Peer review is a powerful means of quality assurance. How to evaluate Open Education Resources and rubrics are listed, for more details please read on : Evaluating #OER and Quality Control for #OER as Textbooks (http://classroom-aid.com/2013/05/10/evaluating-oer-and-quality-control-for-oer-as-textbooks/)

1. Evaluating OER
Jessie Chuang
www.Classroom-aid.com
License : CC BY-SAGraphic credit : Barbara Dieu

2. Rubric for OER
Achieve and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge
Management in Education (ISKME) released a new tool for
users to rate the quality of open education resources
(OER). The tool will allow educators to rate the quality of
these resources, enable educators to align content to the
Common Core Standards directly within OER Commons.
Achieve created a series of evaluation rubrics. These
rubrics are available online at www.achieve.org/oer-rubrics,
or you can Download the Rubrics.
OER Commons is now hosting the tool and its resulting
evaluation data on (www.oercommons.org).

3. Rubric I .
Degree of Alignment to Standards

4. Rubric II. Quality of Explanation of
the Subject Matter

5. Rubric III. Utility of Materials
Designed to Support Teaching

6. Rubric IV.
Quality of Assessment

7. Rubric V. Quality of Technological
Interactivity

8. Rubric VI. Quality of Instructional
Tasks and Practice Exercises

9. Rubric VII. Opportunities for
Deeper Learning

10. Rubric VIII. Assurance of
Accessibility
This rubric is used to assure materials are accessible to all
students, including students identified as blind, visually
impaired or print disabled, and those students who may
qualify under the Chafee Amendment to the U.S. 1931 Act
to Provide Books to the Adult Blind as Amended.
It was developed to assess compliance with U.S. standards
and requirements, but could be adapted to accommodate
differences in other sets of requirements internationally.

11. Quality General Guideline
● Are understandable and can be successfully used by
others
● Support sound pedagogical practice
● Advance professional learning and sharing
● Contain accurate and relevant content knowledge
● Are developmentally and culturally appropriate
(refer to OER Commons)