Wolfgram Subject Guides: Open Educational Resources (OERs): Evaluating OERs

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Interactive Open Educational Resources by John D. Shank
ISBN: 9781118419670
Publication Date: 2013-12-13
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014! 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.

Checklist for Evaluating Open Educational Resources
This checklist is intended to help an instructor evaluate an Open Educational Resource in terms of its: breadth of perspectives and accuracy, alignment, production quality, accessibility, student access, student engagement, cultural relevance and sensitivity, licensing, and adaptability.
iRubric
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.
Commercial Platforms that Utilize Open Educational Resources
Created by Librarian Abbey Elder from Iowa State University. Commercial and not-for-profit agents have different interests that effect how sustainable OERs prove to be in the long term.