Open Educational Resources (OER)

Find and evaluate OER materials such as ebooks, images, videos, case studies, simulations and more. Understand copyright and Creative Commons (CC) licences.

• About OER
• Understanding OER licencing
• Search tips and tools
• Find OER textbooks
• Find other OER
• Create OER
• Evaluate OER
  • OER evaluation checklist
  • Other evaluation tools

  OER evaluation checklist

  The credibility of information rests on the integrity of the resources you have used to support the teaching and learning aim. Use this simple checklist, produced by the University of Queensland Library, to quickly decide whether the OER is appropriate for your purposes. Additional OER evaluation tools have been provided. OER material need to be referenced like any other source of information.

  Licensed for open use

  • CC licence that allows for educational reuse
  • CC licence allows for modification and adaption
  • Public domain

  Suitability

  • Aligned with course objectives
  • Appropriately current
  • Suitable for your students' level

  Quality

  • Creator is identified
  • Creator is reputable
  • Accurate content
  • Audio, video, images are of high quality

  Ease of use

  • Clear and easy to understand
  • Interface easy to navigate

  Accessibility

  • Audio and video resources have a transcript or subtitles
  • Alternative formats are available if required (as Word document or PDF)
  Downloadable version of the checklist

  Other evaluation tools

  Achieve, which is a non-profit educational organization, has developed eight rubrics for evaluating OER. A rating scheme is recommended for assessing the material under each rubric.

  A set of materials developed to help educators use and learn more about the Achieve Open Educational Resource (OER) Rubrics and OER Evaluation Tool.

  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.

  Use the BranchEd Equity Rubric for OER Evaluation to evaluate the OER you are using for equity. This rubric will help you evaluate across 4 dimensions of equity: Learner-Centred, Critical, Culturally Sustaining, and Universally Designed for Learning (UDL).

  A site created to help open education practitioners understand the various aspects of inclusive OER and how to apply these principles in practice. Empowered OER uses the BranchED Equity Rubric as a framework to provide a set of resources, concrete examples, and guides curated to the Australian context.