Can We Write Textbooks the Way We Write Scholarship?

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Cost: None

Sponsors:
Fulfilling the Promise of Open Access Textbooks, a 2009-2011 FIPSE special grant project of the Florida Distance Learning Consortium, State of Florida

AND

College Open Textbooks: funded by a grant from the Hewlett Foundation.

Contact:
David Nelson
Florida Distance Learning Consortium
dnelson@distancelearn.org
(850) 922-3359
Can We Write Textbooks the Way We Write Scholarship?
Sponsored by the FIPSE OpenAccessTextbooks grant and College Open Textbooks

Friday, November 19, 2010
2:00 - 3:00 PM EST
11:00 AM - Noon PST


Presenters:

Charles Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky,

Editors of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing
an open textbook series for college first year writing classes


Charles and Pavel will discuss the principles behind and production processes of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Writing Spaces is a peer-reviewed, edited collection of individually authored essays on writing. The traditional proposal and peer review process employed by Writing Spaces not only gives the college teacher-as-author a line on her CV, one that should be more favorable to tenure and review committees than some other models of open textbook production, but also serves to build the ethos of the project within the open textbook movement.

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Please contact David Nelson at dnelson@distancelearn.org or (850) 921-2796 if you have any questions regarding the webinar, registration, or have an idea for a webinar topic or speaker. Thank you for your continued interest in open textbooks!