Outline for Adopting Open Textbooks

Expectations / Should I take this course?
This workshop requires between 2 to 4 hours per week in class-related work. A key component of finishing each module is that you share your findings: frustrations and moments of elation with your peers in the class. This is a peer to peer learning experience and you will learn as much from each other as from the workshop material and thus your participation in the weekly discussions in the forum will be essential. There will also be 2-3 live webinars where we will share what we are learning and new material will be introduced.

General Strategy of Course
STEP1: DISCOVER & SELECT



Discover high-quality, accessible, and culturally-relevant open educational resources using OER repositories and publisher websites where you can browse and search for learning materials. Many of these repositories include peer reviews and include authoring platforms where you can remix materials and post new ones.

STEP 2: ADOPT & USE

After locating one or more educational resources that meet your learning outcomes, you now will want to decide when and how to announce this to stakeholders in your learning community including students if you are an educator.

If you will be adding new materials to supplement those you have found, you will want to explore how to combine them for delivery depending on how you teach and what technologies are available to you. Creative Commons licensing options will be explored and how to license new materials and remix existing ones will be discussed.

STEP 3: SHARE & ADVOCATE

After adopting an open textbook, learn how to share your newfound knowledge with decision-makers in your learning community and collaborate with others to find new solutions for delivery of open education materials to benefit students and educators. For example, some campus bookstores may be able to provide a printing option for students who want a hardcopy of open textbooks. This can be much more efficient than having students print out materials in the library or at home.

What are the modules?
Introductions

Finding Open Textbooks

Finding More Open Textbooks

Open Licensing

Using Open Textbooks