A&OER: Affordable & Open Educational Resources

This tool "...allows you to choose a policy statement in various categories and create an output of a completed Open Policy for your Institution."

This OER Assessment Rubric was built in RCampus. RCampus is an Education Management System and collaborative learning environment.

From Achieve.org. Achieve is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit education reform organization dedicated to working with states to raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments, and strengthen accountability. Created in 1996 by a bipartisan group of governors and business leaders, Achieve is leading the effort to make college and career readiness a priority across the country so that students graduating from high school are academically prepared for postsecondary success.

Also from Achieve.org, a more in-depth look at OER rubrics with explanations.

Authored by Irwin DeVries, Thompson River University, and presented at WCETR2012, the World Conference on Educational Technology Researchers

This checklist guide is a creation of BCOER, a group of British Columbia (Canada) post-secondary librarians working together to support the use of quality OERs. It is made available via BCcampus.ca under a Creative Commons license.

Blog post at The Campus Computing Project reporting on a winter 2015-2016 survey of 2,902 faculty at 29 two- and four- year colleges and universities by the Independent College Bookstore Association (ICBA)

"The goal of the OER Accessibility Toolkit is to provide the needed resources to each content creator, instructor, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open and accessible educational resource — one that is accessible for all students."

The Open Textbook Network promotes access, affordability, and student success through the use of open textbooks. UMKC is a member of the Open Textbook Network through MOBIUS.

SPARC is a global coalition committed to making Open the default for research and education. SPARC empowers people to solve big problems and make new discoveries through the adoption of policies and practices that advance Open Access, Open Data, and Open Education.

Connect OER is a platform to share and discover information about OER activities at campuses across North America.

"The Open Education Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations committed to advancing open education and its impact on global education. We envision a world where everyone, everywhere has access to the education they need to build their futures."

Focused on OER, accessibility, and quality requirements for grant deliverables in the U.S. Department of Labor’s Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College & Career Training (TAACCCT) program. Resources applicable outside of this narrow scope, however!