Title: Activity 1.3 - Experience practical OER evaluating
Course: Working with Open Educational Resources (OERs) > Section: Topic 1: Open Educational Resources (OER) Concepts

Aim: To analyse and evaluate an OER found in an OER repository

Motivation: To be able to identify and use quality OERs which align with  your requirements

Tools: Discussion forum; OER Commons online Evaluation tool;

Task: Experience practical OER evaluation

Resources:  Achieve OER Rubrics and Evaluation Toolkit (http://achieve.org/files/AchieveOERRubrics.pdf)

What to do:

- Explore the Achieve Rubric and Evaluation Toolkit
- Find a useful OER on OER Commons
- Evaluate the OER using the OER Commons online facility.

How:

- Register on OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/registration
- After registration, within the repository, search for OERs that are relevant to your academic field by using the ‘browse by topic’ facility.
- Select one resource and analyze its learning objects. Use the “evaluate” button (found in the column on the right hand side of the screen) to assess the resource.
- Comment on your experience of the OER Commons evaluation process in the forum for this activity.

Duration: 75 Minutes

Feedback:

- Peer Review (You can follow through the discussion forum for feedback from peers).
- Read and respond constructively to at least one other persons’ contribution.
- Read other peoples’ responses to your own contribution and reflect on the comments.

Assessment:

Completion of this activity will count towards your course portfolio.