Who Should Participate?

• Interested in using an Open Textbook (aka OER) but don’t know where to start?  
• Concerned about the impact rising textbook costs have on your students?  
• Concerned about how remote instruction is impacting timely access to course materials on your students? 
• Want a paid opportunity to review an Open Textbook with potential for your courses?

View the Video

Open Textbooks are those “that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed.”  The current pandemic’s effect on higher education makes now an especially critical time to consider the impact of the cost of textbooks on our students.  The workshop video includes:

• Brief overview of open educational resources, which will be provided digitally prior to the workshop to those who have registered
• Panel discussion with faculty that have adopted Open Textbooks in their classrooms.
• Librarians by your side to answer your questions
• Post-workshop, participants will have the opportunity to write a short review of an open textbook from the OTN Library
  • (Sample OTN psychology textbook and its reviews are here, for your reference: https://tinyurl.com/openpsychtextbook)
• Each reviewer will receive a $200 stipend upon completion of the review, funded by Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC)
• Reviews will be published on the Open Textbook Library website, where it can help other faculty who are adopting open textbooks across the globe.

 

By completing this form, I acknowledge that I have viewed to completion the recording provided and I am ready to participate in creating a textbook review.