Lisa, Nick, Kim, Dave C and I are working on promoting the adoption, adaption and creation of open textbooks at UC.
As part of this work, we have reworked the Open Educational Resources guide, linked from the Teaching Support page. The guide now also includes information about:
- how UC Library can support academics with adapting and creating open textbooks
- good repositories for sourcing open textbooks
- open textbooks already in use at UC
You can check it out here: https://canterbury.libguides.com/opentextbooks
Adapt – that’s such an interesting option.
I listened to a podcast (Crime Analyst) just the other day where the host spoke to Dr Jessica Tayler, who mentioned being offered a publishing deal by a major journal but instead self-published her research so the subjects of her work – women who’ve experienced trauma – could actually access the content. Thought-provoking stuff.
This is great, thanks to all for your work on this. Good to see the examples of open textbooks in use at UC. Are we able to track new examples over time in some way?
I can’t think of an easy way to do this – a lot of this data came from the Course Information System which I wouldn’t recommend as a reliable (or easily processed) data source! Subject librarians are actively promoting open textbooks and we record adoptions as we hear of them here: K:\Info-Resources\OER-UC\OpenTexts-InUseAtUC-2020.docx , and will keep adding them to this page.