New Project Brings Peer Review to Web Materials for Teaching

If your peers reviewed your course Web site, how would it rate on a scale of 1 to 5?

You might soon find out, in a new guide to online teaching materials that is systematically rating academic sites on the World Wide Web, and allowing users to add their own comments. The guide, called Merlot (http://www.merlot.org), already lists nearly 3,000 items, although the professors involved in the project are only now beginning to evaluate and rate the sites.

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