Project Summary: Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students

@gabriel.higginbotham Whoops. It’s here. https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/chapter/interview-with-gabriel-higginbotham-open-oregon-state/ Adding the bio now.

@lizmays Looks great!

Can I add a paragraph at the end thanking my boss?

“I would like to thank the Director of Open Oregon State, Dianna Fisher, for giving me the opportunity to learn and grow in this position. Her guidance, support, and willingness to allow me to take on new challenges provided a fulfilling environment for my first job.”

@gabriel.higginbotham Yes, I will add this, no problem!

@lizmays Thank you! Don’t hesitate to contact me for any future projects.

Definitely! I’ve put you on everyone’s radar:)

The first edition of the Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students is nearing completion, and I wanted to give all of you who participated and supported the project a sneak peek and an opportunity to provide feedback before it goes live.

The book is here: https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/ and is currently password protected. The password is MOTS.

Hypothes.is is enabled, so you can leave your comments while visiting the book. We would be grateful for any feedback you have, either in the Making Open Textbooks With Students group on Hypothes.is, which you can join here (https://hypothes.is/groups/L4EXi9Nm/making-ots-with-students), or however else you would like to provide it (email, forum, etc.).

We are hoping to take this first iteration live the week of Aug. 21, so we would be grateful for any feedback you have by Aug. 11.

Thanks in advance for any feedback you may have!

@lizmays Hi Liz, I’m writing an article for Inside Higher Ed that is due Monday Aug. 21, and I’m wondering if this book will be live w/o the password protection by then? I’d love to include it in there. The article is about student contributions to OER!

@clhendricksbc Thanks so much for letting us know! We really appreciate your pointing to the guide. I’ve just incorporated the feedback that was provided from everyone, and made it quietly live so that you can link to it. I do have one last change / addition coming from @trobbins1981 this weekend, so if you can buy us the weekend to make that addition before turning it in, we would greatly appreciate it! I will sound the all clear as soon as that’s incorporated. Thank you again for including this resource from Rebus!

@clhendricksbc Hi Christina, Also, just saw your post on Twitter. There are tons of great case studies of other open pedagogy open textbook projects in the case study section of the guide. Link is: https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/

@lizmays Thanks, Liz! I won’t submit the article until Monday, and even then it will need to probably be edited and revised, so there will be plenty of time I think. And I’ll take a look at the case studies section of the book!

@clhendricksbc Sounds great! Let me know if there is any other way I can be of help this weekend. In addition, this project might make a good one to highlight. Julie Ward’s Hispanic literature anthology critical edition assignment (which she did with her class) is now being expanded by other faculty in other classrooms. Info here: https://forum.rebus.community/topic/135/project-summary-antología-abierta-de-literatura-hispánica and here: https://about.rebus.community/2017/08/a-new-era-of-student-created-anthologies-antologia-abierta-de-literatura-hispanica/ A version of the assignment is also included in the Assignments portion of the Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students.

@clhendricksbc Just wanted to let you know that the major tweak we were working on is now implemented.

@clhendricksbc If you do get an ETA of when the piece might run, can you let me know? I’d like to keep an eye out to amplify!

To all who contributed to the Guide to Making Open Textbooks With Students, thank you again.

We’re thrilled to say that the first edition of the Guide is now officially live!

The book link is here: https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/

And we’ve put up a blog post about the guide here.

Please feel free to share the guide far and wide.

And of course, as with everything we do, this is an iterative work. Please let us know if you have ideas we might incorporate into the next edition!

Hi everyone! We’re pleased to announce that Rebus Projects is now live! This is our new platform that guides open textbook projects through the publishing workflow and makes it easy to find, recruit, and organize collaborators. The main listing for this project is now found on the new site.

To stay involved & updated on this project’s progress, head to Rebus Projects, log in with the same details you use on the Rebus Forum. Then, find this project in the listing, and click on “Join the Project” in the new platform! We look forward to seeing you there!