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.
Select from our list of open
textbooks.
Review Criteria
Provide feedback for a chapter of the open textbook in terms of
the following:
- Clarity and comprehensibility - content, including the
instructions and exercises
- Accuracy
- Readability - in terms of logic, sequencing, and flow
- Consistency of course materials - consistency in the content
language and use of key terms as is necessary to facilitate
understanding by novice users
- Appropriateness of content - appropriateness of the material
for community college level course
- Interface - technological issues such as broken links,
improperly displayed graphics, and ease of navigation
- Content usefulness - the ways in which the content could be
useful for teachers, students, and those with a general interest in
the subject area
- Content errors - the presence or absence of factual errors,
grammatical errors, and typographical errors
- Reading level - appropriate for community college level
students
- Cultural relevance - use of examples that are inclusive of
diverse races and ethnicities
- Modularity - the ability to adapt, rearrange, add, delete and
modify the content by sections
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