Research Guides: Open Educational Resources: Adopt OER

Evaluate OER

Achieve Rubrics
Achieve offers 8 rubrics to help educators determine the degree of alignment of OER to disciplinary standards and to determine other aspects of OER quality.

Achieve Rubrics
After 24 years in the K-12 education space, Achieve is shutting its doors. The website, www.achieve.org, will remain available through December 31, 2020.

CUNY OER Evaluation and Selection Criteria
This list of criteria is suitable for any type of OER, including an open textbook or individual OER artifacts/objects.
Assessing Commercial Platforms that Utilize OER
Crowd-sourced details about commercial OER platforms.
Cool4Ed Accessibility Tools
The COOL4Ed accessibility open textbook evaluations can inform faculty, staff, and students how the free and open etextbooks meet 15 accessibility “checkpoints” that could impact the learning of learners with a range of disabilities.

Know the Creative Commons licenses

Unless the OER is in the Public Domain, the educational resource will likely have a Creative Commons (CC) license applied. See below for a detailed look at the rights granted by the various CC license types.