• Significant savings on textbooks
• Course materials are available on the first day of studies and after completing a course
• Course materials are accessible

Leeward CC students from Michele Mahi's COM 210H class speak about using OERs.

• Flexibility in customising content
• Sharing
• Ease of updating OER
• Working together with students to create assignments 
• Be sure that students can use and easily access an assigned textbook in a course

A presentation by Professor Rory McGreal, Athabasca University, Canada for the Technology-Enabled Learning Community of Practice Webinar in March 2020.

• Potential for increased enrolment
• Improved course grades
• OER addresses affordability, completion, attainment gap concerns, and learning)  (Colvard, Watson, & Park, 2018. The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics. 2018, Volume 30, Number 2, 262-276. https://www.isetl.org/ijtlhe/pdf/IJTLHE3386.pdf)

David Wiley: The Financial Potentials of Open Educational Resources by educause. 

David Wiley is is Co-Founder and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning. 

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