Title: Activity 4.7: Ensuring OER Quality
Course: Stage 4 Resources and OER > Section: 3. Resource Audit review & OER Quality

Purpose: to evaluate an OER that you have found for use in your course

Timing: 60 mins (20 in session & 40 post-session)

Tools: Embedded Google Form

Resources: OER Evaluation Table & Google Form: Evaluate your OER

Task: Explore what makes a good OER, and then evaluate your OER

- Examine the Criteria for what constitutes a good quality OER
- Then access the Google Form which corresponds to the evaluation criteria in the table.

Response:

- Within the Form, respond to the questions about your chosen OER
- Be sure to click on the 'Submit' button when you have completed the Form
- Your responses will be emailed to you for safekeeping in your own collection of course documents from the workshop series (Moodle Private Files area)
- Make a decision to use this OER (or not) depending on the outcome of your evaluation
- You can repeat this process as often as you like to evaluate the quality of other OERs.

Table 4.2: OER Evaluation Criteria (Adapted from Commonwealth of Learning, 2005)