The OER Knowledge Cloud makes use of cookies. By continuing, you consent to this use. More information.
Critical evaluation of quality criteria and quality instruments in OER repositories for the encouragement of effective teacher engagement
Connell, Marina and Connell, John

PublishedJanuary 2020
Type of workWhite paper
PublisherEuropean Schoolnet
RegionEurope

ABSTRACT
This paper offers a short evaluation of the variety of quality criteria used in Open Educational Resources and some of the methods and practices in use to ensure quality. The paper surveys and reviews effective practices and technologies used in learning object repositories to more effectively engage educators in providing structured feedback. The aim is to provide a useful resource to repository owners and managers seeking to develop and improve on the services they already offer to educators. An important additional aim is to support teachers in using digital learning resources in the classroom so that the deployment of OER in schools in particular might grow and flourish over the next few years. ‘Quality’ is by no means a simple concept to define in the context of OER repositories and the paper seeks to lay out a number of different ways in which the concept can be analysed and made useful. The paper was produced through a short-term qualitative analysis in which we examined a number of existing OER repositories, a wide range of academic and other writings on the subject, a small number of interviews with key experts and some published slideware relevant to the subject. The paper offers a set of potential further research questions as well as a distillation of a number of ‘actionable points’ that OER leaders might be able to use as starting points for ongoing development work on their own quality assurance systems.

Keywords quality · quality criteria · quality circle · collective intelligence · evaluation · OER · repository

LanguageEnglish
URLhttp://lre.eun.org/wp/LRE_White_paper_003.pdf
Export optionsBibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar



AVAILABLE FILES
LRE_White_paper_003.pdf · 1.4MB20 downloads



Viewed by 213 distinct readers




CLOUD COMMUNITY REVIEWS

The evaluations below represent the judgements of our readers and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Cloud editors.

Click a star to be the first to rate this document


POST A COMMENT
SIMILAR RECORDS

Quality assurance in the open: An evaluation of OER repositories
Atenas, Javiera; Havemann, Leo
The World OER Declaration 2012 recommends that States join efforts to facilitate finding, retrieving and sharing OER. The OER movement has thus far spurred the creation of numerous repository initiatives worldwide with ...
Match: repositories; evaluation; OER; Europe

Lista de comprobación de calidad de un Recurso Educativo Abierto
Alberdi, Lola
Los docentes siempre han compartido sus recursos e ideas con los colegas de profesión, bien en forma de sencillos consejos y comentarios en la sala de profesores, compartiendo materiales educativos de referencia o ...
Match: quality; evaluation; OER; Europe

Repositories of open educational resources: An assessment of reuse and educational aspects
Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Abadal, Ernest
This article provides an overview of the current state of repositories of open educational resources (ROER) in higher education at international level. It analyses a series of educational indicators to determine whether ...
Match: repositories; evaluation; OER

UNESCO OER Dynamic Coalition Consultations
UNESCO
Following the adoption of the OER Recommendation in November 2019, UNESCO launched the OER Dynamic Coalition in March 2020. The launch meeting defined a Roadmap for the activities of the Dynamic Coalition. The Coalition ...
Match: quality; OER; Europe

OER: A European policy perspective
Sabadie, Jesús Maria Alquézar; Muñoz, Jonatan Castaño; Punie, Yves; Redecker, Christine; Vuorikari, Riina
The potential benefits of OER have led many European governments to implement policies supporting their creation and use. This chapter aims to put these OER policies in context, discussing their focus and scope and ...
Match: OER; Europe

Wikiwijs: An unexpected journey and the lessons learned towards OER
Schuwer, Robert; Kreijns, Karel; Vermeulen, Marjan
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science has funded a five years program to encourage the use, creation and sharing of Open Educational Resources (OER) by teachers from various types of education. This ...
Match: OER; repository; Europe

Pedagogical framing of OER - The case of language teaching
Bradley, Linda; Vigmo, Sylvi
This study investigates what characterises teachers’ pedagogical design of OER, and potential affordances and constraints in pedagogical design in an open education practice, when contributing to a Swedish repository ...
Match: OER; repository; Europe

A practice-oriented review of learning objects
Sinclair, Jane; Joy, Mike; Yin-Kim Yau, Jane; Hagan, Stephen
Reusable learning objects support packaging of educational materials allowing their discovery and reuse. Open educational resources emphasize the need for open licensing and promote sharing and community involvement. ...
Match: repositories; quality

An OER COUP: College teacher and student perceptions of Open Educational Resources
Bliss, TJ; Robinson, Jared T.; Hilton, John; Wiley, David A.
Despite increased development and dissemination, there has been very little empirical research on Open Educational Resources (OER). Teachers and students involved in a large-scale OER initiative at eight community ...
Match: quality; OER

Quality indicators within the use of open educational resources in higher education
E.Ossiannilsson; Creelman, A.; Mendez-Vilas, A.
A paradigm shift is emerging in higher education especially regarding how universities should address personalized and collaborative mobile learning. Experiences from three international benchmarking-projects through ...
Match: quality; OER