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7 The Case for OER

Most educators who are first learning about OER share two important concerns: will an open textbook offer the same quality as a commercial textbook and isn’t it a lot of work to create my own textbook?

There are tools available to address the issue of quality, and many in the OER have made great progress in promoting rating and review systems.

A Review of the Efficacy and Perception of Open Educational Resources As Compared to Textbooks

OER Myth busting

Think OER are too difficult to find or complicated to use? Worried that they will take too much time and effort to implement? Concerned about copyright and intellectual property protection? The OER Policy for Europe has addressed many of these concerns on their OER Myth busting! site.

Additionally, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has created a digital resource outlining myths to OER, including:

  • Open simply means free
  • All OER are digital
  • “You get what you pay for”
  • Copyright for OER is complicated
  • OER are not sustainable
  • Open textbooks lack ancillaries
  • My institution is not ready for OER

 

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