This announcement went out to UH Manoa faculty yesterday morning. Please consider reviewing an OpenStax College textbook if you are a UH Manoa faculty member.
College invites faculty to provide reviews of the OpenStax College textbooks. OpenStax College, an initiative of Rice University, has supported the development and delivery of 15 textbooks written by faculty for introductory university courses and more are on their way. This is a very exciting development in Open Educational Resources that Outreach College wants to support. Our goal is to have substantive reviews for each of the textbooks OpenStax College has.
Outreach College will provide a $200 gift certificate to the UH Bookstores for each accepted review. To participate in the review process you must be a full-time active faculty member of UH Manoa, associated with a department for which the textbook you are reviewing might be used in courses offered by the department.
If you are interested in reviewing an OpenStax College textbook for Outreach College, please apply here: http://wp.me/P5VkWx-k2. When you are
invited to review the textbook of your choice we would like to receive the review within a month. We will be accepting applications through December
31, 2015.
The process for reviewing the textbooks in the repository is provided here: http://go.hawaii.edu/XN. We ask that you enter your review using
the online rubric in the repository.
The review will have a CC By license, meaning that anyone may use your review as long as they provide attribution to your work. Your review will
posted on the oer.hawaii.edu site, shared with relevant curriculum committees and instructional faculty, and will be shared with other institutions and organizations working on OER.
