Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion

[Richard White <richard.white AT otago.ac.nz>]

Hi Wayne,

 

I’ve copied this to Erika.  They were working on it in draft form ‘behind closed doors’ (using Wordpress).  And there’ll be a process of post-editing now.  The goal for the weekend was to sprint-write as much content as possible.  We’ll be sure to publicise it when the first edition is out.

 

RW

 

From: cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:cc-nz-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh
Sent: Tuesday, 19 November 2013 10:12 a.m.
To: Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand discussion
Subject: Re: [Cc-nz] Congratulations to the Open Textbook Project team!

 

Thanks Matt,

 

An congratulations to all involved in progressing open textbooks in this part of the world. 

 

As an open textbook -- Is there a public link where we can access the early drafts? I'm keen to see how the OERu network could potential adopt this open text in one of our courses for formal academic credit. 

 

Wayne

 

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Matt McGregor <Matt.McGregor AT royalsociety.org.nz> wrote:

Hi all,

 

In case you missed it, a team at Otago University, alongside teams across Australasia, spent this last weekend writing an undergraduate Media Studies textbook.  The team are going to spend the next few months editing the results, in time for the start of the first semester, 2014.

 

They’ve also been assiduously documenting their planning sessions – and even recording hangouts – so that they can also produce a ‘cookbook’ for other open textbook teams to learn from the experiment.  If you want to learn more, I introduce the project here. The press release has some choice quotes from Erika and Richard, and can be read here.

The ODT, Techday and Idealog also wrote about the project.

 

Congratulations to all involved!

 

Cheers,
Matt

 

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