We are pleased to announce that The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature has a new lead editor. Timothy Robbins, an assistant professor of English at Graceland University, has joined the project and will be leading the charge to expand the range of texts covered in the anthology. This second edition will continue the workKeep reading “Found: A Lead Editor for The Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature”
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Office Hours: Making Open Textbooks with Students
Office Hours: Making Open Textbooks with Students Jan. 31 2 p.m. EST Our next office hours will feature special guests Robin DeRosa, Steel Wagstaff, Amanda Coolidge, and others who work with students to create open textbooks and open content. The conversation will encompass pedagogy, faculty responsibilities, student rights and agreements when students work on open textbooksKeep reading “Office Hours: Making Open Textbooks with Students”
How Rebus Can Help if You’re Already Doing Open Textbooks
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about how the Rebus Community can help if you are already creating open textbooks. Those and related questions are answered in this (slightly edited) conversation between Hugh McGuire and Rebus Community member Billy Meinke of University of Hawaii, in the Rebus Community forum. BILLY: Is there any info aboutKeep reading “How Rebus Can Help if You’re Already Doing Open Textbooks”
The Rebus Approach to Accessibility & Inclusivity
In part one of our series on accessibility, we covered what accessibility is and why it’s important. Now, learn about what we’re doing to ensure accessibility for the open textbooks we support. How Do We Ensure Accessibility & Inclusivity of the Open Textbooks Created with Rebus Support? The Rebus Community is committed to ensuring thatKeep reading “The Rebus Approach to Accessibility & Inclusivity”
What is Accessibility?
At Rebus, we’re committed to ensuring that all Open Textbooks coming through the Rebus process are accessible. In fact, we are working on building accessibility right into the authoring process. What do we mean by accessibility? Accessibility is the term used for, roughly, “making it easy for people with disabilities (say people with visual impairments,Keep reading “What is Accessibility?”
Call for Contributors: A Guide to Authoring Open Textbooks
Are you an open textbook champion who wants to help others by sharing your experience producing open textbooks? Melissa Falldin of the University of Minnesota and Karen Lauritsen of the Open Textbook Network are producing a guide to authoring open textbooks and they’re looking for contributors. The guide will be for authors or project managers/librariansKeep reading “Call for Contributors: A Guide to Authoring Open Textbooks”
Call for Contributors: Foundations of Biology
Would you like to help create an Open textbook for biology survey courses at community colleges? “Foundations of Biology” is being led by a group of authors at Greenfield Community College who are looking to adapt two OpenStax textbooks (Biology and Concepts of Biology) to create a version suitable for the mixed groups that areKeep reading “Call for Contributors: Foundations of Biology”
Call for Contributors: History of Applied Science and Technology
Would you like to help create and publish an Open Textbook designed to meet the needs of History of Applied Science and Technology courses at colleges and universities around the world? “Into the Unknown: Technology, Science, and Their Impact on Society” is in development by lead editors and authors at the University of Maryland UniversityKeep reading “Call for Contributors: History of Applied Science and Technology”
Office Hours Recap & MOU Feedback
Last Wednesday, we met for our monthly Office Hours session to discuss MOUs between institutions and faculty undertaking open textbook projects, and to begin the process of creating a new template MOU that can be used by open textbook creators across the globe. Out of the discussion came several key areas that an MOU mustKeep reading “Office Hours Recap & MOU Feedback”
A Rebus Community Philosophy of Open Textbooks
I wrote the following as part of an answer to one of our Intro to Philosophy Open Textbook project team members, who wanted a clearer scope for that project (which by the way, is still looking for collaborators — can you help?). While everything we are doing at the Rebus Community is evolving as we get toKeep reading “A Rebus Community Philosophy of Open Textbooks”