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Remember the curriculum currently has three units that cover the topics: What is an Open Textbook?; Planning and Building a Publishing Program; and Project Management.

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Open Education Network Publishing Cooperative

Course Modules

This course content is offered under a CC Attribution license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.

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Open Education Network Publishing Cooperative

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Open Education Network Publishing Cooperative This course content is offered under a CC Attribution license. Content in this course can be considered under this license unless otherwise noted.

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Currently Pub101 consists of an openly licensed curriculum that anyone can access and a facilitated cohort professional development experience in the Spring.

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"I would recommend piloting these materials in your class and making revisions based on the experience working with them before we publish them officially and share them out."

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Be patient with yourself. Trust yourself, you are the subject matter expert.

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Be patient with yourself. Trust yourself, you are the subject matter expert.

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Start with audience and objectives: Who are you creating this for and what do you want it to accomplish?

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It will take more time than you think

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Be realistic about goals, timelines, budgets

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Break the work up into chunks to make the work seem more manageable

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What CC license works best for them and their work

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Be honest about your timeframe for writing.

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Be honest about your timeframe for writing.

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To begin tracking their 3rd party inserts right away! Don't wait until you're done to source and cite.

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We can publish a "good enough for now" version to get this out and shared widely, and update it later! It doesn't need to be perfect from the start.

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You will underestimate the amount of time it takes.

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Review the CC license options and consider what level of permissions you want to allow for users (i.e., ensuring they understand what open/CC-licensed really means)

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Keep good notes on resources and digital objects

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They get overwhelmed. I wish they would let me help scope more at the beginning, but frequently they have to hit a wall before they are open to help with scope. Which is fine, just hate for them to be frustrated.

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They get overwhelmed. I wish they would let me help scope more at the beginning, but frequently they have to hit a wall before they are open to help with scope. Which is fine, just hate for them to be frustrated.

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Not knowing how they can use other resources, and questions about fair use

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Thinking they have to do every single thing from scratch

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Thinking they have to do every single thing from scratch

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It doesn't have to be perfect. Your field changes and grows, let this do that as well 

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It doesn't have to be perfect. Your field changes and grows, let this do that as well 

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Reach out to me with questions!

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Images. Faculty love to steal copyrighted images. Finding alternatives is always a big, time consuming step in textbook authoring. 

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Images. Faculty love to steal copyrighted images. Finding alternatives is always a big, time consuming step in textbook authoring. 

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The author's conception of copyright is problematic.

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Despite covering that "this is the formatting we require," we still get drafts submitted where "tab" is used to format text into columns...

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Find a work that inspires you and that you'd like this creation to emulate.

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They often ave a lot of content they are already using but it’s not necessarily useable in an oer

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They often ave a lot of content they are already using but it’s not necessarily useable in an oer

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External pressures (increased course loads, team members leaving jobs)

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External pressures (increased course loads, team members leaving jobs)

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What role could/should AI play, if any?

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They are subject experts not editors.

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They don't have the time to finish the work

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Creating a LEARNING resource, if that is its purpose (instructional design)

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What is a Textbook?

What Makes an Open Textbook Unique?

Project Management For You!

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Possibly more emphasis on the foundations of openness

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Definitely keep the textbook structure section--and maybe make it more interactive

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Appendix 2: List of Pedagogical Elements – Fanshawe OER Development Guide

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Where to find help, for instance, how to 'UDL' could also be 'where to find an instructional designer'

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Where to find help, for instance, how to 'UDL' could also be 'where to find an instructional designer'

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Information on CC licenses, using 3rd party materials, Best Practices for Fair Use in OER

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Address how the concepts covered in the curriculum apply to non-textbook material? Thinking about how many of our faculty are not strictly making "textbooks"...

