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Find, Author, and Share Open Textbooks
Course Material
- Final Community Meeting Presentations: Thursday, March 10th Pacific Time (NOW ARCHIVED)
- Community Meeting - Thursday, March 3rd (NOW ARCHIVED)
- Community Meeting - Thursday, Feb 24th: (NOW ARCHIVED).
- Syllabus for Find, Author, and Share Open Textbooks
- Glossary
- Collaboration Tools
- First Orientation Meeting: January 27, Thursday, 4:00 pm (NOW ARCHIVED)
- Community Meeting - Thursday, Feb. 3, 4:00 pm (NOW ARCHIVED)
- Community Meeting - Thursday, Feb. 17, 4:00 PM (NOW ARCHIVED)
- Week 1: Introductions and Project Team Formations (Jan 26-Feb2)
- Week 2: Finding and Selecting Open Textbooks and OER (Feb 2-9)
- Week 3: Open Licensing and Accessibility Considerations (Feb 9-16)
- Week 4: Authoring Tools and Hosting Platforms (Feb 16-23)
- Week 5: Author-Adopter Communities and Sustainability (Feb 23-Mar 2)
- Week 6: Project Team Wrap-up and Sharing (Mar 2-10)
- What is P2PU?
- What is CCCOER?
- What is Wikieducator?
- Open Content Repositories
- College Open Textbooks Peer Reviews
- Open Licensing Compatibility
- WCAG 2.0 POUR Matrix
College Open Textbooks Peer Reviews
Let's look at how COT does reviews.
From the COT website, you click on the Open Textbook Content link in the left navigation bar, then click on the The Reviews link from the menu that appears. From there a sub menu will open with subject area choices.
If you do not see your subject on this list, choose an area that is close. You may have to search a few of the listed subjects to find the one you want. For example, both algebra and statistics are under mathematics. Marketing is under business and the science category includes physics, chemistry and other sciences.
An Example Review with Criteria Explained
Once you've chosen a book by clicking on its title, you will see the review summary. Below are two different reviews of the same book.
The first is review by Jonathan Harden, MBA.
The second review is by Mitchell Levy - CEO of Happy About.
Note that each reviewer scored the book differently although both reviews were favorable. Reviewers score each chapter for the following criteria.
1. Clarity and comprehensibility - content, including the instructions and exercises
2. Accuracy - this requires subject matter expertise
3. Readability - in terms of logic, sequencing, and flow
4. Consistency of course materials - consistency in the content language and use of key terms as is necessary to facilitate understanding by novice users
5. Appropriateness of content - appropriateness of the material for community college level courses
6. Interface - technological issues such as broken links, improperly displayed graphics, and ease of navigation
7. Content usefulness - the ways in which the content could be useful for teachers, students, and those with a general interest in the subject area
8. Modularity - the ability to adapt, rearrange, add, delete and modify the content by sections
9. Content errors - the presence or absence of factual errors, grammatical errors, and typographical errors in the content
10. Reading level - appropriate for community college level students
11. Cultural relevance - use of examples that are inclusive of diverse races and ethnicities
