OER:5 PLUSSES AND 5 MINUSES

"OER: 5 Plusses and 5 Minuses" by Bob Nylander, Highline College is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Why am I interested in Open Educational Resources?

Cheap or free textual materials for students in computer technology courses for the legal profession

Control of content (keeping up to date in rapidly changing area)

Why am I interested in OER?

Feeling of satisfaction for being creative

Possibility of sharing with affiliated schools

Why am I interested in OER?

I would like to act as a “Johnny Appleseed” on my campus to help others move in this direction

What might keep me from using OER?

It's hard to find material that is “right on” for my area

It's sometimes hard to know if material is properly credited or permissions obtained

What might keep me from using OER?

It's a lot of work to create a replacement for a text, when compared to ordering a published text; not everyone is a textbook author or wants to be one.

If it's free will people think it's no good?

What might keep me from using OER?

It seems like a lot of time will be spent with shake-down exercises and practice before using

Picture creditsSlide 2:

“Altair 8800 Computer with Eight Inch Floppy Disk System” by Michael Holley, released by author into the

Public Domain CC0

Slide 3: "Electronic Discovery Reference Model” by EDRM (edrm.net),

is licensed CC BY 3.0

Slide 4: "Spot Welder" by Andreas Feininger,

Farm Security Administration, US Government, is in the Public Domain

Picture credits

Slide 5: “Anthony's Octopus” by Matt Bissett-Johnson is

licensed Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License

Slide 6: “Laughing Toddler” by Katie Thomas is licensed

CC BY 2.0

Picture credits

Slide 7: “Spc. Stephanie Hart, paralegal, 118th Military Police Battalion, Rhode Island National Guard, helps provide perimeter security during medical evacuation

training in the field exercise portion of the 2013 Paralegal Warrior Training Course at Fort McCoy, Wis., July 21.” (US Army photo by Sgt. Darryl L. Montgomery, 319th

Mobile Public Affairs Detachment) US Government photo is in the Public Domain

NOTES

"OER: 5 Plusses and 5 Minuses" by Bob Nylander, Highline College is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

FRONT AND BACK COVER ART FROM LIBREOFFICE IMPRESS VERSION 4, A FOSS (FREE AND OPEN SOFTWARE)