LibGuides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Tools for Evaluating OER

Making Institutional OER Policies

OER Policy Development Tool (LumenLearning)
This tool "...allows you to choose a policy statement in various categories and create and output of a completed Open Policy for your Institution."

Evaluating OER - an iRubric
This OER Assessment Rubric was built in RCampus. RCampus is an Education Management System and collaborative learning environment.
Open Education Resources Evaluation Rubric
From Achieve.org. Achieve is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform organization dedicated to working with states to raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments, and strengthen accountability. Created in 1996 by a bipartisan group of governors and business leaders, Achieve is leading the effort to make college and career readiness a priority across the country so that students graduating from high school are academically prepared for postsecondary success. (Click "more" for URL for more on Achieve's mission)
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http://achieve.org/what-we-do
Rubrics for Evaluating Open Educational Resource (OER) Objects
Also from Achieve.org, a more in-depth look at OER rubrics with explanations.

Evaluating Open Educational Resources: Lessons Learned
Authored by Irwin DeVries, Thompson River University, and presented at WCETR2012, the World Conference on Educational Technology Researchers
Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Educational Resources
This checklist guide is a creation of BCOER, a group of British Columbia (Canada) post-secondary librarians working together to support the use of quality OERs. It is made available via BCcampus.ca under a Creative Commons license (click "more" for URL for license link).
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
GOING DIGITAL: Faculty Pespectives on Digital and OER Course Materials
Blog post at The Campus Computing Project reporting on a winter 2015-2016 survey of 2,902 faculty at 29 two- and four- year colleges and universities by the Independent College Bookstore Association (ICBA)
OER Accessibility Toolkit - University of British Columbia
"The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources needed to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students."

OER Accessibility Toolkit
The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources needed to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students.
WAVE Browser Extension
Use WAVE - web accessibility evaluation tool - to check the accessibility of individual Webpages in an OER or in Canvas with the WAVE Browser Extension
MERLOT OER Accessibility
Enable educational institutions to find the expertise and the professional development resources that will improve their capacity to deliver a quality education reliably and in a timely manner to all students, including those with disabilities. Build a collection of quality and accessible OER that can be reliably used by all students and faculty
Build a community of organizations and individuals whose accessibility expertise and exemplary practices can be more easily and effectively be institutionalized by education

Introduction to Web Accessibility by Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School
Publication Date: 2019
With raised awareness and accessibility laws emerging around the world, understanding what inclusive access to the Web means is becoming necessary knowledge for anyone who produces digital content. Much of the current information on Web accessibility requires some technical understanding, and may be difficult to consume for the average person. The instruction here will “interpret” the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1), to make it easier to understand for a general audience. You will have an opportunity to experience barriers firsthand, then experience that content with the barriers removed, developing a practical understanding of web accessibility.