Post on 11-Apr-2017
Considerations for Considerations for Adopting OERAdopting OER
Dr. A. Espinosa-AguilarDr. A. Espinosa-AguilarColumbia Basin CollegeColumbia Basin College
aespinosa@columbiabasin.eduaespinosa@columbiabasin.edu
Possible Difficulties Caused by Using OER
• Students not knowing how to download or navigate the material
• Material not being equally easy to use among platforms (phone vs. laptop vs. tablet, etc.
• Additional time to prepare resources• Content in texts being too basic• No more book rep visits (good and bad?)
Possible Benefits Caused by Using OER
• Cost to students• Easily adaptable for visually impaired• Less paper; more trees• Less angst over replacing texts• Programmatically an easy way to
assign last minute courses or maintain consistency