Professors at Grand Valley State University have started the Writing Spaces initiative. The project is a series of books containing peer-reviewed essays written by teachers and students using a Creative Commons license. Writing Spaces argues it is distinct from wiki projects because it uses a more formal peer-review process. From Professor Charlie Lowe, an editor at Writing Spaces:
We feel that this model has significant benefits over wiki-based collaborative textbook projects since it provides a clear peer review process and specific publication credit that tenure and promotion committees can understand. There are professors at many institutions, such as my own, where this type of publication can count towards tenure and promotion. Additionally, the individually-authored chapters will offer unique voices and perspectives that would be normed in a highly collaborative wiki project.
