Evaluating Open Educational Resources
Evaluation Options
There are many ways you can evaluate OERs for use and repurposing. Yuan and Recker (2015) Links to an external site. identified and reviewed 14 quality rubrics for OERs, each of which varies in quality, and by purpose. A sampling of these rubrics includes:
- Rubric to evaluate OER objects Links to an external site. (OER rubric; Achieve, 2011)
- Learning Object Evaluation Instrument Links to an external site.* (LOEI; Haughey & Muirhead, 2005)
- Learning Objects Quality Evaluation Model Links to an external site. (Kurilovas, Bireniene, & Serikoviene, 2011)
- Learning Object Review Instrument Links to an external site. (LORI, Leacock & Nesbit, 2007; Nesbit, Belfer, & Leacock, 2007; Vargo, Nesbit, Belfer, & Archambault, 2003)
- Rubric from Merlot (www.merlot.org; Haughey & Muirhead, 2005)
Our OER Evaluation Rubric
For the purpose of this course and the exercises that follow in this module, the course creator(s) have adapted one of these rubrics Links to an external site. under the terms and conditions of its license for your use. Click on the image below to open the rubric within Google Docs Links to an external site. where you can print or make a copy of the document.
Scroll through the OER Evaluation Rubric below to view the evaluation criteria:
*Sorry about the article paywall(s). Hopefully that articulates the importance of open!