I enjoyed reading this first blog post by Ling Fang:
I really liked the usage of the table in their blog post, and wished I had used that in my blog posts. I too have experiences with z-library, so this compare and contrast with it and OER was really insightful, really drilling down to me what an OER is. They’re licensed to be free, modified, and reused, whereas other options like z-library may not have the same legal protections. I think the key thing to highlight here is that these resources are modifiable and reusable. We live in a day and age where the internet is a platform for so much mis- and dis-information, that its tough to know right from wrong. Especially in an academic setting, there are resources provided to us that are just wrong, whereas OERs are adaptable and can be modified to suit our learning environments best. One great example is from my HLTH 251 class with Leah Tidey, we use a textbook in which some information is frowned upon, and while its available to learn about those areas historically, its important to address how they’ve changed.
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