The Proposal Having won a competition to develop an open textbook for his Critical Filipinx American Histories course through the UW Libraries Open Textbook Grant program, University of Washington American Ethnic Studies Professor Rick Bonus headed into the fall of 2019 with an ambitious plan: to develop the textbook in Read more…
The Open Textbook Network and Coko kicked off a collaboration on December 11, 2019, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The two communities came together to address a shared problem: Helping authors write and design an open textbook. Together, over the next three years and supported by IMLS funding, Read more…
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 members will share their requirements and feedback to inform the 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 Textbook Network (OTN), in partnership with Coko. “A National Platform 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 shared, announce their partnership to broaden the production and distribution 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 webinars for its membership on OER publishing from a strategic 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 member of the Co-op! Inferring and Explaining is a book in Read more…
Supporting expansion of open education at higher education institutions MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (12/10/2017) — Nine higher education institutions are piloting a program to publish new, openly licensed textbooks. The program, called The Publishing Cooperative, was launched by the Open Textbook Network (OTN) to grow open textbook publishing expertise in higher education Read more…
The Open Textbook Network (OTN) is committed to providing a variety of affordable, flexible and scalable publishing support. With this in mind, we’re happy to announce a new benefit! OTN member institutions can now take 30% off the cost of PressbooksEDU Silver and Gold plans.* Pressbooks EDU Silver and Gold Read more…
Creative Commons USA, the Rebus Community, and the Open Textbook Network (OTN) have worked together to create an Adaptable Open Educational Resources (OER) Publishing Agreement. This document is a starting point for higher education institutions that are looking to contract with their faculty to create OER. It was developed in Read more…