Stay tuned... Open Educational Leadership Program Capstone Project
If you create an open textbook, will it get used? How can we measure its usage? What’s the best way to get the word out about a new open educational resource? These are some of the questions I hope to answer in the coming months with my capstone project for the SPARC Open Education Leadership project. When faculty spend the time and resources necessary to create an OER, the greatest reward is seeing it used in and outside of the classroom. As a librarian, working in library publishing, I believe that there are ways to promote open material, make them more discoverable, and measure the impact of an OER. Library publishers and faculty engaged in OER don’t have big marketing budgets or sales people. Success can’t be measured by number of sales. For these reasons, publishers and faculty need to think of creative new ways to market their work, for little money, and consider what success looks like for their OER. In the spring of 2018, the Illinois Open Publishing Network (IOPN) will p
