Suggested Reading
General Authoring Resources
The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is a reference for individuals or groups wanting to write and self-publish an open textbook. This guide details open access textbook preparation, planning, writing, publication, and maintenance.
This guide is for faculty authors, librarians, project managers, and others involved in producing open textbooks in higher education and K-12. Content includes a checklist for getting started, publishing program case studies, textbook organization and elements, writing resources, and an overview of useful tools.
This is a five-step guide for faculty and those who support faculty who want to modify an open textbook. Step-by-step instructions for importing and editing the standard open textbook file and platform types are included.
The OER Starter Kit
This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources.
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far)
The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) is a living repository of collective knowledge, written to equip all those who want to publish open textbooks with the resources they need. Representing two years of collaboration, innumerable conversations and exchanges, and a wide range of collective knowledge and experience, the Guide is a book-in-progress and will evolve and grow over time. Join the project discussion and help shape its development!
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in OER Work
Open at the Margins: Critical Perspectives on Open Education
This book represents a starting point towards curating and centering marginal voices and non-dominant epistemic stances in open education. It includes the work of 43 diverse authors whose perspectives challenge the dominant hegemony.
Imagining better pedagogies is the first step in creating powerful learning environments. Better, for the authors of this collection, means more humanizing pedagogies that embrace the fact that the people in our learning environments are fantastic, curious, unpredictable, capable, and multi-layered.
Changing our (Dis)Course: A Distinctive Social Justice Aligned Definition of Open Education
Education literature is aligned to social justice principles, starting with the first UNESCO definition of Open Educational Resources (OER). A critical analysis of 19 texts was undertaken to track dominant and alternative ideas shaping the development of Open Education since 2002 as it broadened and developed from OER to Open Educational Practices (OEP). The paper begins by outlining the method of texts selection, including defining the three principles of social justice (redistributive, recognitive and representational justice) used as an analytical lens. Next the paper sets out findings which show where and how the principles of social justice became lost within the details of texts, or in other digital agendas and technological determinist debates. Finally, a new social justice aligned definition for Open Education is offered. The aim of the new definition is to provide new language and a strong theoretical framework for equitable education, as well as to clearly distinguish the field of Open Education from mainstream constructivist eLearning.
Using Pressbooks
The Pressbooks User Guide is your handbook for using Pressbooks effectively to produce books. This Guide covers the basics of Pressbooks, including how to quickly get a book into Pressbooks and out the other end as a beautifully designed webbook, ebook (EPUB), and print-ready PDF.Assessment
The purpose of the Open Education Resource Assessment toolkit is to evaluate the impact of OER. The toolkit describes assessment, recommends methods, covers types of course materials, and provides references that will help assess the effectiveness of selected materials. The toolkit also provides an assessment worksheet and Qualtrics survey question bank, which assists in developing the assessment plan.
Open Pedagogy
A Guide to Making Open Textbooks with Students
A handbook for faculty interested in practicing open pedagogy by involving students in the making of open textbooks, ancillary materials, or other Open Educational Resources. This is a first edition, compiled by Rebus Community, and we welcome feedback and ideas to expand the text.
