TY - JOUR
T1 - Peer review anew
T2 - Three principles and a case study in postpublication quality assurance
AU - Kelty, Christopher M.
AU - Burrus, C. Sidney
AU - Baraniuk, Richard G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 5, 2008; revised February 28, 2008. This work was supported by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the National Science Foundation under Grant EEC-0538934, and William Marsh Rice University. C. M. Kelty is with the Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77001 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). C. S. Burrus and R. G. Baraniuk are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005 USA (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]).
Funding Information:
Dr. Baraniuk has received national Young Investigator awards from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research; the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University; the Electrical and Computer Engineering Young Alumni Achievement Award from the University of Illinois; the SPIE Wavelet Pioneer Award, and the C. Holmes MacDonald National Outstanding Teaching Award from Eta Kappa Nu. He received the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice University three times. He was selected as one of Edutopia Magazine’s Daring Dozen Education Innovators in 2007. Connexions received the Laureate Award from the Tech Museum of Innovation in 2006. His work with K. Kelly on the Rice single-pixel compressive camera was selected by MIT Technology Review Magazine as a TR10 Top 10 Emerging Technology. He recently joined the ad hoc Lensing Oversight Committee for the IEEE Signal Processing Society/Connexions pilot project (www.ieeecnx.org).
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - Over the last 15 years, the Internet has enabled new modes of authorship, new forms of open licensing and distribution, and new forms of collaboration and peer production to flourish. But in turn, new anxieties have arisen, especially concerning quality assurance, peer review, reuse, and modification. New innovations are appearing in peer review, endorsement, the measurement of trust, and the understanding of reputation, but without any systematic analysis of the general principles of quality assurance and peer review in this new era. In this paper, we propose a general set of principles for understanding what peer review was in the past and how it should be applied today to different kinds of content and in new platforms for managing quality. The principles stress an analysis not only on the content in materials but also on their context of use. Our focus is on open educational resources, and we present a case study of the open education project Connexions' lens system for quality assurance and review. However, the principles can be applied across multiple levels of knowledge production, including scholarship in engineering and science and reference materials in addition to educational publishing.
AB - Over the last 15 years, the Internet has enabled new modes of authorship, new forms of open licensing and distribution, and new forms of collaboration and peer production to flourish. But in turn, new anxieties have arisen, especially concerning quality assurance, peer review, reuse, and modification. New innovations are appearing in peer review, endorsement, the measurement of trust, and the understanding of reputation, but without any systematic analysis of the general principles of quality assurance and peer review in this new era. In this paper, we propose a general set of principles for understanding what peer review was in the past and how it should be applied today to different kinds of content and in new platforms for managing quality. The principles stress an analysis not only on the content in materials but also on their context of use. Our focus is on open educational resources, and we present a case study of the open education project Connexions' lens system for quality assurance and review. However, the principles can be applied across multiple levels of knowledge production, including scholarship in engineering and science and reference materials in addition to educational publishing.
KW - Connexions
KW - Lens
KW - Open access
KW - Open educational resource (OER)
KW - Peer review
KW - Quality assurance
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U2 - 10.1109/JPROC.2008.921613
DO - 10.1109/JPROC.2008.921613
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:50849104726
SN - 0018-9219
VL - 96
SP - 1000
EP - 1011
JO - Proceedings of the IEEE
JF - Proceedings of the IEEE
IS - 6
M1 - 4527088
ER -