Collaborative development of teaching materials and assessments I have been teaching for 10 years. During this time I have also been developing and contributing to open source software. The collaborative nature of open source projects and scientific research has contrasted strongly with my experience of teaching. People publish their research results in journals for peer review and they post their source on GitHub and other online repositories for review and collaboration, but there seems to be a dearth of collaboration on the development of good teaching materials and assessment. Am I overlooking a community somewhere where there is good peer review of teaching materials with a focus on current pedagogy?

I would like to be able to upload the pictures, notes and so on that I have developed to explain a particular concept and have other people critique it and make it better. Further, I would like to be able to contribute a question which assesses a particular skill and have it reviewed by peers and improved. This way we could build a repository of high quality materials and spread the load of development of new questions.

My specific field is chemical engineering process dynamics and control, but I would be interested in knowing if there is such a community somewhere in any tertiary education field.
It's a wonderful idea.

In the spirit of start somewhere, how about:


Publish these teaching materials (pictures, notes and so on that you have developed to explain a particular concept) on a website of your own, and open it up to moderated comments.  Invite others to contribute guest posts.  You might want to include something like this: "You are free to use these materials in your own teaching, as long as you acknowledge the source."
Borrow liberally from this and create one or more Wikipedia articles.
Consider asking your university to videotape your lectures.
Write up a more scholarly version for publication in a journal.