1. Nancy Scofield
Pueblo Community College
The Good The Bad and The Ugly Ringtone
By tweenn, modified by Nancy Scofield
CC BY 3.0

2. Mix, re-mix, and
collaborate your ideas
with others and create
something completely
new
AntsStitchingLeave
By PHGCOM, Dec. 2007
CC BY-SA 3.0

3. Learn from experts
from around the world
Untitled
By Wayan Vota
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

4. Have access to updated
and current materials
Biblioimages: revised edition
By Lee Leblanc
CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

5. Instructors can focus on
teaching, not preparing
lots of resources,
especially in finding
materials to address
different learning
styles.
Learning Styles
By dsselof
CC BY 2.0

6. Instructional/Curriculum
Designers can search for
materials to support
content they don’t have
personal knowledge or
expertise of, but can
locate items for
instructors/professionals
to review.
Addie-design
By Dave Braunshweig
CC BY-SA 3.0

7. Training people (faculty and
students) how to search for, use,
and cite materials properly

8. Difficulty finding “just the right” item

9. Lack of knowledge and understanding of
OER by most instructors

10. Reluctance by some to use anything but
their own ideas/materials (pride of
ownership)
Pride Tribal vector
By MasFx
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

11. Perhaps some reluctance to share their
own ideas/materials (again with the
pride of ownership thing)
Pride Tribal vector
By MasFx
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0