Negatives of OER

  • Easy content editing. A text can frequently be changed by anyone at any time, which can have a negative effect on its quality. If, for example, a teacher reads a text in a resource and then refers students to it, it can change within moments without the teacher’s knowing (this, however, can be dealt with by referring students to a specific version of the page used by the teacher). 

  • The problem of guaranteeing quality. Changes would have to be regularly monitored by someone, which would be time consuming. 

  • Problems with authorship – should an author be listed under a text when anonymous editors can significantly change it without his/her knowledge?