Office Hours: Facilitating Classroom Review of Open Textbooks
Channel: Rebus Community
Date: 2020-02-28

The special guests at this month's session of the Rebus Community and Open Textbook Network Office Hours were Ian McDermott (Coordinator of Library Instruction, Associate Professor, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY), Jared Robinson (Research Associate, McGill University; Former Primary Researcher, Open Education Group), Andre Mount (Associate Professor of Music Theory, Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam).

OER publishing involves a lot of moving parts, so it can sometimes be easy to forget the big picture: how will instructors and students experience this OER in classrooms? Will it help students learn what the author or faculty want them to know? One way to find out is to ask them directly. In this session, we talked about reviewing open textbooks in the classroom. How can an author or colleague facilitate review in a way that is productive, helpful, and safe for students? How might it be different from peer review? What are the best mechanisms for collecting and integrating feedback? How do faculty decide which suggestions should be implemented, and when?

The audio transcript of this session is available on the Rebus Community website: https://about.rebus.community/2020/02/28/february-office-hours-facilitating-classroom-review-of-open-textbooks/

Looking for resources to help OER creators have their work reviewed by teachers and students? Keep an eye on the Rebus Community platform: https://www.rebus.community/t/office-hours-facilitating-classroom-review-of-open-textbooks/2422