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Hello: Im Brian Shelton, Assistant Professor of Communication Arts


 * Understand key concepts and terminology for open educational practices Completed
 * Use the course discussion forum Completed
 * Create a Wikiversity user page Completed
 * Edit the course wiki Completed

Section 2
 * Read discuss the 5 R's . Completed
 * Describe Open Licensing Completed
 * Locate and Review an OER . Completed
 * Edit Be Bold Completed
 * Reflect Completed

Review of OER Text:

Section 3 Completed all work assignments for Week 3

Section 4 Completed all for week 4

Section 5 Multimedia

Example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bC4zBopxqQ&feature=youtu.be

Complete all Week 5 assignments. Section 6 Complete all Section 6 Assignments

Section 7 Completed All Section 7 Assignments

= Text: Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative. =

= Open Textbooks Review Criteria: = Comprehensiveness

The text covers all areas and ideas of the subject appropriately and provides an effective index and/or glossary.

This book does cover all of the subjects and is quite comprehensive.

Content Accuracy

Content is accurate, error-free and unbiased.

The vast majority of the content seems accurate but at times dated.

Relevance Longevity

Content is up-to-date, but not in a way that will quickly make the text obsolete within a short period of time. The text is written and/or arranged in such a way that necessary updates will be relatively easy and straightforward to implement.

''I’m concerned about some of the material in this book being dated very quickly. The Media industry changes fast, but the history does not. I’m currently using this book and supplementing with newer material where required.''

Clarity

The text is written in lucid, accessible prose, and provides adequate context for any jargon/technical terminology used.

Yes, this text is on par with any other college textbook in that regard.

Consistency

The text is internally consistent in terms of terminology and framework.

Yes.

Modularity

The text is easily and readily divisible into smaller reading sections that can be assigned at different points within the course (i.e., enormous blocks of text without subheadings should be avoided). The text should not be overly self-referential, and should be easily reorganized and realigned with various subunits of a course without presenting much disruption to the reader.

Yes, each chapter is split into subsections which is convenient but can also be a little annoying to work with when you are assigned the entire chapter.

Organization Structure Flow

The topics in the text are presented in a logical, clear fashion.

Yes.

Interface

The text is free of significant interface issues, including navigation problems, distortion of images/charts, and any other display features that may distract or confuse the reader.

Yes

Grammatical Errors

The text contains no grammatical errors.

Can’t say for sure but nothing glaring at this point.

Cultural Relevance

The text is not culturally insensitive or offensive in any way. It should make use of examples that are inclusive of a variety of races, ethnicities, and backgrounds.

This book is culturally relative.

This rubric was developed by BCcampus. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.