OER sites over time can also be an expensive challenge.Open educational resources
Open educational resourcesJonathan Cowles
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Open Educational Resources (OER) provide benefits such as saving students money on textbooks, encouraging open sharing of knowledge, and facilitating collaboration to improve educational materials. However, challenges exist including difficulty finding and evaluating the quality of OER, uncertainty over copyright and licensing, and ensuring proper attribution when using OER.The Benefits & Challenges of Open Educational Resources (OER)
The Benefits & Challenges of Open Educational Resources (OER)Ray Chew
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Open educational resources (OER) are freely accessible, openly licensed educational materials that can be used for teaching, learning, and research. Some key benefits of OER include lower costs for students, allowing educators to adapt and distribute materials freely, and increasing global access to education. However, challenges include ensuring consistency of quality across OER and addressing fragmentation without a central location for all OER resources.Benefits and Challenges of Open Educational Resources (OER)
Benefits and Challenges of Open Educational Resources (OER)Kevin Bowersox-Johnson
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This document discusses the benefits and challenges of open educational resources (OER). It defines OER as openly licensed educational content that can be freely used and reused. The benefits outlined are lower costs for students, up-to-date content contributed by experts, shareable resources that help institutions meet their educational mission. Challenges include the large number of resources making it time-consuming to find appropriate content, variability in quality and accessibility, and lack of faculty training in using OER. Supporting OER repositories requires ongoing resources and staffing.Ad
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- 1. S The Key Benefits and Challenges of Using Open Educational Resources: One Persons Opinion Prepared By: Dora Summers-Ewing Olympic College July 11, 2015
- 2. What is OER? S According to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation - S "OER are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. Open educational resources include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to knowledge."
- 3. Key Benefits S Saves students money because these are free materials! S Provides students resources from a number of well known educational institutions ( i.e., MIT, Yale, Harvard) without having to attend them. S High quality materials! Increases student retention of material presented. S Sources are potentially more timely and up to date than existing textbooks. S Provides a wide variety of materials that will appeal to all types of learners: visual, auditory, kinesthetic. S Easy for teachers to gain access to these materials both plentiful and easy to use as a result of Creative Commons licenses. S Its the moral thing to do give everyone access to free education.
- 4. Key Challenges S Educating the worlds teachers, instructors and professors about the availability of these resources. S Requires teachers to learn something new or change the way they are teaching today. Hence, not every teacher will choose this option. S Sustainability of the archives currently storing OER (in case of funding cuts or lack of grants). S Finding cost effective ways to translate these sources into other needed languages. S Creative Commons licenses are completely non-revocable. S Quality You dont want to wade through garbage to get to a gem. Rather you should be able to expect them all to be gems if they are being offered to the public.