Open Educational Resources: Institutional Costs and Benefits

What are Open Educational Resources? What are the costs and benefits to my institution of an OER initiative? What efforts are needed to get OER projects and programs started? How much do they cost and why? How can they be sustained? What impact does OER adoption have on institutional sustainability?

In this session, Dr. Watson answered the above questions. He discussed UGA’s process of building an OER support team by leveraging existing expertise, funding models and sources, and the experience, impact, and lessons learned from the University of Georgia’s OER initiative.