OER:

How can we evaluate them?

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 Criteria for evaluating OER

• Licence
• Audience
• Access for learners
• Also general learning and teaching criteria
already informing practice

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 JISC OER Info Kit – quality criteria

• Accuracy
• Reputation of author/institution
• Standard of technical production 
• Accessibility 
• Fitness for purpose

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Intute Resource

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 Intute – Who?
Can you trust the source?
• Author
 Named, anonymous or pseudonym?
 Expert or amateur?
• Formal or informal?
• Publisher
 Self-publishing
 Third-party publishers
• Reviewer

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 Intute - What? and When?
Can you trust the content?
• Fitness for purpose
• Accuracy
• Validity
• Standard of technical production

Does the date the information was produced and

published affect its value?

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So, what’s our
checklist?

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 Use the checklist to evaluate

1. Decide which resources you’d like to have a closer

look at.
2. Evaluate two or more or them using the checklist
3. Share your evaluation in your small group
4. (±) Summarise the main points from your evaluation
for discussion in the large group

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 Key policy implications for CPUT

• Intellectual Property Rights

• ICT
• QA
• HR

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 This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

Adapted from: Tessa Welch/Tony Mays

Contact: tonym@saide.org.za

By Tony Lelliott

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