OER Knowledge CloudWeb ArticleBates, TonyI increasingly fear that the open educational resources movement is being used as a way of perpetuating inequalities in education while purporting to be democratic. Some components of OERs also smack of hypocrisy, elitism and cultural imperialism (the bad), as well as failure to apply best practices in teaching and learning (the ugly). Despite my support for the idea of sharing in education (the good), these concerns have been gnawing away at me for some time, so after 42 years of working in open learning, I feel it’s time to provide a critique of the open educational resources ‘movement’.20112011/02/06Online Learning and Distance Education ResourcesCanadahttps://www.tonybates.ca/2011/02/06/oers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/does not applyOER advantages and disadvantagesOER qualityhttps://www.tonybates.ca/2011/02/06/oers-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/Canada, North America