Benefits and Challenges of Using Open Educational Resources OER

This document includes an introduction to OER and related research and resources.

1. OER 101
May 2024

Benefits and Challenges of a
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Open Educational Resources (O

2. OER Overview

Educational materials

(image, video, courses etc.)
« found in the public domain; or
+ released under an open license; and
+ permitted for free use and
repurpose

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3. How to choose a license
for your work?

OER
USEFUL
LINKS

How to attribute OER?

4. A 6 Types of Creative Commons Licenses
Quick Reference

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PUBLISH REQUIRED ADAPT LICENSE

Attribution. Noncommercial ShareAlike
(CCBYNCSA)

Attribution-Noncommerclal-NoDerivs.
(CCBYNCND)

QER

services

Understanding OER. Provided by: SUNY OER Services. Located at: https://oer.suny.edu/. Project: OER Community Course. License: CC BY: Attribution

5. 5 Benefits of OER

+ Customizable
+ Up-to-date access
. Encourage student engagement

in creating learning resources
+ Promote collaborative teaching
e Save costs for learners

Reference link:

In 2018,
2.2 million students
48% of all US. colleges used
OER textb bene

‘Appalachia, 2019)

#GoOpen States

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6. Solutions

e Faculty mentors

e Trini
Training

e Online communities

Suggested reading:
Taylor and Taylor. (2018). I’m Never Doing
This Again!: Identifying and Solving Faculty
Challenges in Adoption of Open Educational

Resources
Reference link:
https://ojdla.com/archive/summer212/tayl
or_taylor_212.pdf

5 Challenges of OER

« Hard to ensure content quality

« Lack of understanding of
intellectual ownership

« Non-revocable option of Creative
Commons licenses

« Require frequent updates

» Take time to identify OER in
specific study fields