The OER Accessibility Evaluation Rubric is an evaluation tool for faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and other stakeholders in open educational resources to determine the accessibility of the OER they are creating and/or adopting for use in their courses.

Open educational resources are openly available educational materials licensed with permission for users to apply the 5Rs: retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. These materials come in many different forms, but they are often used to replace commercial materials in order to help reduce the cost of education for students.

This rubric is designed similar to common online course evaluation rubrics, except it is specifically detailed toward OER and their accessibility. Intended for instructors who are either developing OER and need help making their work accessible or are evaluating OER for use in their classes and need to determine if the work is accessible already, the goal of this project is to help minimize the design quality issue in OER at the course and instructor level.

The rubric is split into three sections: Open Access, Digital Access, and Pedagogical Access.

Accessibility Note: Because Google Forms does not include a mechanism to create accessible links, links to resources in this rubric will be formatted as such:

Affordable Learning Georgia (http://affordablelearninggeorgia.org)

There will be an opportunity to give us permission to share your evaluation openly. Openly shared accessibility evaluations can be viewed on our open spreadsheet, available on the accessibility resources page (https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/oer-accessibility-series-and-rubric). We encourage anyone evaluating existing OER to review the spreadsheet to compare your evaluation with any others who may have evaluated the same resource.

A printable version of this rubric is also available (https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/oer-accessibility-series-and-rubric).

This work by Tiffani Tijerina (tiffani.tijerina@usg.edu) for Affordable Learning Georgia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).