using open educational resources
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Using Open Educational Resources
Benefits and ChallengesBy Karen Tamaki
Benefits to Using OER
• Cost effective to share products• Enhances learning by using dynamic tools that
the educator may not be able to create on his/her own
• Homogenizes learning for certain technical topics
• Allows for improvement with broad input• Products are reusable over and over again
Challenges to Using OER
• Quality assurance• Finding appropriate material• Economic sustainability of product
development• Rapidly changing technology which outdates
products quickly making produce obsolete• Attributing product correctly and the risk of
capturing copyrighted material inadvertantly
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