How do we move OER from "free to use" to "trusted by all"? Join project leads from the U.S. federally funded Open 4 Peer Review initiative for a first look at a new framework designed to promote OER excellence. We’ve developed six rigorous rubrics covering the essentials: Accessibility, Copyright, Copyediting, Disciplinary Appropriateness, Instructional Design, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
This isn't just a presentation—it’s a lab. In this interactive session, you will gain access to the rubrics, "live-test" a rubric on an OER excerpt, and compare your findings with colleagues from around the world. Your feedback will directly shape the final version of these tools before they are published globally. Come help us build the infrastructure for high-quality, high-trust open education.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Apply specialized OER quality rubrics to evaluate academic content for specific criteria such as accessibility, copyright compliance, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
- Integrate a peer review framework into your local institutional OER workflows to increase faculty trust and streamline adoption, adaptation and/or creation of OER.
