Educational Technologies Peer Review Textbooks 
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 9, 2017
The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. Without a formal peer-review process, how is it possible to catch mistakes?
Edsurge
OCTOBER 22, 2021
A new startup wants to shake up the textbook market by making it easier for professors to adopt courseware created at colleges and universities rather than by commercial textbook publishers. based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset.
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Edsurge
MARCH 28, 2018
“Coming from educational publishing, there was a strict division between writing and editing and graphic-design work,” says Anagnoson. Today, Anagnoson’s online course is embedded into a Water Systems Technology zero-cost textbook degree program, or Z-degree. Now it’s my job.” But small kinks have cropped up.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 17, 2017
There’s even a new peer-reviewed academic journal about using Wikipedia in higher education. I hear more often these days about teaching with free online materials instead of traditional textbooks (known as OER). Absolutely. It's a continuing spectrum. I tend to focus on aspects of OER depending on the audience.
Edsurge
MARCH 12, 2021
In fact, most school-aged students rarely learn about anything other than the accepted understandings in science that appear in textbooks only after years of debate, advances and consensus. Science courses typically teach students about scientific discoveries long after they happened.
Edsurge
MAY 16, 2018
Open educational resources (OER) are gaining increasing popularity. And as an active member in what advocates define as the “open education movement,” I frequently hear about the growing dissatisfaction of textbook costs and pedagogical concerns among faculty about outdated course materials.
Edsurge
MARCH 13, 2019
Feedback dialogue sample from eighth grader Grace, Image credit: Christine Witcher In response, we created Floop , a tool that allows teachers to give digital annotated feedback, allows students to respond immediately to the feedback and facilitates a scaffolded and anonymous peer review session. Anonymous student.
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