Online Peer Solutions (OPS) Pty Ltd (trading as Peer Review Portal) is a third party organisation which specialises in providing the higher education (HE) sector with cost-effective, efficient, and sustainable cloud-based solutions and services to support and meet accreditation, professional accreditation, and other regulatory requirements. The Peer Review Portal supports the HE sector to meet TEQSA’s Higher Education Standards Framework (2021).

Australia’s quality and standards agency in HE, the Tertiary Education quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), refers to the Peer Review Portal as an online support mechanism which individuals, education providers, industry, networks and professional associations in meeting national and international standards in external peer review (TEQSA Guidance Note External Referencing, including benchmarking, 2019; TEQSA Guidance Note: ELICOS Direct Entry).  

The Peer Review Portal (PRP) is a cloud-based review management system and online community of practice for quality assurance and review with no infrastructure or redevelopment costs. The review management system can be linked to other institutional online systems and reporting.

There is an increasing onus on higher education institutions across the sector to demonstrate an evidence-based approach to self assurance. For example, Curtin University is using the Peer Review Portal to support their Curriculum Analysis, Review and Renewal Schedule (2018-2022). 

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Some background information: 

Booth, S. (2020). A higher education collaborative, streamlined approach to institutional self-assurance and accreditation 

Booth, S. (2018). Assessment in Practice (NILOA): The Peer Review Portal: Using an Online College of Peers Network and Collaborator Role for Reporting Professional Accreditation, Course Accreditation and Assessment Activity

Booth, S. (2017). TEQSA best-paper in quality: A cost effective solution for external referencing of accredited course of study

Booth, S., Beckett, B., Saunders, C., Freeman, M., Alexander, H., Oliver, R., Thompson, M., Fernandez, J. & Valore, R. (2015). Peer review of Assessment Networks: Sector-wide options for calibrating and assuring achievement standards within and across disciplines and other networks, Report prepared for the Office for Learning and Teaching, Australian Government, Canberra.

Freeman, M. & Ewan, C. (2014). Good Practice Report: Assuring Learning Outcomes Standards.  Report prepared for the Office for Learning and Teaching, Australian Government, Canberra.

Yorke, J., Bedford, S., Czech, P., Sefcik, L., & Smith, J. (2016). External Referencing of Standards (EROS) Project.