This presentation will focus on your next steps of evaluating a range of OER resources so that you can enhance the use of OER for your purposes. Learn how you can efficiently evaluate these resources for: quality content appropriateness reputation pedagogical methods customization & refinement

1. So You Have Been
Asked To Use OER
Resources
http://bit.ly/oercheck
Dr. Daniel Downs
Director of Digital Learning, North Reading
Public Schools

2. #GoOpen Summit North Reading
What is #GoOpen?
https://tech.ed.gov/open/
What's good about it?
Networking with OER enthusiasts
Strategic discussions around resources for grade and content use

3. Focus Of This Presentation
This presentation will focus on your next steps of evaluating a range
of OER resources so that you can enhance the use of OER for your
purposes.
Learn how you can efficiently evaluate these resources for:
→ quality
→ content
→ appropriateness
→ reputation
→ pedagogical methods
→ customization & refinement

4. Working With OER
● Participants will discover OER content they can utilize with their
specific student grade/skill level.
● Learn to evaluate the accessibility and quality of the content of
OER resources.
● Learn how to identify and verify the licenses of OER resources
● Develop strategies for creating a centralized repository for
these resources in your school

5. Major OER Platforms &
Resources
North Reading OER List

6. OER Commons
OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows
teachers and others to search and discover open educational
resources (OER) and other freely available instructional materials.
Access it here: https://www.oercommons.org/

7. CK-12 Foundation
The CK-12 Foundation is a California-based non-profit
organization whose stated mission is to reduce the cost of, and
increase access to, K-12 education in the United States and
worldwide.
Access it here: http://www.ck12.org

8. OCW Consortium
We are a global network of educational institutions, individuals
and organizations that support an approach to education based on
openness, including collaboration, innovation and collective
development and use of open educational materials.
Access it here: http://www.Ocwconsortium.org
Or here: http://www.oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/

9. Utah Open Source Project and Utah OER
Utah Open Source Project
Access it here: http://www.uen.org/oer/
Utah OER
Access it here: http://oerutah.org/

10. Evaluation Rubrics, Checklists and Tools
*Note: Some of these evaluation tools align with the Common Core, which might not be important for classes in academia. Please
investigate them to see if they fit your needs.
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. More OER Rubrics training materials can be found through
Archieve.org website.
[Summarized] Rubrics for Evaluating Open Education Resources Objects
This 2-page rubric is a synthesis version of the eight (8) separate rubrics for the
evaluation of OERs created by ACHIEVE.org. It is meant as a ready reference for quick
evaluation of an OER.
(Credit: Created and shared by Rodney Birch of George Fox University.)

11. Evaluation Rubrics, Checklists and Tools Cont.
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
OER Commons.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.
OER Evaluation Checklist

12. Evaluating A Resource
You’ve found an OER. Congrats! Now you should go through a quick
evaluation process to determine whether it’s right for your purposes.
Also keep track of what might need to be improve so you can
enhance the OER for your own purposes.
Link To Form

13. Criteria
● Quality Peer Review available or used
● Reputation of author/ institution is transparent
● Pedagogical methods are sound
● Allows for customization or refinement
● Appropriateness Content is accurate Sources are identified and cited
● Some alignment with a learning outcome or course objective
● Appropriate reading/ domain level for your students
● Technical
● High technical quality (clear visuals, high production value)
● Clear licensing declaration (Creative Commons License present, in the Public Domain,
etc.) License to remix or share again

14. Additional Considerations
1. Does this OER cover the content you'd like your students to learn in this course or module?
2. How accessible is this content? Will it be accessible for your students or is it too technical? Or, vice
versa, is it robust and challenging enough for your students?
3. How can you use the content? Verify the license that the resource is under. Can you remix or revise
the OER as long as it isn't for commercial purposes? Who do you have to recognize if you use it? Will
you be able to do so? For more help with this, please contact the library or read more about our
resources.
4. Once you determine how you can use the OER, what would you like to do with it? Does only a portion
of it apply to your class? Would you possibly want to combine this OER with another OER or resource?
Does the library have access to articles that could act as supplemental readings? (For more
information about the legalities of this, please contact the eReserves department).
5. As you collect more OER and other resources, save them in a central location. Take note of how you
envision using them. Align these resources with the learning objectives and weekly lessons on your
syllabus in order to identify gaps.

15. Results!
Form Results Here!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r6p7pazIgaHYgNFlD_RTplMQhYXKszzHwp2a_9ut
QII/edit?usp=sharing