The Open Education Network provides its members with education, support and resources to expand open textbook publishing in higher education. Our community also creates and shares resources that anyone can use to advance their OER publishing goals.
COMMUNITIES
Pub101
Pub101 is an informal orientation to open textbook publishing for OEN members who support faculty authors. It's an opportunity to learn recommended practices from colleagues who have worked on open textbook publishing projects.
Publishing Cooperative
Members who complete Pub101 are invited to join the Publishing Cooperative, a community that wants to continue to learn more about publishing open textbooks. Co-op members can also choose to publish with Scribe and access their editorial and design services.
Office Hours
Together with the Rebus Community we host Office Hours, a monthly virtual conversation where the open education community is welcome to discuss topics in open textbook writing and publishing. View previous sessions on YouTube.
PUB101 COMMITTEE
The Pub101 Committee was formed in 2021 to ensure a community-driven Pub101 experience.
Heather Caprette
Cleveland State University (2021-2024)
Heather is a Senior Media Developer/Instructional Designer in the Center for eLearning at Cleveland State University. She works with faculty to build high quality online courses and helps with Textbook Affordability Grant projects. She designs and teaches professional development courses on accessible online design, Pressbooks and open pedagogy. Heather holds a Master of Fine Arts in Design.
Angelique Carson
WRLC (2022-2024)
Angelique is the Shared Collections Librarian at the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) and currently serves as co-chair of the WRLC’s Textbook Affordability Working Group (TAWG). Angelique has held Librarian posts at Southern University of New Orleans, the Southern Food and Beverage Culinary Library and Archive, the Catholic University of America and Howard University.
Phoebe Daurio
Open Oregon Educational Resources (2022-2024)
Phoebe joined the Open Oregon Educational Resources team in October 2021 and has enjoyed learning about the open education landscape in Oregon and beyond. As Grant Project Manager, she coordinates author teams working on a federal funded OER project to develop openly-licensed, targeted pathway materials with an equity lens. Phoebe brings over a decade of instructional experience to her position and is excited to work with the OEN Pub101 Committee for the next two years!
Amanda Hurford
PALNI (2021-2023)
Amanda is the Scholarly Communications Director for the Private Academic Library Network of Indiana (PALNI). In this role, she develops and supports consortial scholarly communications initiatives. She directs the PALSave affordable learning program and PALNI Press publishing program. Amanda holds a Master of Library Science with a specialization in Library Technology Management.
Amanda Larson
Pub101 Co-Chair
The Ohio State University (2021-2024)
Amanda is the Affordable Learning Instructional Consultant at The Ohio State University where she creates professional development opportunities for staff, librarians, and instructors around open pedagogy and open educational practices. Previously, she was the Open Education Librarian for University Libraries at Penn State University where she coordinated affordable content initiatives across all Penn State campuses.
Carla Myers
Pub101 Co-Chair
Miami University (2021-2023)
Carla serves as the Coordinator of Scholarly Communications for the Miami University Libraries. Her professional presentations and publications focus on US copyright law and affordable learning initiatives. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Akron and a Masters in Library and Information Science from Kent State University.
Christina Trunnell
TRAILS (2021-2023)
Christina is the statewide OER Coordinator for TRAILS, the academic library consortium of Montana. She facilitates education, outreach, faculty grants, and state publishing to Montana’s public, tribal, and private institutions. Christina has 15 years of experience as an academic library director and writing faculty member as well as a background in diversity, equity, and inclusion work and community service programs.
PUBLISHING COOPERATIVE ADVISORY GROUP
Stefanie Buck
Advisory Group Co-Chair
Oregon State University (2023-2025)
Stefanie is the director of Open Educational Resources at Oregon State University. She received her MLS from the University of Hawai’i. She works closely with faculty who want to adapt, adopt or author open educational resources and helps to make these available to anyone who wants to use them.
