OER for Adult Education

Please watch this video (7:14 minutes) Links to an external site. that provides an overview of how open educational resources (OER) are being used in an adult education context:

Before we move on ...

Consider the final project for this course. Your task is to design and develop instructional materials intended for adult basic education. What are your thoughts about using and designing OER for your lesson materials? Take a moment and ponder the following:

Think back to Module 1. What barriers and opportunities exist for using OER in this adult education context?
Think about the diversity in the adult education learning environments we considered in Module 1. How would learning material and OER use differ in a traditional face-to-face classroom than a blended on online classroom?
What aspects of OER do you think empower adult education instructors and learners?
Think about the distinction we presented earlier about the differences between Free and Open regarding open educational resource use. In the adult education context, what benefits do "Open" learning materials have over merely "Free" materials?