Presentation at the 2015 Open Education Conference in Vancouver

1. You Built a Textbook in
How Many Days?!?!!?!?!
Licensed by BCcampus with a CC-BY 4.0 license for reuse

2. You Built a Textbook in
How Many Days?!?!!?!?!

3. Barbara Rühling
BookSprints
Clint Lalonde
BCcampus
Arthur Gil Green
Okanagan / UBC

4. Barbara Rühling
BookSprints
Clint Lalonde
BCcampus
Arthur Gil Green
Okanagan / UBC
Amanda Coolidge
BCcampus
Brad Payne
BCcampus
Jon Strang
UBC Library
Britta Ricker
SFU
Cristina
Temenos
SFU
Aviv Ettya,
UFV
Faith Bosworth
BookSprints
Siobhan
McPhee,
UBC
Missing taking photo: Hilda Anngraeni

5. What is a Textbook Sprint?
The context: BC Open Textbook Project
What we did
What we learned doing it

6. What is a Textbook Sprint?
The context: BC Open Textbook Project
What we did
What we learned doing it

7. What is a Textbook Sprint?
The context: BC Open Textbook Project
What we did
What we learned doing it

8. What is a Textbook Sprint?
The context: BC Open Textbook Project
What we did
What we learned doing it

9. First Morning: Planning the book

10. Days 2-4

11. What is a Textbook Sprint?
The context: BC Open Textbook Project
What we did
What we learned doing it

12. Positives
Focus
System Wide Collaboration
First Draft Mind Frame
SOTL/Open Pedagogy
Working with OER
Librarian Role

13. Challenges
Missing BG Material
New People
Unfamiliar Technology
Locked Resources
Too close to Wreck Beach

14. Lessons Learned
More Prep Time
Closer Working Relationships
Open Licensing
Importance of Illustrator & Librarian
Subject Areas – Division of Labour
Remote vs Same Room participation
Ancillary Resources

15. More Information
Roundup of blog posts, photos, Twitter
archive available at
open.bccampus.ca/2014/07/03/book-sprint
Book available at
opentextbc.ca/geography