Brief summary of OERs' benefits and challenges.

1. Global Open Educational Resources Logo by Jonathasmello is
licensed under CC-BY 3.0
Benefits and Challenges
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2. Benefits
 Build, share and expand knowledge.
 Education available for everybody, not just
those who pay for it.
 Cost effective for all: students, teachers,
and administration.
 Better quality of contents: improvement
and revisions by other users.
 Decide what type of CC license to use:
restrictions and permissions.
 Develop and promote research.
 Marketing and increase reputation: Show
your work to the world.
 Endorse lifelong learning.
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3. Challenges
 Access to computers and Internet for all.
 Content maintenance: time, money and
resources to keep materials updated.
 Mistrust when using other people´s work.
 Content misconstruction by other users:
quality assurance.
 Scarce public understanding of OER.
 Fear of losing property of work: non
revocable CC licenses.
 Use of a resource without adapting it to the
institution / student needs (Learning
objectives, learning style, etc.)
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4. References
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Jonathasmello . Global Open Educational Resources Logo . Licensed
under a CC-BY 3.0. Retrieved on February 27, 2014 from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Global_Open_Educational_Resources
_Logo.svg .
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SBCT. (2014). Course: How to use Open Educational Resource, Winter
2014. Module 7. Licensed under a CC-BY 3.0. Retrieved on February
27, 2014 from: https://sbctc.instructure.com/courses/940994.
This work by Lina M. Espinosa Gómez is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 International License.