From: A framework for assessing fitness for purpose in open educational resources
Criteria |
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Legal and Technical |
1) The OER accords with copyright laws (Commons License) and is correctly cited/acknowledged. |
2) The OER can be easily reused, revised, remixed and shared with other materials to meet particular teaching-learning needs of the course. |
3) The user-interface components (buttons, menus, icons, scroll bars, etc.) are arranged consistently and allow the learners to navigate the site easily. |
Content |
4) The content is correct and up to date. |
5) The content includes significant concepts, models and skills appropriate for the discipline. |
6) The content is appropriate to the learners’ knowledge, skills and abilities. |
7) The content is culturally appropriate and contains no racial or gender bias. |
Pedagogy |
8) The OER is used to present relevant real-life tasks or problems that progress from simple to complex. |
9) The OER can be readily integrated into the current curriculum and pedagogy. |
10) The OER can be easily integrated into and improve a variety of courses and teaching/learning environments. |
11) The OER is used to gain students’ attention and to develop their interest in the new learning. |
12) The OER is used to devise interactive ways of using OER to promote students’ engagement in the problem-solving process. |
13) The OER is used to help students recall, relate or apply prior knowledge, skills or experience as a basis for the new learning. |
14) The OER is used to present new content appropriate to the students’ needs and abilities. |
15) The OER integrates multimedia that extend the amount and nature of the content. |
16) The OER provides supplementary/enhancement materials that extend and enrich the teaching/learning. |
17) The OER facilitates flexible learning by allowing the learners to control the rate, order and nature of their learning. |
18) The OER enables transfer of the new learning to different tasks/problems/contexts. |
19) The OER promotes students’ reflection on the new learning and their own learning. |
20) The OER promotes students’ discussion and debate to construct their own learning. |
21) The OER includes interactive instructional activities. |