Peer Review of Digital Learning Materials: Critical Service for Digital Libraries

该项目正在开发用于数字学习材料质量控制的工具和流程，使用基于建立和维持个人和机构用户和贡献者、专业学科组织和教育材料出版商社区的模型。这项工作利用了多媒体学习和在线教学教育资源 (MERLOT) 计划的工作，该计划拥有越来越多的 2,000 多种数字学习材料。以加州州立大学系统、乔治亚大学系统、北卡罗来纳大学系统和俄克拉荷马大学系统为首的二十多家高等教育机构正在组建生物学、化学、物理和工程数学学科社区，以制定实施和维持数字学习材料同行评审机制的标准和流程。随着项目的发展，预计会形成更多的学科社区。讨论、辩论和交流通过 MERLOT 的网络工作网站进行，虚拟社区的成员可以在工作网站上进行协作。机构参与者通过津贴和/或重新分配时间和旅行分配来支持其教师的努力，以参加 MERLOT 赞助的研讨会和会议。

This project is developing tools and processes for the quality control of digital learning materials, using a model based on building and sustaining communities of individual and institutional users and contributors, professional discipline organizations, and publishers of education materials. The effort leverages the work of the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) Initiative which has a growing collection of over 2,000 digital learning materials. Over twenty higher education institutions - led by the California State University System, the University of Georgia System, the University of North Carolina System, and the University of Oklahoma System - are forming discipline communities in biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering mathematics to develop standards and processes for implementing and sustaining mechanisms for peer review of digital learning materials. Additional discipline communities are expected to form as the project evolves. Discussion, debate, and communication take place via MERLOT's web-based worksites where members of the virtual communities collaborate. Institutional participants are supporting their faculty's endeavors through stipends and/or reassigned time and travel allotments for attending the MERLOT sponsored workshops and conferences.