OER Cost Assessment Strategies - Nichole Karpel and Bruce Schneider, EDUCAUSE Review

Seemingly, OER are good for faculty, students, and college administrators; so why isn't every college implementing OER as a priority project? The short answer is that OER cost is just the beginning. The planning, selection, management, and maintenance of OER can propel even the best of planning teams into a quandary of unknown variables and decisions that can consume considerable resources for a potentially favorable outcome. This article examines the decisions, challenges, and lessons learned surrounding the implementation of OER. Although users are permitted to revise OER, which brings other considerations, the amount of research in this area is limited, and we focus here on costs, selection, and maintenance of OER. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2018/12/oer-cost-assessment-strategies