Open Textbook Writing Fellowship: Fellowship Overview

Open Textbook Writing Fellowship

The Open Textbook Writing Fellowship is a two-semester long writing program to provide Duquesne faculty with the time and resources to produce their own free to use textbook. These open textbooks will be fully digital, permissible for use and editing under Creative Commons Copyright, simple to integrate into Canvas for courses, and designed to address the needs of a specific course offered at Duquesne University.

Along with providing faculty with designated times to write, revise, and peer review their course materials, this fellowship will include workshops on open education and open pedagogy, planning for digital books, publishing digital books, and more. At the end of the fellowship, each participating faculty member will have a digital, open textbook published in the Duquesne Scholarship Collection. These textbooks will be available for their students, other instructors, and peers in their field.

Fellowship Learning Objectives:

After this fellowship, faculty members will be able to:

• Understand the process of designing, writing, and publishing a digital textbook,
• Publish a completed, digital textbook that is free for their students to use,
• Recognize the impact that open course materials can have on their students, course design, and themselves as instructors,
• Serve as champions of open textbooks on campus.

Upcoming Information Sessions:

Register for an information session at: Gumberg Library Events