Adopting Open Textbooks
Welcome to the Adopting Open Textbooks workshop
The How and Why of Open Textbooks
Can adopting open educational resources make education more accessible to learners and empower educators to share?
Summary
The course is a three-step process to adopting open textbooks for educators facilitated by the BCcampus. The three major steps are discovering open educational materials and selecting appropriate ones based on the various criteria; secondly following an adoption process where you work with other stakeholders including students to promote a best-use model, and finally the third step is sharing your knowledge of discovery and adoption of open educational materials with others in your discipline, campus, or learning community. The course can also be useful to self-learners who want to find high-quality open educational resources in their area of interest.
We will have weekly discussions on the course forum about important issues in the course. We will also have bi-weekly live video conferences to share new discoveries and answer questions. These conferences wil be archived for those who cannot attend live.
Watch this video to hear more about it.
Schedule/Syllabus
