Peer-review will now be reviewed by bloggers

Since almost the earliest days of the Internet, education establishment voices have complained that open online education risked a pot full of faulty materials. They have routinely cautioned students against false online information and used this mistrust as a fundamental reason not to embrace the Internet in teaching and learning, or at least to do so skeptically.

Today a new project that launched online, BPR3 Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting, is a means for the pot to keep up with what is going on in the kettle, and to point it out when black smudge takes the shine off of the kettle. BPR2 identifies itself as: . . . the news blog for ResearchBlogging.org, which strives to identify serious academic blog posts about peer-reviewed research with an aggregation site where others can look to find the best academic blogging on the Net.
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