Open Educational Resources

These evaluation tools focus on content and pedagogical aspects of materials. Although these rubrics were initially designed for elementary school teachers, you can adapt them to other levels. The guiding questions will still be relevant. Simply select the accreditation standards / competencies that you want to use as your criteria instead of the Common Core Standards. Note: Use the download button on Issuu itself, not the prominent ads surrounding the tool.

This evaluation tool provides chunks of criteria to evaluate with a 5-point scale and some guiding questions to help you decide if the resource is good enough for your needs.

This checklist has simple yes/no and comment sections for different criteria. It includes sections on the content’s relevance, quality, opportunities for engagement, etc. Some of the questions may not be relevant for the types of courses that you teach. You can simply skip those questions.

This checklist is a simple, easy-to-use tool for quickly evaluating a resource. From BCOER.