Open Educational Resources (OER)

Evaluating Open Educational Resources is the same process as evaluating traditional textbooks. Here is a list of rubrics and resources that can help you evaluate OER you are considering using:

• Achieve's 8 detailed OER rubrics 

• Achieve's rubric, that synthesizes the above rubrics into 2 pages

• Achieve Open Educational Resources Evaluation Tool Handbook

• A rubric developed by Sarah Morehouse with help from Mark McBride, Kathleen Stone, and Beth Burns that provides some great questions to ask when evaluating OER.

• Affordable Learning Georgia's OER Evaluation Criteria

• Pierce College's OER Rubric

• OER Peer Review Rubric developed by Jennifer Paris from College of the Canyons (designed for textbook chapter review, but remixable)