The Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR.org)
To help campuses ensure that their online courses are learner centered and well designed, a team of Open SUNY staff and campus stakeholders has designed the OSCQR rubric, a customizable and flexible tool for online course quality review.
7 Things You Should Know About Open Textbook Publishing -- Educause, March 2011
OER has emerged as a response to rising text prices, a need for greater access to high-quality learning materials, the proliferation of e-reader devices, and a trend in publishing toward electronic media.