BLOG & EVENTS

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This May 11, 2022, session is hosted by  Heather Caprette of Cleveland State University. Heather is joined by guest speaker Carla Myers from Miami University Libraries who talks about memorandums of understanding as communication tools in OER publication management.

Dave Ernst is the Executive Director of the Open Education Network and Founder of the Open Textbook Library. For the library’s 10-year milestone, Dave reflects on challenges overcome and the goals ahead.

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This May 4, 2022, session is hosted by Amanda  Larson of Ohio State University. Amanda is joined by guest speaker Karen Bjork from Portland State University who explores the call for proposals as a means to inform and communicate your program design, and as a first opportunity to communicate programmatic capacity and author expectations.

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This April 27, 2022, session is hosted by hosted by Christina Trunnell from Montana State University. Christina is joined by guest speaker Amanda  Larson of Ohio State University who shares her insights on publishing program development approaches and much more.

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This April 20, 2022, session is hosted by Carla Myers of Miami University. Carla is joined by guest speaker Christina Trunnell of the Montana University System for a discussion of diversity, equity and inclusion in OER publishing.

Today we're going to discuss showing your work, tools for reporting impact. We are joined by Tara Lebar, who is Associate Director of Academic Affairs with the Kansas Board of Regents; Barb Thees, who is Community Manager with the Open Education Network; and Emilia Bell who is Coordinator of Evidence Based Practice with Library Services at the University of Southern Queensland.

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. This April 13, 2022, session is hosted by Amanda Hurford of the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). Amanda is joined by guest speaker Jacqueline Frank from Montana State University for a discussion of accessibility and inclusion in OER.

Alicia Conrardy is a digital repository specialist at Colorado State University Libraries (CSU) where she is responsible for coordinating technical, bibliographic, and metadata for CSU’s digital repository collections. Her cataloging expertise and guidance during the OTL’s early years profoundly impacted the library’s growth that we’re celebrating in 2022.

Pub101 is a free, informal, online orientation to open textbook publishing. In this 2022 initial session, OEN Publishing Director Karen Lauritsen provides foundation setting and facilitates discussion with guests Gabby Hernandez and Sunyeen Pai on how to get started with publishing. 

The Open Education Network (OEN) has launched its Manifold Pilot, welcoming more than a dozen institutions and organizations to experiment with Manifold, a web publishing platform, for a variety of open educational publishing practices.