Rubric Techniques for Analyzing Usefulness of Open Educational Resources

Abstract

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are those open-licensed resources that anybody can reuse in different contexts and are available without any financial burden. COVID-19 pandemic has shown an unpredictable shift of teaching and learning activities in school education in virtual mode. Indian school educators have started taking online classes to engage students in carrying out their routine academic activities. Parallelly, the school librarians have also developed new skills to assist educators by providing the required resources or helping them carry out online classes. The situation has paved the way for OERs to be adapted in numerous academic contexts. Librarians provide various OERs to their users in multiple formats, namely audio, video, PDF files, flipbooks and websites. But a practical exercise that schools should carry out before they provide OERs to their students and educators is to analyse the resources to find out their suitability for use in classrooms and the students’ purpose of learning. The paper’s objective is to apply the rubric’s techniques checklist, rating and analytics scale rubrics to analyse the usefulness of the OERs. School educators, librarians and students are slowly becoming the vital users of OERs in the Indian education environment. Adopting the method of analysing the usefulness of OERs will help identify the context in which the school educators can use them to provide the best OERs to their students.