Benefits Of

ADMINISTRATORS

Open Educational Resources have great potential to improve the quality of teaching and learning. The institution’s administrators are the stewards for ensuring that this potential is harnessed.

Administrators have the ability to create learning environments that respond to the varied interests, cultures, languages and styles of students and teachers.

Administrators are able to drive the institution’s evolution from teaching institutions to centers for learning, collaboration, and innovation of new and more valuable knowledge and learning tools.

Lower costs, not only in terms of course and textbook development, revision and delivery, but also in terms of administrator’s time and effort as teachers and students become more empowered.

TEACHERS

Teachers have the ability to discover and find the resources and connections that will make them more effective educators.

Teachers have access and benefit from the most relevant, up-to-date content and no longer need to be dependent on expensive and outdated textbooks.

Teachers gain the ability to create and deliver customized learning materials that support individual student needs.

Teachers are able to participate in the active community of educators committed to the creation, collaboration, and sharing of open-content materials.

STUDENTS

Students are able to access education materials beyond the traditional textbook, to content and formats that best fits a student’s learning style and needs.

Students can connect with communities to share knowledge and provide feedback to challenges.

Students can interact and collaborate with teachers, and a broader range of fellow students, in ways that are more engaging and advance learning.