OERs: Benefits and Challenges
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BENEFITS & CHALLENGES
OF OERTHIS SLIDE + 10 MORE SLIDESBY GREG BEM, MLIS, LWTECH
Benefit #1: OERs promote outward, innovative thinking in Education.
"Remote delivery of ShelterBoxes . . . " by NCVO London is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Challenge #1: OERs risk chaos and uncertainty in their openness.
"Lightning Storm" by Benjamen Benson is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Benefit #2: OERs encourage diversity of students and teachers and academic environments.
"Diversity" by Angie Garrett is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Challenge #2: Questions of quality and integrity arise with OER authorship
distribution/decentralization."Shadowy figure" by Brad Hagan is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Benefit #3: Under current circumstnaces, tudents save on financial costs when using OERs.
"Savings" by Images Money is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Challenge #3: Disruptions in traditional author model may impact financial benefits to academic
authors."Broken Pattern" by Charles Knowles is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Benefit #4: OERs will increase egalitarian/democratic discourse within and beyond
institutions, and will promote collaboration.
"Discussion" by Olivia Chow is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Challenge #4: OERs may have negative affects on perceptions of leadership within the world of
scholarly communication and academic publishing."Leadership" by Pedro Ribeiro Simões is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Benefit #5: OERs bring many new ways of thinking about different subject areas to the table, quickly
and directly."Bonsai" by Antonio Tajuelo is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Challenge #5: All of the revolutions in information and creation may be overwhelming for some.
"Quicksand" by Paul Clarke is licensed under CC BY 2.0