7 Content for Module 3
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Warm-Up Activity
Please watch this video (2:12 minutes) and complete the following questionnaire before viewing the pre-recorded lecture for Module 3.
Video Attribution: Blair, J. (2022, January 27). Searching for OERs: Where to start [Video file]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c0Xhn64vS8 / Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
Questionnaire Questions
Your answers to this brief questionnaire will only be viewed by the program facilitators.
1. How would you describe your familiarity with OER repositories, such as eCampusOntario’s Open Library or the Open Textbook Library?
- Excellent
- Very Good
- Good
- Poor
2. Have you ever used resources from OER repositories in your teaching?
- Yes
- No
- Unsure
3. List any questions you have about finding and evaluating OER that you hope will be answered in Module 3.
- Allow for open-ended responses
Pre-Recorded Lecture for Module 3: Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resources
After you complete the pre-recorded lecture content, you will be able to:
- Create strategic search strategies to search major OER repositories and locate resources that could be integrated into your OER project.
- Evaluate OER using high-quality OER evaluation rubrics and checklists.
- Transcript to videos in pre-recorded lecture (new tab)
- Slides for Pre-recorded lecture (Google Slides – new tab)
Building Block Activity
Introduction:
During the pre-recorded lecture for Module 3, we discussed how to find and evaluate OER. This building block activity will help you find and evaluate OER that you can incorporate into your own OER project.
Instructions:
Complete the Finding & Locating OER Worksheet (new tab) (approximately 20 to 30 minutes).
Optional:
Please consider posting your answers to Part 5: Reflect to the below Forum and also commenting on 1 to 2 other participants’ answers.
Recommended Due Date:
[Due date]
Additional Resources
Detailed List of OER by Discipline:
- OER By Discipline Guide by University of Ottawa (new tab): The openly-licensed guide suggests open educational resources for courses at the University of Ottawa.
- BCcampus’ Adoption Finder (Google Spreadsheet): This Google Spreadsheet lists open textbooks that are used by courses at colleges, institutes, and universities in British Columbia.
OER Tracking Spreadsheet
- Finding & Evaluating OER Tracking Spreadsheet (Google Spreadsheet): This spreadsheet will help you track the OER you find and would like to use in your courses or AIF project.
Detailed Rubrics for Evaluating Open Resources:
- BC OER Librarians’ OER checklist (PDF): This checklist is succinct, easy to follow, and can be used to evaluate a variety of OER.
- Achieve’s Rubric for Evaluating Open Education Resources Objects (PDF): Achieve, an educational non-profit in the U.S., has developed a more extensive rubric to use when evaluating the appropriateness and quality of OER. This rubric uses 8 evaluation criteria. This 2-page chart summarizes the evaluation criteria in a more succinct format.
- iRubric’s Evaluating OER rubric (new tab): Developed by RCampus, a business focused on creating educational productivity tools, this rubric provides a list of recommended questions to ask yourself when selecting an OER.
- BC Open Textbook Accessibility Toolkit (new tab): While this open textbook helps OER content creators develop accessible resources, its accessibility checklist is a useful resource to consult when determining if an OER is accessible.
- OER Evaluation Criteria by Affordable Learning Georgia (PDF): This checklist is a list of questions that can be used to evaluate an OER.
