OER (Open Educational Resources)

Pros

Electronically available

More accessible

More interactive

Potentially more up-to-date

Cost

Adjustable to faculties current curriculum

Principles

Redistribute

Remix

Revise

Reuse

Retain

Types of assets

Text Books

Digital simulations

Videos

Podcasts

Test/quiz question bank

OER textbook repositories

openstax

BCcampus

Open Education Group

Global Text Project

Green Tea Press

InTechOpen

LibreTexts

MIT Open Courseware

Noba

Online Mathematics Textbooks

OpenBook Publishers

Open Textbook Initiative

ScholarWorks@GVSU

Orange Grove: Textbooks and Courseware

MERLOT: Textbooks

OER Commons

Open SUNY

FreeTechBooks

Concerns

Quality

Time to change curriculum

Potentially outdated

Lack of supplemental materials

Decrease faculty job security (content being used outside of university causing lower enrollments)

Funding for development