The quality criteria presented in the form of a checklist are intended as assistance to authors and users of open educational resources and the organisations behind them. The quality criteria will:
- help authors create resources of a higher quality from the perspective of openness;
- help users in quality assessment as they are reviewing open educational resources;
- give the background organisations a tool they can use for facilitating the preparation and evaluation of open educational resources as part of other guidelines and instructions provided by the organisation.
The guidelines define five different quality criteria for open educational resources and more detailed quality dimensions for each of them.
