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From http://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/reviewers-needed/

Almost a year ago, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning launched the Language OER Network (http://community.coerll.utexas.edu/), a website that features teachers, students, and staff who are using, creating, and promoting OER. Featured educators receive a badge and are listed on the website under different categories of work: OER Teacher, OER Creator, OER Reviewer, and OER Ambassador. The lists of featured people are growing in every category except one: OER Reviewer.

Reviews help add legitimacy to materials posted online, where anyone with an Internet connection can publish something. A review can:

Help teachers sift through a mountain of content to find what is high quality
Provide useful feedback to content authors
Offer a forum for teachers to express gratitude to their colleagues for sharing their work
Ideally, encourage teachers to talk to each other about ideas for teaching and to participate in a community.

COERLL will award you a digital badge for reviewing materials in public fora, such as MERLOT (https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm), OER Commons, or blogs. More details are available here: http://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/reviewers-needed/