When choosing materials for your course, quality and relevance are essential. The rubrics below may help you evaluate the OER that you find to choose the highest quality and most relevant materials for your students.
- Open Oregon Faculty Checklist for Evaluating Course Materials
Faculty can use this 2-page checklist to assess whether the materials or platform they are considering for adoption will meet student needs. One of the most important questions reflected in this checklist is whether the materials are flexible enough to accommodate student choices about how to acquire and interact with course material.
- Achieve's Rubrics for Evaluating Open Education Resource (OER) Objects
Achieve's OER evaluating rubrics.
- BCcampus' Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources
BCcampus' Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources provides a checklist to evaluate resources.
- Affordable Learning Georgia's Selecting Textbooks
Affordable Learning Georgia's Selecting Textbooks tool provides a handful of evaluation areas with specific questions to contemplate.
- eBook - Interactive Open Educational Resources : A Guide to Finding, Choosing, and Using What's Out There to Transform College Teaching
Written by John Shank and "Sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), this one-of-a-kind book demonstrates the best tools, resources, and techniques for discovering, selecting, and integrating interactive open educational resources (OERs) into the teaching and learning process. The author examines many of the best repositories and digital library websites for finding high quality materials, explaining in depth the best practices for effectively searching these repositories and the various methods for evaluating, selecting, and integrating the resources into the instructor's curriculum and course assignments, as well as the institution's learning management system."
