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• Achieve OER Rubrics
• iRubric for OER
• Faculty Guide for Evaluating OER (BC Campus)

OER Treasure Hunt Worksheet

Use this worksheet to help you organize the resources you find and determine which might be best for your course.

When considering an OER for a course, there a few things to consider.  Just like selecting a textbook, you should evaluate the OER to make sure it is meeting the needs of the course, yourself, your students, and our institution.  Achieve, an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform organization, has established rubrics for evaluating OER, and these rubrics are used in the OER Commons website to evaluate OER.  They have identified eight areas to consider (see below):

Below are links to rubrics aligned to and adapted from the Achieve rubrics that will help you evaluate OER. 

• Alignment to Standards Rubric
• Quality of Explanation of the Subject Matter Rubric
• Utility of Materials Designed to Support Teaching
• Quality of Assessments Rubric
• Quality of Technological Interactivity
• Quality of Instructional and Practice Exercises
• Opportunities for Deeper Learning Rubric
• Assurance of Accessibility Standards

The ASCCC's OERI often seeks out faculty to serve in a variety of roles. This application process will create a pool of faculty from which reviewers are selected for newly developed resources, there is a need for a faculty from a broad array of disciplines - including those who may or may not have experience with OER.

The ASCCC OERI Application (Links to an external siteneeds to be completed if you are interested in any OERI role. Interested faculty will need to complete BOTH the OERI application and the ASCCC Faculty Application for Statewide Service (Links to an external site