1. Study on Innovative Trends, Worldwide, in Digital Educational Resources (DER) (2019) by Tracey Tokuhama -
Espinosa, Ph.D., Cynthia Borja, Ph.D. and Mishel Tirira, BA, Table 14, p.137.
Table 14 originally from p.137 of the study written for IPANC-CAB in 2019:
CONEXIONES: Rubric to evaluate Digital Educational Resources (DER)*
CRITERION 1 2 3 4
Objective(s) and goal(s)
The resource identifies clear educational objective(s).
The objectives and content are easily understood.
Legal and technical (intellectual property)
The DER is consistent with copyright laws (Open or Creative Commons License)
and is properly cited or acknowledged.
The DER can be easily reused, revised, remixed, and shared with other materials
to meet the unique teaching and learning needs of the course.
User interface components (buttons, menus, icons, scroll bars, etc.) are
consistently arranged and allow students to easily navigate the site.
The screen design and navigation systems are attractive according to the target
audience.
Contents
The content is correct and up-to-date.
The content includes significant concepts, models and principles or the like, and
skills appropriate to the discipline and allows deep understanding in accordance
with the target group.

2. Study on Innovative Trends, Worldwide, in Digital Educational Resources (DER) (2019) by Tracey Tokuhama -
Espinosa, Ph.D., Cynthia Borja, Ph.D. and Mishel Tirira, BA, Table 14, p.137.
The content is appropriate for the knowledge, abilities and skills of the students.
The content is culturally appropriate and does not contain any racial or gender
bias.
References: The resource cites its references (sources of information).
Consistency with citations: what is stated by the resources are consistent with
their references.
Concise, precise, and adequate content: The resource contains an adequate
amount of information for its duration in the application and use process.
Pedagogy and didactics (effectiveness in terms of learning)
The DER is used to present relevant real life tasks or problems that progress
from the simple to the complex.
DER can be easily integrated into current curriculum and pedagogy.
DER can be easily integrated into and enhance a variety of courses and
teaching/learning environments.
DER wins and maintains students' attention and interest.
The DER is used to devise interactive ways to leverage digital educational
resources to promote student engagement in the problem-solving process.
The DER helps students recall, relate to, or apply prior knowledge, skills,
experience, etc.
Background: The resource provides sufficient background information to place
the learner in the context of prior knowledge.

3. Study on Innovative Trends, Worldwide, in Digital Educational Resources (DER) (2019) by Tracey Tokuhama -
Espinosa, Ph.D., Cynthia Borja, Ph.D. and Mishel Tirira, BA, Table 14, p.137.
The DER is used to introduce new content appropriate to students' needs and
abilities.
The DER integrates multimedia that extends the quantity and nature of the
content.
The DER provides supplementary materials, which extend and enrich teaching
and learning.
The DER facilitates flexible learning by allowing students to control the speed,
order, and nature of their learning.
The DER provides a solid framework for the development of knowledge and
skills.
The DER allows the transfer of new learning to different tasks, problems and
contexts.
The DER promotes student reflection on new learning and their own learning.
DER allows students to consolidate their learning or build personal meaning
through reflection, debate, demonstration of new knowledge or skills, etc.
The DER includes interactive instructional activities.
The DER provides opportunities for task analysis and real-world practical
problem solving.
Moderation: Interactions between students are effectively moderated, to
ensure proper conduct by students.
Design/Usability/Technical characteristics
The DER facilitates the understanding of content thanks to its diversity of

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elements and hyperlinks of text, images, audio, video and others.
Use of language adapted to the objectives and audience : The resource uses an
efficient and precise language that is appropriate for its target audience* 1*
The instructional design focuses on the key aspects of learning and is devoid of
distracting features.
The DER contains embedded commentary, support, and evaluation.
The design encourages repetition**2**
, periodicity, review, reproduction, among
others, necessary to learn.
Instructional Design/Community/Support/Accessibility Improvement
It provides open, accessible and quality content for a broad community of
teachers and students.
Editorial process: An editorial process is identified. Best practices are shared and
help avoid reinventing the wheel.
Editor: It is clear who published the resource.
The editorial process is explicit and clear, it is independent of sponsors, conflict
of interest and other sources of bias, and it is recognized in the product
obtained.
It helps developing countries to improve and extend learning to facilitate
development opportunities.
It offers non-formal and informal ways of developing learning and skills for
1* This indicator is located in "Design" and not in "Content" because the international rubrics on DER consider it as
a design element.
2** Repetition is necessary to strengthen the memory of new constructs. The word is not used in the traditional
way, but as it is used in neuroscience.

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formal study.
Facilitates the inclusion of traditionally excluded students.
It improves the quality of mainstream education and online education, by
achieving greater awareness of open and inclusive educational practices and of
diverse perspectives within fields of study.
The resource has user guides, video tutorials and other materials that help users
manage the resource.
It allows collaboration between institutions, sectors, disciplines and countries.
universal technology. The resource employs technologies that are universally
available to allow access for students with standard software and equipment.
Maintenance: The resource is maintained so that its text and multimedia
elements remain functional.