Rebus is delighted to announce the release of Making Ripples: A Guidebook to Challenge Status Quo in OER Creation. Making Ripples is a short resource designed to emphasize the importance and value of critically evaluating your practice. It explores the advantages using a diverse, equitable, inclusive (DEI) and Open lens throughout your work. In theKeep reading “Overview of Making Ripples: What’s in new DEI OER Guide”
Category: Rebus Community
News and updates about the Rebus Community, including open textbook projects, events and announcements, new initiatives, and software releases.
Curtain Call: Office Hours with OEN & Rebus
After 59 sessions with 145+ speakers and 1300+ attendees, we are sad to say goodbye to OER Office Hours. Since 2017, Rebus Community and Open Education Network have collaborated to co-host free, monthly webinars to discuss varied approaches to OER training, initiatives, and open publishing in various discipline areas. Office Hours has been a spaceKeep reading “Curtain Call: Office Hours with OEN & Rebus”
Rebus Facilitates OER that Make Students Feel Seen
The open publishing projects we support not only enhance the educational experiences of students, they also help students feel seen and supported on a personal level. One such project is a university-level LGBTQ+ studies textbook entitled Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach. Deb Amory, a cultural anthropologist and professor at SUNY Empire State College,Keep reading “Rebus Facilitates OER that Make Students Feel Seen”
Transforming Humanities Texts: Join the Team!
This project is part of the February 2021 Textbook Success Program cohort. Transforming Humanities Texts is a new project designed by Dr. Mary Isbell to bring open pedagogy into conversation with scholarly editing to support courses in disciplines including philosophy, literature, history, music, religion, and cultural studies. Her goal is to encourage rigorous (also, authentic and enjoyable) reading experiences for studentsKeep reading “Transforming Humanities Texts: Join the Team!”
Writing and Publishing in Digital Environments: Now Inviting Contributors Across Disciplines!
Are you a college instructor who helps students learn how to write or design for the web? Help us build an interdisciplinary open textbook that will serve as a vital resource for students! We are currently seeking short section contributions for the textbook, Writing and Publishing in Digital Environments. This project is part of theKeep reading “Writing and Publishing in Digital Environments: Now Inviting Contributors Across Disciplines!”
Starting with Accessibility in Mind
Open & Online. Post 6 Open & Online was a series of free weekly community gatherings organized by Rebus Community on a theme related to open textbooks as courseware and online collaboration. Participants received a free book on a shared instance of PressbooksEDU courtesy of Pressbooks. This program will not continue, but all resources willKeep reading “Starting with Accessibility in Mind”
Essentials of Speedy OER Creation
Open & Online. Post 5 Open & Online was a series of free weekly community gatherings organized by Rebus Community on a theme related to open textbooks as courseware and online collaboration. Participants received a free book on a shared instance of PressbooksEDU courtesy of Pressbooks. This program will not continue, but all resources willKeep reading “Essentials of Speedy OER Creation”
Asynchronous Student Engagement using Social Annotation
Open & Online. Post 4 Open & Online was a series of free weekly community gatherings organized by Rebus Community on a theme related to open textbooks as courseware and online collaboration. Participants received a free book on a shared instance of PressbooksEDU courtesy of Pressbooks. This program will not continue, but all resources willKeep reading “Asynchronous Student Engagement using Social Annotation”
Building Effective Online Assessment
Open & Online. Post 3 Open & Online is a series of free weekly community gatherings organized by Rebus Community on a theme related to open textbooks as courseware and online collaboration. Participants receive a free book on a shared instance of PressbooksEDU courtesy of Pressbooks. Remote learning doesn’t mean that students only access andKeep reading “Building Effective Online Assessment”
Video Conference Facilitation
Open & Online. Post 2 Open & Online is a series of free weekly community gatherings organized by Rebus Community on a theme related to open textbooks as courseware and online collaboration. Participants receive a free book on a shared instance of PressbooksEDU courtesy of Pressbooks. At Rebus, we’ve found video conferencing to be aKeep reading “Video Conference Facilitation”