From: "Macklin, Lisa" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 21:36:28 +0000 The University of Minnesota hosts the Open Textbook Library which includes reviews of the open textbooks by faculty members. See: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ For an example of a review, see: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=28#Reviews Assessing the quality of open content is also the topic of the SPARC ACRL Forum on Saturday afternoon, June 28th at ALA Annual in Las Vegas, for those of you attending ALA who are interested in this topic. Time and room information will be announced later, and complete information will be added to ALA Scheduler when available. Cheers, Lisa Lisa A. Macklin, JD, MLS Director, Scholarly Communications Office Emory University Libraries and Information Technology Robert W. Woodruff Library 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, GA 30322 *********************** On 4/14/14, 8:04 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Richard James <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2014 11:42:36 -0400 MERLOT II (http://info.merlot.org/merlothelp/index.htm#merlot_collection.htm) lists OER of various media types that have been subject to its open peer-review process. The quality of their resources seems uniformly high, so you could do worse than select from what they have available. On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:04 AM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote: From: Charlotte Roh <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:29:50 -0400 Hm, this is interesting question. I know there are videos on how to evaluate websites or Wikipedia, but I don't know about OERs. This might be because there are so many different types of multimedia. We don't include evaluation on our libguide (http://guides.library.umass.edu/oer) but when I mention that certain resources are peer-reviewed, faculty definitely appreciate it. If you get any responses off list, I'd be interested to hear them! Best, Charlotte Charlotte Roh Scholarly Communications Resident Librarian W.E.B. Du Bois Library University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 Email: [log in to unmask] -----Original Message----- From: "TAYLOR, TUCKER" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 14:28:54 +0000 Hi all- I'm working on a libguide about open educational resources, mainly focused on materials used in teaching. I wanted to include a page about how to evaluate open educational resources. Can anyone point me to some good sources? I'm particularly interested in short video, but would be happy for any information that could be useful for my faculty and students to use to evaluate this information. Thanks very much- Tucky Tucker Taylor Head, Circulation Department Thomas Cooper Library University of South Carolina Columbia, SC 29208 [log in to unmask]