Open textbooks are textbooks that are free to use, adapt, modify, and repurpose. Importantly, they are free to students. In BC alone, open textbooks have saved students over 20 million in textbook costs. There are several well recognized open textbook collections of great quality.
Many of the textbooks in these collections have been peer reviewed, so they are considered to be of good quality.
For this challenge you will explore the BCcampus open textbook collection and see if there is an open textbook that is relevant to your area of teaching. There are currently 326 peer reviewed open textbooks and guides in the collection, and the number is continually growing.
Examples
- Environmental Science: A Canadian Perspective – contains interactive exercises if using the digital version
- Canadian History Pre-Confederation – contains glossaries, key terms, exercises
- Introduction to Sociology – includes section review quizzes
- Pulling Together: Foundations Guide – part of a series of guides to support systemic change in BC higher ed in the areas of Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation. It contains activities and knowledge checks and accessibility features.
Challenge
- Go to the BCcampus open textbook collection and find a textbook that is relevant to something that you teach. If you aren’t currently teaching, choose one that you are generally interested in.
- Share the link to the textbook you found in the comment section.
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=0a58e3e0-8003-4005-bf4d-6f3d5802b61b&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Trades%20-%20General
Here is my book choice:
Here is what I found: https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=badc4a42-41d1-438e-b4eb-dfa03664eb91&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
Not exactly what I am teaching at the moment, but I like to use this book for part of my teaching in the future.
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=fc9c22c2-f0e7-4a89-b746-c1fbee176810&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
I’m interested in exploring this textbook for potential use: Delftse Foundations of Computation, https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=888056f9-d689-4879-846a-6a0baae511ba&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
I work with this book regularly.
I wrongly thought the website fillable posted the link in the prior comment. Here it is:
http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/file/0a58e3e0-8003-4005-bf4d-6f3d5802b61b/1/D-1%282%29.pdf
I’m currently co-designing a Composition course. I’ll be able to use and repurpose
“Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence.” It is available online and as a Pressbooks xml file.
“It is designed for students who have largely mastered the conventions of high-school level writing and are now rising to meet more the advanced expectations of college. Students will find in Writing in College a warm invitation to think of themselves as full, self-motivated members of the academic community. With concise explanations, clear multi-disciplinary examples and empathy for the challenges of student life, this short textbook both explains the purposes behind college-level writing and offers indispensable advice for organization and expression.”
https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence/
Great resources already!
I too first thought the website to fill out was what I found… Here it is:
https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/openpedagogyapproaches/
I’d like to give this one a closer look:
The following textbook peaked my interest.
Northern and Indigenous Health and Healthcare
http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/file/a95ea46e-e139-4569-9e5f-c852751885e9/1/OTB265-01-Northern-and-Indigenous-Health-and-Healthcare.pdf
Here’s a book that is of interest to the work I currently do: FLO Facilitation Guide: Facilitating Learning Online found at https://opentextbc.ca/flofacilitatorguide/
This is the book I use regularly.
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=16301119-8ec4-4241-b0f7-cc87ffc942d6&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
A book I will be recommending to my faculty.
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=1590234d-58a6-4841-85f7-53c5c587f2a2&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Business%20-%20General
Hello!
Here is my answer to Challenge 1: https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=f1a0a087-fabe-42fd-b3b4-2a28b5425b2a&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
This book will be very helpful this semester. Thank you.