Open Textbooks and Digital Sanctuaries

CAN OPEN TEXTBOOKS HELP SHAPE THE WEB AND AT THE SAME TIME BE A DIGITAL SANCTUARY FOR ONLINE READING?

How Open Textbooks Help Shape the Web

Reading Over our Shoulders

“Reading activity was once a “black box,” Cohen said, but when virtually every student in a course is using the same platform to study, publishers can gather usage data that could influence changes made to future editions of the course materials. Faculty members, meanwhile, can consult a dashboard to see the topics students struggle with and alter their lectures accordingly…”

Open Textbooks and Pressbooks – Own Our Reading Data

BCcampus Open Textbooks https://open.bccampus.ca/

Open Textbook by Giula Forsyth, dedicated to the Public Domain