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Consider having a hosted session on using the Open Textbook Planner (KL)

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Demonstrate some of the things you want authors to do - like building in interactivity or other pedagogical elements

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Create a publishing imprint for your department 

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Create a publishing imprint for your department 

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Also this: (And accessibility in general)

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Also this: (And accessibility in general)

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The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)

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Praise for The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)

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Key words to find the scholarly lit, what conferences

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Key words to find the scholarly lit, what conferences

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What help you might be able to get from your institution (e.g. brief OER program primer)

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How to bring in collaborators, have sprints, etc

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How to bring in collaborators, have sprints, etc

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Include it in our OER Canvas Course

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Finding the time for write, advocating for yourself, Tenure & promotion, and other concerns which will be unique and very present for authors

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Writing for the undergraduate/graduate audience

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Is there a way to intentionally inspire faculty authors, so they carry excitement through this curriculum

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Will there be a 'credential'? Maybe have a presentation/article authorship opportunity available as a deliverable. 

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Will there be a 'credential'? Maybe have a presentation/article authorship opportunity available as a deliverable. 

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Connecting co-authors through the program when interests align?

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Connecting co-authors through the program when interests align?

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Approaches to gaining feedback, peer review

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Controlled language and metadata matter, find someone who does that 

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Controlled language and metadata matter, find someone who does that 

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It will take more time than you think it will

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Writing an open textbook takes time and it is hard work, but we also need to tell them it is worth it. Lots of faculty may get turned off by the challenge.

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examples of how they might be used appropriately - to do heavy lifting for creating alt text for complex digital objects

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What work they need to do and what supports are available to them

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There’s so much out there - take the time to look and see what has already been done, what you can use, etc

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There’s so much out there - take the time to look and see what has already been done, what you can use, etc

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Know what services are already provided so that they're not doing more work than they need to

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Know what services are already provided so that they're not doing more work than they need to

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Don't worry about whether not it is good, meet the needs you have identified for your context. 

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Don't worry about whether not it is good, meet the needs you have identified for your context. 

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This is hard work but not impossible and it will benefit you in the long run

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Open = freedom, it shouldn't be seen as a "requirement" or an imposition

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Open = freedom, it shouldn't be seen as a "requirement" or an imposition

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Adaptation is like a home renovation, sometimes you just need a coat of paint, sometimes you need to gut the place; it's up to your preference and needs

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Adaptation is like a home renovation, sometimes you just need a coat of paint, sometimes you need to gut the place; it's up to your preference and needs

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You don't have to recreate the print book. Take advantage of the digital environment!

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If creating a learning resource: Think about your students and how to make this work speak to them (and maybe include their voices)

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grant programs are developing guidelines about whether or not they are okay with content generated through different AI tools

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Effective, ethical use of AI

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Creating the open texts with students

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Adopt it into a Faculty Learning Community (if we can get one)

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Adopt it into a Faculty Learning Community (if we can get one)

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I'd like to copy a Canvas course and customize it for our context

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I've shared the "Developing Textbook Structure" section with a faculty member who needed that guidance

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Yes! Pondering. This sounds silly, but maybe swag? Socks?

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Yes! Pondering. This sounds silly, but maybe swag? Socks?

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A Certificate of completion or other "bonus"

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A Certificate of completion or other "bonus"

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Share as an available resource with institutional partners getting started with this work

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For some faculty, the right timeline (I do not know what that would be)

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For some faculty, the right timeline (I do not know what that would be)

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Email/other template language, maybe by subject area?

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Template

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Having a focus for the program (STEM, Business, etc) would make it easier to promote (for the year, not for all time)

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Having a focus for the program (STEM, Business, etc) would make it easier to promote (for the year, not for all time)

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Testimonials - a few quotes from people who did the program and found it valuable

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Partner with undergraduate, couch as undergraduate mentorship/leadership

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Partner with undergraduate, couch as undergraduate mentorship/leadership

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A mentorship/partner program to support authors through peers

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A mentorship/partner program to support authors through peers

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Tips for how they used their funding (if they had funding)

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We have done some presentations in the past where faculty briefly share what they did/how they did it (lots of variation) which helped others generate ideas

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They say 'you won't believe what we could do' and 'our students loved it so much' 'our program has grown' '(person) was so great to work with'

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They say 'you won't believe what we could do' and 'our students loved it so much' 'our program has grown' '(person) was so great to work with'

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Peer mentoring, with opportunities to start doing (or at least organizing) the work and getting feedback from peers as they work through the curriculum

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In informal settings, faculty tend to share the benefits and positive impacts they see for their students, and/or how it helped them innovate their teaching practice

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time considerations, planning, workflows, revisions, how to make OER with open pedagogy