BCcampus is looking for instructors to review existing open textbooks in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection.

An honorarium of $250 will be paid to eligible and qualified individuals who complete, submit, and permit the open publication of their review for a textbook in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection. All reviews must be approved by BCcampus Open Education before they are posted and payment is made to the reviewer.

Answers provided in completed reviews must be accurate, comprehensive, constructive, and concise; this is required so that the review is useful to those evaluating the targeted open textbook. (See “Completed Review: Approval and Payment” below.)

Each approved and completed review will be published by the reviewed textbook in the B.C. Open Textbook Collection under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. The copyright for each review is owned by the reviewer.

Resources

• Application form, including a list of existing open textbooks eligible for review.
• B.C. Open Textbooks Review Rubric (CC BY).

Review and Selection Process

• Faculty who would like to review a textbook should be teaching in the subject area for the selected text.
• Reviewers should be teaching at a post-secondary institution in either British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, or the Yukon.
• Reviewers are willing to consider the adoption of the reviewed open textbook, providing its quality and contents are appropriate for their course.

Please note that in order to encourage a diversity of voices in the reviews, BCcampus limits the number of reviews per person to one.

Application Process

Faculty interested in reviewing one of the BCcampus Open Education, should submit an application. If you have any further questions, please email helpdesk@bccampus.ca.