Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Using OER

Evaluation of OER Resources

Source: "Selection Criteria & Evaluation of OER." Austin Community College Library.

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.
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.

Source: "Open Educational Resources (OER): Evaluate OER." University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign University Library.

The resources below were compiled by the ASCCC OER Initiative and are intended to provide a general overview of the use of OER.

Butte College offers a course titled "OER Basics" in Canvas. The course is available as a self-paced online course under a CC license.
Course Hero's Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom "provides faculty with an introduction to the laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of content they may want to use in a course. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty. At the end of the course, students will have openly licensed content that will be ready for use in a course."
Open Washington's "How to Use Open Educational Resources". is a self-paced workshop that covers licensing, finding OER, accessibility, and more.