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Open Educational Resources: Why Use OER?

Why use OER?

There are many reasons instructors might want to use OER: 

Free and Legal to Use, Improve, and Share

  • Tailoring educational resources to the specific content for your course

Network and Collaborate with Peers 

  • Makes learning and teaching more collaborative

Lower Educational Cost and Improve Access to Information


Why OER matters

OER Impact

Hoping to learn more? There have been multiple studies on faculty implementations, misunderstandings, acceptance of, and evaluation of OER. The Review Project has curated a number of empirical studies published in scholarly journals on the topic. Their general conclusion is: 
