What’s in it for For me?

Here are some of the emerging individual benefits that project team discussions have identified:

• Creating and using OERs is a positive professional development activity that can help you think about your practice and also see how others have taught similar or related content/practices.
• Depositing OERs can help to facilitate links with others across the country and the world with whom you may be able to create longer term meaningful collaborations and partnerships.
• Developing OERs can assist in enhancing educational design skills. These skills can be used to create materials that may assist in extending blended and flexible learning at the UAL.

In addition staff, students and the institution can benefit by:

• The institution can benefit Collaborative links with the national and international OER communities of practice
• Using OERs as a showcase for individual students, staff and the UAL for promotion, networking and student recruitment