Towards Defining Quality Criteria for Digital Educational Resources in Distance Learning

In the engineering career, continuing education is increasingly important. In fact, being updated with new technologies and their usage is mandatory for engineers that want to stay connected with the new trends. In this context, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support online courses mediated through the web is something that can speed up one's continuous education. Therefore, the adoption of Learning Objects (LO) and Open Educational Resources (OER) to support online courses is a reality worldwide. LO follows description standards for ease of storage and retrieval, and OER has by definition the open license for editing and use. Nevertheless, no guarantee about the quality associated with such digital educational resources is provided. In this work, we present a step for the definition of the main criteria that will serve as a basis to evaluate the technical quality of the DER either automatically or semi-automatically.