The document discusses both the challenges and benefits of open educational resources (OER). Some challenges include the time needed to search for relevant materials from different sources, concerns about maintaining quality and support after initial funding ends, and issues around copyright and intellectual property. However, OER provides benefits such as cost savings for students, a broad selection of high-quality materials, flexibility in content presentation, and opportunities for teachers to connect with a global community of educators. The document advocates that OER can enable education for all.

1. OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES:
an art historical
mishmash of the
benefits and
challenges
Katherine Taylor
October 2013
Hey, didn’t
we eat
mishmash
last night for
dinner?

2. First, the challenges . . .
My value has
been established,
but am I not also
my own
woman?
Searching for relevant and
valuable Open Educational
Resources can be frustrating
Who owns this image? Exact
photographic copies of twodimensional public domain works
of art are not copyrightable under
U.S. law because such images are
not original, yet years after this
1999 ruling, copyright for many
such images continues to be
asserted

3. Searching for
Open Educational
Resources
involves time
There is a lot of
available material,
though it’s not all in
one location, and
some disciplines
may require more
research than others
Pack a
lunch

4. Dang!
There goes
our start-up
money!
Support for Open
Educational Resources
may be difficult to
sustain:
After one-time start-up
funding disappears,
providing support may
prove challenging and
expensive; quality may
veer off-course

5. Sweetie, no one expects
you to understand
licensing – but just try to
remember that you can
stop offering your other
work under a CC license.
The non-revocable nature
of Creative Commons
licenses may prove
somewhat challenging

6. The potential
of Open
Educational
Resources is
not well
understood,
and some may
even feel it
threatens their
ownership of
intellectual
property
Oh no!
What’s
happening to
my
intellectual
property?!

7. However, on the plus side . . .
Open Educational Resources saves money for students!
Textbooks
are so *!
#$*&!
expensive!
Now we
can afford
clothes!

8. So
many
choices!
It’s
making
me giddy!
Open Educational Resources offers a broad selection of high quality
material

9. Open Educational Resources offers course material in varied
presentation methods for teachers and students alike
I’ll take
whatever is
behind the
curtain.
Not me.
I’m going
for what’s
in the
bowl!

10. Open Educational Resources allows teachers
(especially from small or remote schools) to feel
connected with a broader community
There’s no
one else
around
The world is
bigger than
you know

11. Even
Americans
.
What are Americans?
I have so much to
learn
Open educational resources = education for all

12. Public domain addresses used:
1. Grant Wood American Gothic:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+grant+wood&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+grant+wood&sc=0-15&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=663C7F
2. Leonardo Mona Lisa: http://www.bing.com/images/search?
q=Public+Domain+leonardo+mona+lisa&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+leonardo+mona+lisa&sc=0-0&sp=1&sk=#view=detail&id=C109F845913FBF1EC2EA8291E1053B9021963717&selectedIndex=4
3. Japanese wood-cut:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&i
4. Rembrandt Storm on the Sea of Galilee: http://www.bing.com/images/search?
q=Public+Domain+rembrandt&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+rembrandt&sc=0-17&sp=1&sk=#view=detail&id=BBE507E0AF4D5B5F14399CF2AE57668FB698C9EE&selectedIndex=13
5. Mary Cassatt:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&i
6. Edvard Munch The Cry:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&i
7. Bourguereau Bacchus:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+paintings&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+paintings&sc=7-23&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=9816A1F15D4E
8. Still life genre painting:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=public+domain+paintings&qs=SC&sk=&FORM=QBIR&pq=public%20domain%20pains&sc=8-19&sp=1&qs=SC&sk=#view=detail&i
9. Byzantine Empress Theodora mosaic:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+byzantine+mosaic&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+byzantine+mosaic&sc=0-17&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id
10. Michelangelo Sistine Chapel fresco:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+michelangelo&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+michelangelo&sc=0-18&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&id=14FCE6
11. Raphael School of Athens:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Public+Domain+raphael+school+of+athens&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=public+domain+raphael+school+of+athens&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=