The Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Texas Wesleyan University (CETL) promotes a student-centered university by providing resources and professional growth opportunities to faculty on enhancing instructional practice, integrating technology and promoting essential student skills.
The CETL staff can help with course design, so please contact the CETL for help with incorporating OER into new or current courses you teach.
Affordable Learning Georgia Tutorial: Creating and Modifying Open Educational Resources - this is an excellent tutorial on how to create your own OER and adapt others' OER to your course.
Consider the following factors when selecting Open Education Resources to adapt or adopt:
In addition to keeping the 5Rs (Retain. Reuse. Revise. Remix. Redistribute) in mind when adopting, adapting or building OER resources and courses, using rubrics or other evaluative tools to measure effectiveness, accessibility and alignment to student learning outcomes are key. Linked below are several examples of rubrics. Some of the example rubrics are designed to evaluate overall OER courses and not individual OER course materials.
This set of criteria are intended to assist faculty and departments in evaluating the instructional quality of existing and newly-created open textbooks and open ancillary materials.
This is the review rubric that is used in the Open Textbook Network's Library, developed by BCcampus.
Developed by BCCampus OpenEd Resources (BCOER), this document provides a checklist of traits to look out for in OER.
Achieve.org has developed a rubric with 8 core principles found in high quality OER.
This guide page is adapted from: "Open Educational Resources: Create" by Northwestern Michigan College Library is licensed under CC BY 4.0
