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OER Challenges and Benefits
OER Challenges and Benefits
Benefits of Open
Educational Resources
(OER)
Dennis Gorsuch
Challenges:
1. Accessibility to computers and online resources
2. Quality control of resources
3. Time intensive to find quality repositories
4. Compiling and maintaining content from many
different sources
5.
Difficulty standardizing courses from amongst
OER institutions
Benefits:
1. Saves money for students
2. Allows for collaboration amongst faculty and students
3. Allows for unique and creative curriculum development
4. Open access to a variety of resources
5. Improves student and faculty content navigation skills
Challenge 1: Accessibility to computers
and online resources
Many locations with poor resource availability and
connectivity may not benefit from the implementation
of this technology until this problem is solved
Challenge 2: Quality control of resources
Committees are needed as safeguards to ensure the
authenticity and accuracy of content found within
repositories
Challenge 3: Time intensive to find quality
repositories
Untilwe find a solution to challenge 2, prolonged
searches may be necessary to vet the content within
repositories
Challenge 4: Compiling and maintaining content from many
different sources