Our wide-reaching, fortnightly newsletter is an effective way to announce project news and needs, and to connect with contributors, reviewers, and adopters in the OER community.
If you are looking for collaborators, post about it here and we’ll include it in an upcoming newsletter and social media.
To post, click on ‘Reply’ and include the following:
the title and subject of your project
the role you are looking to fill
one sentence about what makes your project unique
a link to a relevant topic in the Contributor Marketplace where interested applicants can indicate their interest
Health, Safety and Nutrition: ECE Textbook
Role: Section Editor
Little to no Early Childhood Education OER exists despite a demonstrated need. This will be the first of 8 books created to fill this need. More Information on the Contributor Marketplaace
Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series
Roles sought:
Editor for the Social and Political Philosophy book
Authors for chapters in several books in the series
Volunteers to input content into Pressbooks for publishing
This is a series of 9 books on topics often covered in Introduction to Philosophy courses, including Ethics, Metaphysics, Logic and Aesthetics. Each book has an editor and between 5-10 separate authors from various parts of the world.
Roles: Two peer reviewers for Introduction to Philosophy of Religion book
This book is part of a series of 9 books on topics often covered in Introduction to Philosophy courses, including Ethics, Metaphysics, Logic and Aesthetics. Each book has an editor and between 5-10 separate authors from various parts of the world.
Title of project:Soil and Water Conservation: An Annotated Bibliography Roles I’m looking to fill:
Authors of annotations
People to identify online resources for some sections of the textbooks
People to identify photos that are openly licensed or in the public domain that can be added to the textbook
What makes this project unique? The project uses an annotated bibliography format to allow the use of freely-available, but not openly shared materials online, such as copyrighted university extension bulletins. It is also designed to help train students to seek out credible sources, as opposed to relying solely on a textbook or trusting the first link they find online. Contributor Marketplace:Call for Participation - Soil and Water Conservation
Great to see your first CFP! And you got it in before I send out the newsletter today. Expect to see it this afternoon in both the newsletter and the Rebus Community Twitter.
Let me know if you have any questions about how we amplify calls for participation.
Thanks! I think the CFP is fine as is. We may already have one peer reviewer (@beau.branson is following up to confirm) but it doesn’t hurt to keep the word “two” in there for now, until we hear otherwise.
the title and subject of your project: It’s All Greek to Me! Using Authentic Readings to Improve Knowledge of the English Language and Western Culture–advanced ESL, pre-University ESL, covering all 4 aspects if needed (reading, writing, listening, speaking), using Greek mythology and relevant articles.
the role you are looking to fill: Proofreaders for the stories, examining for story inconsistencies or any areas where stories could be better developed for reading ease by deleting confusing, unnecessary parts. Checking questions to make sure they are worded properly. Knowledge of CEFR levels, academic word lists, and corpi (corpuses???) would be great.
one sentence about what makes your project unique: This textbook combines literature and academic articles, using stories from Greek myths to explain vocabulary and idioms used in English that come from the stories.
I’m putting together the Rebus Community Newsletter to go out Thursday. If anyone would like me to re-share a CFP or share a new CFP let me know by Thursday at noon EST.
Are there still newsletters going out right now? Here’s a new call for the Intro to Philosophy project!
Introduction to Philosophy Open Textbook Series: This is a series of nine open textbooks on various philosophical topics that can be used for Introduction to Philosophy courses.
We are looking for chapter authors for a few books in the series (Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Science), peer reviewers for Aesthetics, copy editors for books that are nearing publication, and people to input the chapters from Google Docs into Pressbooks.
