Author: lizmays

December’s topic for Rebus / OTN Office Hours is International Perspectives on Open Textbooks, and this month, we’re doing things a little differently. The Rebus Community headquarters is located in Montreal, Quebec, with our brilliant marketing manager based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Our partners, the Open Textbook Network, are also U.S.-based, and as a result, weKeep reading “Rebus/OTN Office Hours: International Perspectives on Open Textbooks (December 2017)”

Open Textbook Network & Rebus Community Host Office Hours Beta Testing Open Textbooks Oct. 25, 4 p.m. EST Guest Speakers: Michael Laughy, Assistant Professor of Classics, Washington & Lee University; Dianna Fisher, Director of Open Oregon State; Elizabeth Mays, Rebus & Arizona State University; and others TBD The ability to beta-test open textbooks with studentsKeep reading “October Office Hours: Beta Testing Open Textbooks”

September 26, 12 p.m. EST Guest Speakers Maha Bali, Tara Robertson, Susan Doner, and others TBD We have an opportunity to leverage open educational values to create a vibrant publishing culture. How do we increase diversity, equity and inclusion in OER publishing? How can we work together to ensure that diverse voices are equally valued?Keep reading “September Office Hours: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in OER”

Open Textbook Network & Rebus Community Host Office Hours Wednesday Aug. 30, 2 p.m. EST Guest Speakers: Laura Dawson and Naomi Eichenlaub What are best practices for open textbook metadata, in order to maximize discoverability and account for the utility and remixability of openly licensed materials? How might we standardize metadata across open textbooks? What attributes shouldKeep reading “August Office Hours: Metadata for Open Textbooks”

Open Textbook Network & Rebus Community Host Office Hours: Keeping Open Textbooks Up to Date Guest Speakers: Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus; Shane Nackerud, University of Minnesota Libraries; Kristen Munger, SUNY Oswego Wednesday, July 26, 2 p.m. EST RSVP Technology enables open textbooks to become living documents with longer lifespans than traditionally published textbooks. With that inKeep reading “July Office Hours: Keeping Open Textbooks Up to Date”

Monday, June 5, at 3 p.m. EST Topic: Accessibility in Open Textbooks Guest Speakers: Josie Gray, BCcampus; Jess Mitchell, OCAD University; Michelle Reed, University of Texas at Arlington Libraries; Krista Greear, University of Washington What are the best practices to ensure accessibility in open textbooks? In this session, we will talk about methods to ensure accessibilityKeep reading “June Office Hours: Accessibility in Open Textbooks”

Monday, May 1, at 3 p.m. EST Topic: OER Workflows for Open Textbooks Guest Speakers: Allison Brown, SUNY Geneseo; Rebel Cummings-Sauls, Kansas State University; Dianna Fisher, Oregon State; Billy Meinke, University of Hawaii; and Anthony Palmiotto, OpenStax Is there a typical process and timeline for producing an open textbook? Where are the pain points? HowKeep reading “Next Office Hours: OER Workflows for Open Textbooks”

In this month’s Rebus Community & Open Textbook Network Office Hours we were joined by special guests to discuss peer review for open textbooks. Anthony Palmiotto, Editorial Director at OpenStax, discussed the OpenStax approach to peer review, the first part of which follows a traditional in-development review model, similar to that of the major commercialKeep reading “Office Hours Recap: Peer Review for Open Textbooks”