Demonstration of OER Evaluation Tools
Overview
This resource is part of the OERizona Advanced Course. This section explores the tools of OER evaluation that support discoverability and iteration of OER. In this section, the user can see a sample demonstration on how to use the evaluation tools that are built into OER Commons.
OER Evaluation Goals
In this section, we will demonstrate how to use the built-in Evaluation tools on the OER Commons platform. As a reminder, evaluation is a key aspect of iteration and continued improvement. Open Educational Resources (OER) are designed to be discoverable, dynamic resources, which are iterated, thus benefitting both the creator and the user.
- OER authors have chosen to license their work with open licenses so their resources can be found and used by others. Many OER creators also are actively interested in feedback and collaboration.
- OER users can contribute to the OER community by leaving supportive and evaluative feedback so that other users can see different viewpoints. This also supports authors as they iterate their work.
OER Evaluation can incorporate many different quality indicators. In this section, we will demonstrate the use of two rubrics.
- A nonprofit education organization called Achieve has created a rubric for evaluting OER with special focus on criteria that are unique to OER.
- OERizona also has a quality review rubric. Using these tools can help provide similar frames of reference across Arizona as users seek to compare reiews and compare resources.
Using the OER Evaluation Tools
OER Commons is designed to allow three different types of evaluation tools.
- Star rating - this tool is on the main information page about each resource and allows registered users to leave ratings using sras up to 5 stars total. This allows users to provide a quick set of feedback for an overall, quantitative rating.
- Comments - OER Commons has a comment section for each resrouce. Registered users can leave individual, open-ended comments on each resource. Some networks and collaborative communities may choose to use specific sentence stems to represent cohesive, systematic review systems. Any qualitative feedback left in the OER Achieve Rubric will also populate as comments.
- Achieve OER Rubric - OER Commons was designed to have an embedded evaluation tool to allow users to qualitiatively and quantitatively evaluate resources. This allows users to see feedback that are aligned with quality indicators as. The Rubric has number scores for each indicator as well as space for qualitative feedback. The qualitattive feedback populates as comments and the quantative scores are averaged and can be used to sort search results.
The OERizona rubric has multiple indicators of quality. These can be populated into the OER Commons review features by using the comment feature, as seen in the demonstration below.
Demonstration of OER Evaluation Tools
Joanna to film video of evaluating this resource.