Love in the Time of Peer Review
The Editorial Board,
Hybrid Pedagogy,
Nov 26, 2014
This is basically my view: "In her presentation about open peer review at the 2014 OpenEd conference, Eva Amsen challenged her audience by asking: 'Why are people so mean?' She argues that allowing the public to see the review process, and allowing readers to know their reviewers, demands that the reviewers be nicer and more human, a stark contrast from traditional academic peer review." Funny thing, when I suggested such a thing to a group recently, the response was, "people don't want to put their stuff out into the open before it has been vetted." The perception was that the public, as opposed to the peer review board, would be mean. Or, maybe, that the latter would at least be mean in private.
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