Want to do your part to lower the cost of college textbooks? Consider reviewing a chapter or two of an open textbook for the Community College Open Textbook Project (http:// collegeopentextbooks.org). For examples of reviews, see http://collegeopentextbooks.org/reviewindex.html#statistics
Stipends are available. Select a few chapters or an entire textbook to review from the list of open textbooks (http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific/). Review Criteria Provide feedback for each chapter of an open textbook in terms of the following: 1. Clarity and comprehensibility - content, including the instructions and exercises 2. Accuracy and currency 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 For details, contact us at [email protected] Judy Baker, Dean Foothill College --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
