Presentation at the conference: Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW2018) on November 1st in Ankara, Turkey.

1. Publishing an open textbook on
information management
IMCW 2018
Peter Becker
The Hague University of Applied Sciences
p.g.becker@hhs.nl
Bccampus.ca

2. • Moocs
• Open Courseware
• Textbooks
Wikimedia.org
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Open_Science_-_Prinzipien.png

3. An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open
copyright license and made available online to be freely
used by students, teachers and members of the public.
Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research
materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the
public domain or have been released under an open license that
permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others
with no or limited restrictions

4. • Improved quality
• Flexible access to sources
• (inter)active learning experience
• Currency of information
• Broader professional collaboration
• Use of teaching and learning
technology
Eric

5. Higher grades
http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1069&context=facpub
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ992490
Improved quality
Students DO have the
book!

6. Outside in

7. Former book: Published 2010 via
Publisher
No quality check, spellingcheck, etc.
Inspired by Open education
movement
Inside out

8. Step Actor
Idea/initiative Publisher or author(s)
Gather author(s) Publisher or author(s)
Writing Author(s)
Reviewing Peers and/or editor,
mostly organized by
publisher
Text editing Publisher
Lay-out Publisher
Printing Printer, via Publisher
Marketing Publisher
Selling Publisher, book store
35,- Euro
5,- for authors
30,- for publisher, store,
etc.Colleagues
Hired editor and
designer
Internet and printing
on demand

9. April 2017 : CC-BY-SA
Joyce van Aalten, Eric Sieverts, Peter Becker, Marjolein van der Linden, Christa van de Graaf

10. Step Actor
Idea/initiative Institution or author(s)
Gather author(s) Institution or author(s)
Writing Author(s)
Reviewing Peers and/or editor, students, board, organized by
author(s), editor and/or institution/library
Text editing Text editor (paid). Via library?
Lay-out Designer (paid). Via library?
Support in copyright issues/licensing Library
Printing Digital platform (via library),
eventually printing on demand
Marketing Author(s), via network, social media, etc.
Selling Digital platform, eventually printing on demand

12. • Open pedagogy
• Combination of outside in and
inside out
• Sharing, editing and writing with
students
Next step
Wikieducator.org

13. Consider using open
textbooks
Consider writing open
textbooks
Consider practice of open
pedagogy
Resumé: an invitation…
Lecturers Librarians
Support the use of open
textbooks
Consider facilitating the
process of publishing open
textbooks
p.g.becker@hhs.nl