This digital textbook was developed through an “open pedagogy” approach with over 100 Austin Community College students contributing footnotes, introductory chapters, digital learning objects, and test bank questions with a student audience in mind. 86 chapters cover 1,000 years of British literature featuring primary source texts commonly assigned for survey courses of British Literature (ENGL […]
The Time is Now: A Call to Open History
This essay was originally posted on ActiveHistory.ca I’ve been a rather slow convert to the open-access movement. Though ActiveHistory.ca operates under a Creative Commons Attribution, non-commercial ShareALike copyright license whereby you’re free to repost this (or any other essay you find here) so long as you provide us with attribution and do not profit, […]
The Open Patchbooks
The Open Faculty Patchbook is a community ‘patchwork’ of teaching skills and experiences. Each ‘patch’ has been written by a professor in higher education and is focused on one particular pedagogical skill. Together, these patches create a how-to-teach manual for higher education that is openly licensed and available to anyone. As mentioned, each chapter covers […]
Student-Created Open “Textbooks” as Course Communities
I have found that my most rewarding practices in Open have involved creating OERs with students. This short post will gather together some of my writings and examples related to student-created OERs. I started this work by building The Open Anthology of American Literature with a group of undergraduates and recent alums from Plymouth State […]
