OpenTextbook Authors and Other Creators

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Comment by Una Daly on June 28, 2011 at 4:07pm

Need some help figuring out which open license to use for publishing your new or revised open textbook.  Here is an online wizard to help you blend creative commons licenses from JISC and web2rights.

 

http://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/creativecommons/

Comment by Joe Moxley on February 20, 2011 at 6:01am

As mentioned in our Mission Statement, our primary goal is to provide the resources and community students need to improve their writing, particularly students enrolled in courses that require college-level writing.  We believe learning materials should be free for all students and teachers–part of the cultural commons.  Hence, we provide free access to an award-winning, college textbook that was published by a major textbook publisher and awarded the Distinguished Book Awardby Computers and Composition: an International Journal.  

Process: Trouble with procrastination?  Curious about how to work smarter not harder?

Learn how to improve your ability to manage writing projects, innovate, collaborate, revise, and edit.  Understand when to play the believing gameversus the doubting game.  Adopt the working habits and attitudes of effective writers.

Research:   Assigned a research project?  

Consult the Research Primer to understand why different professions and academic discipines use divergent research methods. Learn the conventions of textual research, especially guidelines for evaluating, citing, and summarizing sources.  Explore empirical research methods, including surveys, ethnographies, and case studies.

Genres: Confused about your reader's expectations?

Understand the genres employed by writers in four communities: Creative Writing, Academic Writing, Professional & Technical Writing, and New Media Writing. 

Community: Looking for a good place to think, write and share?

We believe students learn by writing to other writers, so we've created an authoring space at Community.  Teachers, you can use the group tools to establish discussion spaces for your classes.  Students in your classes create a course blog, chat with classmates, and share pictures and notes.  Feel free to use our community tools to discuss readings, drafts, and ideas for writing projects.

 

Please see Writers Wanted if  you wish to contribute to this project.  Our distinguished Editorial Board is eager to work with you to produce a new kind of writing textbook, one that employs new media and more interactive features to better meet students' needs.

Comment by Bill Buxton on October 11, 2010 at 2:37pm

UniqU provided an informative lesson on October 4th on how to use the Connexions repository for your work. Archive link is below. Fast forward to 8:00 minutes to get right to their presentation. Another lesson is planned in a few weeks. We'll keep you posted.

http://tiny.cc/cnxlessonI

Comment by Jud Sage on September 17, 2010 at 12:42pm

I have been using the web in teaching history since 1996, and after using "Outline of American History" for several years in online teaching, I filled out my web site and added an optional print version for students.

Comment by Jacky Hood on June 27, 2010 at 9:42am

Textbook Writing Tutorial
http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Textbook_writing_tutorial

Comment by Una Daly on May 20, 2010 at 11:34am

Hi John,
What kind of open licensing are you looking at using for your textbook?
Best,
Una

Comment by John Nicolay on May 20, 2010 at 6:44am

Presently developing text to be used in a graduate class on executive leadership and strategic management of information technologies. This is a collaborative project.

Comment by Kenneth Leroy Busbee on January 24, 2010 at 8:21pm

I author an OCW textbook on the Connexions Project which uses the Creative Commons Attribution License. Title: Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++