Benefits for faculty:

• Increases student retention by reducing costs
• Assures academic freedom to modify or add content to your specifications
• Extends your academic profile
• Provides more relevant and engaging materials for your students

Benefits for students:

• Low cost or free
• Easy to find and access -- even before classes start
• More customized and relevant

Attribution:

"Benefits for faculty and students" is a modified derivative of the poster “BCOER” [opens a PDF] by BCcampus, licensed under CC BY 4.0

Learn More About the Benefits for Teaching and Learning:

A Review of the Effectiveness & Perceptions of OER As Compared to Textbooks

From Royal Roads University.

Video transcript [opens a Word document].

Research on Open Educational Resources and Open Textbooks from BC, Canada