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OER is a great way to share knowledge beyond the Institution, taking it out of Universities and share with a wider community that may benefit from existing knowledge production

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OER is important to me because it frees more time to spend focusing on the educational experiences of students, whether that extra time involve attention to personal interactions/meetings which make students feel more comfortable in class or allow for more engagement in projects, and getting to know the details of class dynamics and preferences.

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Access to education is a right that should be held by everyone. OER is a natural facilitation of this idea, helping to package pieces of knowledge together into cohesive units for people to access freely. Development of high-quality OER is important to me because I would rather educational resources be free instead of being used by various publishers and services to generate a profit. Educational institutions already charge large sums to provide education via lectures and structured assessments, and I think that students should not have to be forced to invest in over-priced course materials on top of this.

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OER means hope for the future of academia. Academia is authoritative and claims its power through publications however knowledge production should be inclusive and multivocal. OER provides reflexive opportunities and partnership rather than ownership.

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OER is democratically available to students and could lead to more or deeper engagement with community voices that would otherwise not be invited into a classroom environment.

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Why spending the time on preparing the materials that is already made and possibly improved and discussed? I could use that time on my preparation while my students enjoy both better lectures and content!

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OER can by used to support anti-oppressive pedagogies by promoting collaborative learning, creativity and subverting instructor-student hierarchies

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OER is important for me becuase by curation I do not need to creat a course content from scratch and I can use other teachers work. Also I believe when you open yor knowledge to others, they become smarter in that topic and with their unique ideas can help you to increase creativity or ask questions that deepen your knowledge

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Student access to materials is paramount to their success in the course and overall success as a student. Having taught in rather underprivileged schools, getting student’s access to free or almost free material was a massive win for them. They were able to take part in the course fully from the start and not be behind other more well-off students.

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Open Education and OER are important to be because they are crucial in making higher education more accessible. OER are easily accessible and their flexibility makes them more relevant than traditional learning resources such as textbooks. Open Education and OER link well with my underlying teaching pedagogy of kindness and my belief in universal design.

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OER allows for accessibility and flexibility of content. With the dominance of internet, and information sharing it is less reasonable to use set instructional resources such as textbooks, both because of their costs and also due to the ever changing material. OER allow for accessible and flexible content. It also prevents "gatekeeping" as a larger group of people can contribute to content creation.

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In many ways, OER is about meeting students where they are at. It gives them more options to take ownership of their learning, and reduces barriers.

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OER is important to me because it broadens the availability of academic resources while clearly stating the permissions that users have with this contnent

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OER is important to me because it broadens the availability of academic resources while clearly stating the permissions that users have with this contnent

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OER are important for a few reasons to me: accessibility to students, democratizing education, and collaboration. OER allow for everyone in the pedagogical process (students and teachers) to have more flexibility in the content of the classroom, from accessibility of materials to what kinds of materials can be included in the course.