A Toolkit to Get Your Open Textbook off the Ground November 2017 Mariya Maistrovskaya Institutional Repositories Librarian mariya.maistrovskaya@utoronto.ca Stephanie Orfano Acting Head, Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office stephanie.orfano@utoronto.ca Kite by Setyo Ari Wibowo from Noun Project

How did this all start?

Team Katya Pereyaslavska (project lead) Online Learning + Accessibility Librarian ScholarsPortal Ontario Council of University Libraries Stephanie Orfano Acting Head, Scholarly Communications & Copyright Office University of Toronto Libraries Mariya Maistrovskaya Institutional Repositories Librarian Laurie Harrison Director, Online Learning Strategies University of Toronto Nick Baker Director, Office of Open Learning University of Windsor Giulia Forsythe Special Project Facilitator Centre for Pedagogical Innovation Brock University

Why a toolkit? Existing guides mostly focused on platforms from a technical/formatting perspective Gap in the resources available addressing the planning and development of an open text in plain language Bright Lightbulb by Martyn Jasinski from the Noun Project

A closer look at the toolkit

Content Development Process Phase Timeline Selected Output Phase 1: Needs Analysis February 2017 - April 2017 Needs Analysis Survey Environmental Scan Phase 2: Content Development May 2017 - September 2017 Writing! Open up living document (Google Doc) for comment from community Card sorting exercise Phase 3: Open eText Start Up Kit Production October 2017 - December 2017 Publish Open Textbook Toolkit - open for comments and sharing! Anywhere we can improve? Phase 4: Dissemination and Sustaining the Project January 2018 - March 2018 Can we track interactions? What have we learned? Final report Ongoing Activities: Open Textbook Developers Community of Practice Webinars Updates & strategies sharing from other eCampus grant recipients Check Mark by Karan from Noun Project

Card sorting exercise Cluster analysis "This was a good activity and useful to help me think about the order of things in a potential open textbook adoption, adaptation, or new creation...” “... this is a great tool and a really wonderful idea. I'd be interested to see how your feedback gets aggregated...

Open Textbook Toolkit live http://openetext.onlinelearning.utoronto.ca/ Feedback welcome at: online.learning@utoronto.ca

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