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