OER Evaluation Tools on OER Commons
Overview
This resource is part of the OERizona Advanced Course and supports OERizona faculty across Arizona in using tools and rubrics to evaluate OER.
Using Tools and Rubrics to Evaluate OER
When faculty are analyzing OER for potentially integrating it into their courses, their pedagogical and content knowledge automatically begin noting strengths of the resource and areas that may need improvement and customization. Below are several importants points to note about analyzing and evaluating OER:
- Each person's background and experiences influence how they evaluate a resource and what they see (and don't see).
- Evaluting a resource can be very time-consuming.
- OER are often designed to be dynamic resources that invite collaboration and iteration.
- Metadata and analytics can be strong tools for helping faculty sort and curate samples that are worthy of deeper analysis.
- Artificial Intellignce (AI) is a tool that can both support and hinder the curation of OER. While AI can support the creation of resources and tools, it is difficult to fact-check and give attribution. This impacts the reliability and credibility of any resources created via AI.
To support faculty in curating and evaluating OER - and to support faculty who are backwards designing the creation of new OER - there are multiple tools and rubrics built into OER Commons and the OERizona Hub to leverage the collaborative power of Arizona faculty experiences and expertise.
- OER Commons has partnered with Achieve to develop an OER Rubric and Evaluation Tool that is built into the platform and collects feedback to support curation and remixing. See below for two videos demonstrating how you can use the features of OER Commons to evaluate OER and add to the OER iterative community.
- Video on using the Star and Comment features (___ minute watch)
- Video on using the Evaluation Rubric Tool (____minute watch)
- OERizona has developed their own evaluation criteria to focus on key indicators of quality for Arizona. These Standards and Criteria to support faculty in evaluating and creating OER are found on the OERizona Hub and will be demonstrated in the next section.