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CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS


The AtlanticOER Peer Review System

The AtlanticOER Peer Review system is a tool for educators from publicly funded post-secondary institutions in the Atlantic Region who create OER to have their resources reviewed by experts in their field.

Reviewers are provided with an AtlanticOER Open Textbooks Peer Review Rubricopens WORD file to facilitate their reviews. Criteria include:

  • Comprehensiveness 
  • Content Accuracy
  • Relevance/Longevity
  • Clarity; Consistency
  • Modularity
  • Organization/Structure/Flow
  • Interface
  • Grammatical/Spelling Errors
  • Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Overall Recommendation


    • Who can be a Peer Reviewer?

    Any individual employed by a post-secondary institution who has recent teaching experience at the post-secondary level in the subject area for a specific OER is eligible to apply to be a peer reviewer.

    Apply to be a Peer Reviewer

    Educators interested in reviewing open textbooks can submit an application using the above form. In order to encourage a diversity of voices, reviews are currently limited to 2 per person. Books with two or fewer reviews will be given priority. Once you have been accepted to be a reviewer, you will review the OER using the Rubric linked above and you will submit the review to oer@caul-cbua.cacreate new email . Reviews will be posted once it is determined that they are complete. The following is expected and required of reviewers:


    • The review will be submitted using the rubric
    • The review will be submitted within three months
    • The review will be and complete and comprehensive
    • The review will be published using the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license
    • Reviewers are encouraged to provide helpful and constructive feedback whether the review is positive or negative