Session 9 (LOUIS D). Review and Feedback

Textbook Success Program October 2022 D Cohort
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Hello, @oct22-d-cohort! We’re back for a month of weekly meetings that will touch base on some aspects of OER development that tend to pop up in the later stages of your publication. Today we’ll discuss review and feedback strategies. Here are the Week 9 slides and handout . At the beginning of the session I’ll summarize some trends I noticed from the June one-on-ones. We can also briefly troubleshoot as needed.

See you in a bit:)

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It was great seeing those who could attend today’s session! Here are some links we looked at together:

Recap
The ultimate purpose of review is to ensure that your OER is well-structured and ready to be used in the classroom. Review can help you get critical input and suggestions for change that will make your OER even stronger. By sharing your book with subject experts, you can ensure that the content is appropriate, accurate, and adequately covers the material. At heart, review is about bringing more hands on deck to invest and help your resource.

Today’s session covered the different kinds of review, workflows for these processes, and important considerations for this stage of your projects. We looked at a few central documents and questions that may support you all, and also do a bit of forward thinking about how to share the results of this process!

  1. Peer Review: ‘Peers’ can offer constructive feedback and solutions to improve the quality of educational content. We encourage you to reflect, recognize, and minimize biases in peer review. For instance, consider what types of feedback you need and who can speak to the quality of your content besides another instructor — would an industry expert be able to input? Think back to your SLOs — whose subject matter perspectives are needed to help determine whether the OER is built to help students achieve these outcomes?
  2. Accessibility Review: The accessibility review involves a thorough run through the different output formats of your OER looking specifically at the web accessibility in each format. A specific set of accessibility criteria can guide the people in your team who are tasked with this form of review to ensure that your resource meets the desired accessibility standards. The goal is to make as accessible an OER as you can, knowing that there is always opportunity for improvement down the road.
  3. Classroom Review: This form of review is particularly powerful because it invites feedback from the students which ultimately will help your team to determine necessary improvements for future iterations. Feedback can be gathered both from the instructor using the book to teach as well as the students using the book to learn. Try to identify some academic and non-academic measures as you gather comments from the classroom.

We provided a Review Guide Template that will help you establish review workflows and identify expectations and central guiding questions to better structure your review process and support reviewers. There can be many different lenses/criteria to keep in mind when reviewing the resource, and we suggested coming up with 3-5 central questions to keep things manageable. This is laid out in more detail in the handout for session 9.

Suggested Next Steps
Use the Review Guide Template to firm up the structure around your group’s peer feedback. I don’t consider this a “homework” task because you’re busy working on LOUIS’s summer milestones. However, using something like the Review Guide Template will streamline feedback within your LOUIS group.