Finding and evaluating Open Educational Resources

SCORE Short term Fellowship Residential Course

11th April 2011

Creator:Non ScantleburyThe Open University Library Services

Licensed for reuse under:Creative Commons Share Alike

Finding and evaluating OER

Presentation (30 mins)• How can you find relevant OER?• What criteria could you use to evaluate OER?• “Hands on” activity (30 mins)

-find a OER on a topic of our own choosing by querying two OER specific search engines-use the checklist supplied to evaluate your OER (30 mins)

• Debate- (30 mins) share the evaluation and how easy it would be to adapt for your own learning and teaching purposes

Example of how The Open University Library Services are promoting use of OER in developing learning materials

Example of how The Open University Library Services are promoting use of OER in developing learning materials

https://openeducationalresources.pbworks.com/w/page/24836480/Home

http://wikieducator.org/OER_Handbook/educator_version_one

http://labspace.open.ac.uk/

http://www.jorum.ac.uk/

Finding and evaluating OER

Key evaluation criteria:

• Accuracy

• Reputation of author/institution

• Standard of technical production

• Accessibility

• Fitness for purpose

• Clear rights declarations e.g. Creative Commons

Finding and evaluating OER“Hands on” activity:1) Using the search engines page available on the JISC Infonet Toolkit site to select at least 2 search engines to query and locate an OER on a topic of your own choosing (or chose to search on the topic of “software engineering”

2) Use the checklist available to evaluate the OER you have found

3) Share your evaluation with your fellows and how easy it would be to adapt and reuse for your own purposes

How will you take the learning back to your

organisation?

Thank you for your time!

Finding and evaluating OER