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Free or low-cost: OERs are typically free or have very minimal costs associated with them, helping to alleviate the burden students face when attempting to access the materials they need to help meet their course's learning outcomes and to succeed ( Cannon & Brickman, 2015; Hatzipanagos & Gregson, 2015).

Provides flexibility to faculty: The adoption of OER provides faculty the flexibility and freedom to select different types of materials to suit the needs of their courses. David Wiley, the Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning and a Marshall University alum, argues that OER can facilitate more meaningful and inclusive pedagogical practices.

Improves student success: Students had better performance on exams, had higher final grades, were more likely to stay enrolled in a class, and were more likely to meet other course learning outcomes when they were enrolled in a course that had adopted an OER compared to being enrolled in the same course where a traditional/commercial textbook was adopted ( Hilton & Laman, 2012; Clinton, 2018; Chia-Wen & Pei-Di, 2014). Worst case scenario is that students performed similarly when the OER was adopted instead of a commercial text ( Choi & Carpenter, 2017).

Their ease of use, ability to take the materials anywhere, and the inclusion of diverse and interactive materials were also cited as benefits to OERs ( Kinsky, King, & Miller, 2018).

*Yes, we understand the irony of not having open access to all the linked articles.

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LibGuides: Open Educational Resources: Benefits of OERs

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Free or low-cost: OERs are typically free or have very minimal costs associated with them, helping to alleviate the burden students face when attempting to access the materials they need to help meet their course's learning outcomes and to succeed ( Cannon & Brickman, 2015; Hatzipanagos & Gregson, 2015).

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OER (Open Educational Resources) Introduction

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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks

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LibriVox is turning 18, and we've just got another year older better! In the last year, our volunteers have created over 1200 new audiobooks, so let's celebrate our anniversary with 10 of the latest gems from our catalog. The most exciting thing of last year was the addition of another language to our catalog: Indonesian.

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Open Author helps you build and publish Open Educational Resources for you and for the benefit of educators and learners everywhere.

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Groups provides a flexible environment to organize, create, share, and discuss resources with others in your network. Collaborate with group members, tag and add resources to shared folders, create your own collections, all within a public or private group.

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Our award-winning OER Professional Learning programs support instructors and curriculum specialists to gain the necessary skills required to find, adapt, and evaluate high quality open materials.

In-person and virtual OER workshops help focus instructors to develop a "commons" mindset, to experience the benefits of open processes using the platform's tools, collaborative features, and workflows. This can include using Open Author for creating, remixing, and publishing shared curriculum.

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OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

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