Coko and the Open Textbook Network will come together at the University of Minnesota on December 11 for an official kick-off of the IMLS-funded multi-year project to create an open textbook platform environment to support authors. An advisory group comprised of OTN community Read more…
Hi OTN! I am THRILLED to be joining Dave, Sarah, Karen, Barry and Mark as Director of Educational Programs the Open Textbook Network! I’m transitioning from the role of Dean of Graduate, Online & Adult Learning at the University of Read more…
MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, 07/01/2019 More faculty will be able to create their own open textbooks thanks to a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support a collaborative project led by the Open Read more…
At the heart of the OTN is a commitment to share questions, insights, and experiences so together we can enhance and develop open education programs. In that spirit, we invited members of our community to facilitate breakout sessions at the Read more…
The Open Textbook Network (OTN), an organization focused on improving higher education by supporting the use, publication, and distribution of openly licensed textbooks, and the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), an organization focused on transforming how knowledge is created, improved, and Read more…
Oh, hey, Open Textbook Network Community! Mark Sheaves here, the OTN’s new community manager. And to say that I am thrilled to be here would be an understatement. Wow, what an absolute privilege it is to join this vibrant community Read more…
To lead into our joint preconference to the Library Publishing Forum (Opening the Classroom: Publishing Open Educational Resources, 5/8/19), the Library Publishing Coalition and the Open Textbook Network are organizing a webinar “exchange”! OTN is holding a series of three Read more…
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (9/25/2017) — The Open Textbook Network is creating an Open Educational Resources (OER) Librarian Bootcamp. The professional development program will be designed in collaboration with the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and Creative Commons to create Read more…
Portland State University Library, a founding member of the Open Textbook Network Publishing Cooperative, has published Inferring and Explaining by Jeffery L. Johnson. This is the twentieth open textbook they’ve published through the PDXOpen Publishing Initiative Grant Program and the first textbook from a Read more…
The Open Textbook Network is excited to announce the inaugural cohort for the Certificate in OER Librarianship, the first program of its kind to offer professional development in open education and open education programming for librarians. The first cohort brings Read more…