Introduction to Open Textbooks
Ended Mar 31, 2022
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Full course description
Term: Spring 2022
Date: March 31st, 2022
Time: 9:30am - 10:30am
Location: Newman 207A
Instructors: Anita Walz & Daron Williams
Presented By: Technology Enhanced Learning & Online Strategies (TLOS) & Instructional Design (ID)
Description:
The University Libraries and TLOS will co-host a one-hour "Introduction to Open Textbooks" which includes:
- Discussion of course material perceptions and preferences
- Course material cost impacts on students, especially first-year and first-generation students
- What we mean (and don’t mean) by “open textbook”
- Creative Commons licenses
- Questions about implementation of openly-licensed resources at Virginia Tech
- VT’s guidelines on Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Textbooks
- Logistics of submitting reviews
The workshop is open to faculty and GTAs. Faculty who participate in the workshop and within six weeks submit a brief written review of an open textbook in their discipline will receive a $200 stipend funded by VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia. In order to be eligible for the stipend, registrants MUST also complete this form https://bit.ly/intro-open-textbooks PRIOR to the workshop. [GTAs are welcome to attend but are not eligible for the stipend.]
Open textbooks may be selected from the Open Textbook Library. The Open Textbook Library contains 1,000+ open textbooks that are openly licensed and freely available online. Further information on University Libraries' support for open educational resources (OER) is available at https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer