The cost of developing an open textbook: $80,000 – $130,000
Open textbooks may be free, but they are not without cost.
So what is the cost of developing an open textbook from scratch?
Answer: a minimum of $80,000,...
Measuring the success of an open textbook
I have just come back from two days at one of my favourite communities of practice, the British Columbian Educational Technology Users' Group (ETUG)...
10 key takeaways about differences between classroom, blended, online and open learning
Lucky readers: you get a bonus! This is really a brief summary of all of the ten previous posts on this topic, which constitute...
A future vision for OER and online learning
For each chapter of my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, I am developing imaginary but hopefully realistic scenarios. In this scenario,...
The implications of ‘open’ for course and program design: towards a paradigm shift
I am usually very cautious not to use the term 'paradigm shift', but I do believe that the term is justified by the implications of...
Integrating open textbooks, open research and open data into teaching
This is the third of five posts on open education for my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. The previous two posts...
Making sense of open educational resources
This is the second of five posts on open education from Chapter 10 of my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. The...
What do we mean by ‘open’ in education?
"I'm just a committed and even stubborn person who wants to see every child getting quality education"
Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize speech, 2014
This is the...
Networking (and novelty) as criteria for media selection
Almost there! This section covers the 'N' in the SECTIONS model for the chapter on media selection for my online open textbook, Teaching in...
Seeking the unique pedagogical characteristics of video
Figure 9. The Open University on iTunesU
This is the third post on the unique characteristics of different media, for my open textbook, Teaching in a...