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Prototyping The Open Textbook Toolkit: Digital Infrastructure That Connects Libraries, Disciplinary Faculty, And University Presses To Support Open Education, William M. Cross, Mira Waller
Prototyping The Open Textbook Toolkit: Digital Infrastructure That Connects Libraries, Disciplinary Faculty, And University Presses To Support Open Education, William M. Cross, Mira Waller
Digital Initiatives Symposium
If you care about access to information, student success, or transformative education you’re probably thinking about the potential of open educational resources (OERs). As a profession, librarians have embraced open education but so far, we have not given faculty instructors the tools or infrastructure needed to drive wide engagement. Faculty are interested in creating customized resources that empower their instruction but barriers around creation, hosting, and remix of OERs are too high.
This session introduces the Open Textbook Toolkit, a project designed to reduce those barriers and grounded in deep research about the unmet needs of instructors and students. Currently …