Review and Feedback

Textbook Success Program: Session 9

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Reminders

• Assign responsibilities for content creation and editing
• Adapt the author guide
• Set up your project management infrastructure (tracking sheets)
• Plan for a sample chapter
• Discuss how to incorporate accessibility into your authoring and editing workflows

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Agenda

Today, we’ll take a look at:

• Why review is important for OER
• Different types of review
• The review process
• Managing revisions
• How to use review to bolster promotion of your resource

Publishing Process Overview

Project Scoping

Growing & Managing Teams

Creating and Editing Content

Feedback and Review

Storytelling and Communications

Preparing for Release

Adoptions and Post-release

Accessibility and Inclusive Design

I = Introductory steps to build skills, knowledge, attitudes�D = Developing skills, knowledge, attitudes

A = Advancing skills, knowledge, attitudes

Purpose and Types of Review

Peer Review

• Most familiar type of review
• Carries perceived prestige
• Can be done either anonymously or not
• Required to submit to some repositories

Classroom Review

• Improve teaching and learning with the resource
• Prioritize student voices
• Can also be a valuable way to track impact beyond “traditional” measures
• Other names: beta-testing

Example: 2SLGBTQ+ Healthcare

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Accessibility Review

• Effective to ensure an accessible resource
• Involves a close review of the text in all its file types
• Allows for accountability on accessibility standards
• Find an expert, if you can

Examples: Thermodynamics

Empowering Bystanders

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Focus your review

1. Outline expectations and goals, with the following factors in mind:
1. Time available
2. Areas where feedback is critical
2. Decide on the:
• Tools used
• Timeline to begin and complete review
• Who - will reviewers need additional expertise?
3. Create a:
• Review guide
• Tracking sheet

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Review guide

As a team:

• Select primer questions (3-5) to focus your review. Eg. on:
• DEI
• Interactive elements
• New additions
• Highlight in the guide and rubric:
• questions
• reviewer etiquette
• Example:
• Open Pedagogy Approaches Review Guide
• Include the deadline and time frame decided earlier

Reviewer created by Llisole from the Noun Project. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.

Common Challenges

For subject-matter experts

• The goal of the review is to improve the OER for students but…
• …providing useful feedback can be tough
• Courage, vulnerability, and honesty needed
• Trepidation around evaluating or having your work evaluated
• Remember the why
• Tap into your project manager for support

Project Managers:

keep in mind

• Follow-up needed to keep the review on track
• Conduct a series of check-ins
• Offer logistics support
• Collect reviews and offer thanks
• Support authors
• Be ready to listen and lend a shoulder
• Keep the project moving
• Complete a quick scan to help authors prioritize revisions

Managing Revisions

• Don’t feel pressured to complete all the revisions in a month or so
• Let your SLOs guide this decision making
• Remember, the initial peer review is just one opportunity for you to get feedback on your OER
• As you use the resource, you will have more opportunities to hear from students and teachers
• OER are easy to update!

This isn’t your “final” OER!

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Highlight this process

After the review

• Create a review statement and accessibility statement:
• Make the process visible
• Demonstrates care and attention
• Resource is living and can be improved
• Inform external reviewers about release and updates
• In future:
• Share the adoption form with reviewers
• Token of thanks (print copy, remuneration, etc.)

Examples:

Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology

• Review Statement
• Praise for the Book
• Accessibility Assessment

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Discussion

You’ll have 10 minutes to freely write answers to ANY of the questions below. Please post your answers in your Cohort’s Discussion Forum. Be sure to look at your cohort’s responses!

We’ll discuss what’s shared to wrap!

Prompts:

1. How will your team attempt to manage the effects of bias in the review process?
2. How will your team invite and value a broad range of reviewer perspectives?
3. What non-traditional subject matter experts you’d like to work with? (students, community members, etc.)
4. What project specific questions you would like to ask during the review process?

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Next week: Formatting and Release Preparation