Rubrics, Checklists, and Frameworks
You as the educator may end up taking on a more active role than in the past in evaluating prospective materials. While using your intuition as an educator can go a long way, checklists and rubrics can better guide you as you consider all important factors involved in finding suitable resources.
iRubric: Evaluating OER Rubric Links to an external site.
This rubric is based on questions to ask about the OER you are thinking of using.
This rubric is developed by Sarah Morehouse with help from Mark McBride, Kathleen Stone, and Beth Burns is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Links to an external site..
Other evaluation tools
OER Evaluation Checklist (PDF) Links to an external site.
This checklist was reused and adapted from Kirkwood Community College Library's guide on open textbooks.
Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Links to an external site..
This paper proposes a simple-to-use framework for faculty and students to apply in determining whether OER have fitness for purpose in their teaching and learning. The selection criteria are based upon the benefits claimed in the literature for OER, MERLOT’s framework of evaluation criteria for OER selection and Merrill’s first principles of instruction. The criticality, feasibility and applicability of these criteria were reviewed by 207 OER researchers and users through a cross-regional online survey and subsequent consultations with a small team of experts familiar with researching and using OER. The final 25-item final framework was developed in accord with the agreed criteria. The final Framework is presented as Table 5.
Jung, Insung, Teruyoshi Sasaki and Colin Latchem. (2016). A framework for assessing fitness for purpose in open educational resources. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education. 13:3 Retrieved from https://educationaltechnologyjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s41239-016-0002-5 Links to an external site.