Open Educational Resources

Here are a few criteria to consider when selecting OER:

1. Content: Does this OER cover the content you'd like your student to learn in the course?
2. Accessibility: Is the content at the right level for your students? Is it challenging enough? 
3. Use: Is the license open? Can you share, reuse, and remix the content freely? 
4. Quality: Is the OER peer reviewed? Can you read comments from other instructors who teach courses like yours? Are errors corrected and noted?
5. Format: Does the material come in a format your students can access easily? Is special software required? Can the material be printed or purchased at a low cost?

"Open Educational Resources" by University of Texas Libraries is licensed by CC BY-NC 2.0.

• Achieve's OER Rubrics
  Achieve.org has developed eight OER rubrics as well as an evaluation tool to help users determine the degree of alignment of OER to the Common Core State Standards, and aspects of quality of OER.
• Achieve Open Educational Resources Evaluation Tool Handbook 
  This handbook will guide a user through the process of evaluating an online resources using Achieve OER Evaluation Tool, which is hosted on OERCommons.org.
• iRubric: Evaluating OER Rubric
  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.
• Austin Community College's Rubric
  A comprehensive checklist for evaluating OER developed by the ACC Instructional & Faculty Development Department.
• OER Evaluation Criteria
  A six component checklist for evaluating OER from Affordable Learning Georgia.