Handbooks & guides
- Interested in conducting research on OER use?The OER Research Toolkit is comprised of the OER Research Guidebook and several additional resources from the Open Education Group.
Tools to assess OER quality
Once you have found OER content, you may want to grade the quality in a consistent way. Below are two content quality assessment tools!
- Sample rubric to evaluate OER textbooks.Open Textbooks Review Criteria from the Open Textbooks Network.
- Sample Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources (from BCOER).This guide is a creation of the BCOER, a group of BC postsecondary librarians working together to support the use of quality Open Educational Resources (OER). For more information about BCOER and its activities, go to open.bccampus.ca.