Update on BC OTB project
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Clint Lalonde
Jun 4, 2013, 12:28:10 PM6/4/13
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Just wanted to give everyone a quick update on the 1st phase of the open
textbook project.
Phase 1 was to recruit faculty from the BC system to review 10 existing open textbooks from the commons, including the OpenStax Physics, Sociology and Biology texts.
Originally, our hope was that we could find 20 faculty from the BC post-sec system to write reviews (2 per textbook). When the RFP closed last week, we had over 60 faculty applications representing 20 institutions to review the 10 textbooks - an excellent response from our provincial post-sec system.
After some internal discussions, we have decided rather than limit the reviews to the original 20, we will expand the review process and accept reviews from all the faculty who have applied to participate. We are also in the process of finding additional textbooks to our original 10 for areas where we had an exceptional response (Statistics, Chemistry and Psychology).
We are now coordinating the review process with the faculty who are taking part. All the reviews are due by September 3 and will be publicly posted alongside of the textbook on open.bccampus.ca. Each review will be released under a CC license that allows others to reuse our faculty reviews on their sites.
Cheers,
Clint
Phase 1 was to recruit faculty from the BC system to review 10 existing open textbooks from the commons, including the OpenStax Physics, Sociology and Biology texts.
Originally, our hope was that we could find 20 faculty from the BC post-sec system to write reviews (2 per textbook). When the RFP closed last week, we had over 60 faculty applications representing 20 institutions to review the 10 textbooks - an excellent response from our provincial post-sec system.
After some internal discussions, we have decided rather than limit the reviews to the original 20, we will expand the review process and accept reviews from all the faculty who have applied to participate. We are also in the process of finding additional textbooks to our original 10 for areas where we had an exceptional response (Statistics, Chemistry and Psychology).
We are now coordinating the review process with the faculty who are taking part. All the reviews are due by September 3 and will be publicly posted alongside of the textbook on open.bccampus.ca. Each review will be released under a CC license that allows others to reuse our faculty reviews on their sites.
Cheers,
Clint
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