Evaluate like an historian.
Historical source evaluation is applicable to Open Education Resources (OER) too...
We know you can ask and answer difficult historical questions and use historical ways of thinking to evaluate sources. Now you can apply those same ways of thinking and questioning to evaluate the sources of information you will use with your students.
Comparison and evaluation.
Finding, choosing, comparing, evaluating, and adapting are all great adjectives. They are also necessary steps in creating learning activities and content for your students.
To choose appropriate secondary sources for your students you need to combine your:
- historical source evaluation skills
- what you know about creative commons, copyright, attribution
- your knowledge of your students and how they learn
For example, this is something the library team created to get students thinking about evaluating primary sources.
In the spirit of creating and sharing great OER content, let's think about what makes a good OER. There are heaps of checklists to get you started including:
Let's compare the pair.
Open these two Open Education Resources (OER)
World Civilisation and World History: Culture, States and Societies to 1500.
Now compare them using the criteria listed in the H5P drag and drop activity.
When you have decided which book best meets that criteria, drag and drop it into the corresponding column.