This presentation discusses the benefits and challenges of open educational resources (OER). The benefits include increased access to learning materials for students around the world, enabling student success, free costs for students, and quick dissemination of information globally. Challenges include the need for reliable internet access, requiring new skills to adopt OER, some student preference for traditional textbooks, needing incentives for instructors to create OER, and fully understanding open licensing.
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OER Benefits Contd.
3. Enabling success in student learning.
4. Free cost of resources and learning materials to students.
5. Quick circulation and disseminate of information around
the world so that students can learn.
Benefits of OER
1. Increase Access to learning: Students sitting anywhere
in the world and at any time can access the resources
to learn.
2. Ties for Alumni: It brings excellent ties for alumni to
stay connected to the institution.
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Challenges
1. Uninterrupted Internet Access: To utilize OER
resources students should have access to internet
access and good connectivity to World Wide Web.
2. Adoption of OER requires new skill sets.
3. Traditional Resources preference: Many of the
students still like to have a textbook to read and follow.
Challenges Contd.
4. Incentives should be provided to instructors so
that they will be inspired to spend more time in
creating resourceful OER.
5. Understanding Open Licenses: It is very
important to understand and have deep
knowledge of re-creating or using other
people work while developing OER
resources for the students.