Angelique Carson
Washington Research Library Consortium (2023-2025)
Angelique is the Shared Collections Librarian at the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC) and currently serves as co-chair of the WRLC’s Textbook Affordability Working Group (TAWG). Angelique has held Librarian posts at Southern University of New Orleans, the Southern Food and Beverage Culinary Library and Archive, the Catholic University of America and Howard University.
Daniela Dutra Elliott
University of Hawai'i - Leeward Community College (2023-2026)
Daniela has been a faculty member at University of Hawai'i-Leeward Community College where she serves as program coordinator for the Sustainable Agriculture Program. She has worked to develop OER materials for her classes and is passionate about the opportunities OER brings to localizing materials so they are relevant to people of diverse backgrounds.
Mark Lane
Oregon State University (2023-2025)
Mark is the Open Educational Resources production manager at Oregon State University. He works alongside faculty and students to develop and publish high-quality and accessible course materials. He received his MSEd from Western Oregon University, where he specialized in educational technology and instructional design.
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Christina Riehman-Murphy
The Pennsylvania State University (2023-2025)
Christina is the Open and Affordable Educational Resources Librarian at Penn State. In this role she coordinates the expansion of open education initiatives across Penn State’s many campuses. She is embedded in an English class on an open pedagogy project where undergraduate students are contributing to an open anthology. She has her MSLS from Clarion University and her BA in English and Secondary Education from the Catholic University of America.
Kelly Smith
Advisory Group Co-Chair
Eastern Kentucky University (2023-2026)
Kelly is the Director of Collections and Discovery at Eastern Kentucky University Libraries, and oversees EKU Libraries’ open publishing efforts, among other responsibilities. She received her MSLIS from Simmons College. Areas of interest in her library practice include: Open Educational Practices; Strengths Based Leadership; Assessment; and Library Collection Management.
Christina Trunnell
Montana State University (2023-2025)
Christina is the statewide OER Coordinator for TRAILS, the academic library consortium of Montana. She facilitates education, outreach, faculty grants, and state publishing to Montana’s public, tribal, and private institutions. Christina has 15 years of experience as an academic library director and writing faculty member as well as a background in diversity, equity, and inclusion work and community service programs.
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Jason Yamashita
University of Hawai'i - Leeward Community College (2023-2025)
Jason joins the advisory group in his role as OER Librarian at Leeward Community College (Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi). He contributes to training, programming, and management for the University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges’ open education initiative serving seven campuses across the state. He holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Dominican University in Illinois.
TOOLS
Pressbooks
Pressbooks is a software that enables authors and publishers to create a variety of book formats. Pressbooks offers a discount code to OEN members for one year of free access. They also offer 30% savings on single institution Pressbooks plans to OEN institutional and allied members. Go to Pressbooks for more info.
Manifold
The Open Education Network has been awarded a 2022 Manifold Digital Service Award. A pilot group of OEN members is experimenting with Manifold for open educational practices, and will share what they learn with the broader OEN community at the conclusion of the pilot, including their recommendations as to whether the OEN offers Manifold to the community in the future.
Textbook Builder
Currently in development through a partnership with Coko, the Textbook Builder provides infrastructure for writing, designing, and producing open textbooks. This project was funded by IMLS (LG-36-19-0035-19).
RESOURCES
Pub101 Curriculum
An orientation to open textbook publishing for those who support faculty authors. It includes many adaptable templates and resources.
Authoring Guide
This guide for making open textbooks includes a checklist for getting started, case studies, and an overview of useful tools.
Editing Guide
A five-step guide for those who want to adapt an existing open textbook. It includes step-by-step instructions for importing and editing common open textbook files.
Adaptable OER Publishing Agreement
A starting point (CC BY) for higher education institutions that want to contract with their faculty to create OER.
Building An Open Textbook Publishing Program Series
A series of three webinars, each focusing on a key topic: 1) Should you publish? 2) How should you publish? and 3) Implementing a publishing program.
OER Publishing Toolkit
A collection of adaptable templates and resources organized chronologically by publishing phase.
Publishing Channel
A collection of videos related to publishing open textbooks, including navigating copyright, fair use, and building a publishing program with Pressbooks.
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