# Office Hours: Sprinting to Publication - OER Production via Textbook Sprints

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**Topic:** Sprinting to Publication: OER Production via Textbook Sprints  
**When:** 16 July 2020  
**Guests:**  **Barbara Rühling** (CEO, Book Sprints Limited), **Billy Meinke-Lau** (Open Educational Resources Technologist, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa), and **Anita R. Walz** (Associate Professor; Assistant Director for Open Education and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Virginia Tech)

Time is often a big constraint for both newcomers and experienced professionals looking to create OER. The textbook sprint approach lets you work on OER projects in a shorter timeline, and can be a great strategy for OER development. In this session, we’ll discuss how you can harness the power of collaboration to go from idea to publication in just a few days. We’ll hear from guests who have successfully run textbook sprints for OERs in different disciplines. Guests will share their tips for planning and managing a sprint. They will also discuss advantages to the sprint approach beyond increasing OER availability, including experimenting with new pedagogical methods, sharing publishing expertise, creating cross-campus OER networks, and more.

This session is complete. Thank you to our speakers and attendees for joining! Watch the video recording below or read the [audio & chat transcripts](https://about.rebus.community/2020/07/24/july-office-hours-sprinting-to-publication/).

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/rebus_new/original/1X/173c54b62846d68d7cb29c6a7688cf028b39dd47.jpeg "Office Hours: Sprinting to Publication - OER Production via Textbook Sprints") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4UiqyzKDH0)