This guide highlights selected tools that will assist you with locating, evaluating and using open educational resources (OER) -- specifically open access textbooks.
There is much advice available regarding the evaluation of open educational resources (OER). This page includes a selection of OER evaluation criteria.
Six (6) criteria: Relevance; Accuracy; Production Quality; Accessibility; Interactivity; Licensing. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Six (6) criteria: Clarity, Comprehensibility, and Readability; Content Accuracy and Technical Accuracy; Adaptability and Modularity; Appropriateness; Accessibility; Supplementary Resources.
Eight (8) rubrics: Degree of Alignment to Standards; Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter; Utility of Materials Designed to Support Teaching; Quality of Assessment; Quality of Technological Interactivity; Quality of Instructional and Practice Exercises; Opportunities for Deeper Learning; Assurance of Accessibility. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. | Also refer to Achieve's Open Educational Resources Evaluation Tool Handbook: https://www.achieve.org/files/AchieveOEREvaluationToolHandbookFINAL.pdf
