BCcampus welcomes proposals for the 4th annual Open Textbook Summit, May 24-25, 2017 at SFU Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada). The Open Textbook Summit attracts a wide range of higher education participants including faculty, students, open educators, project staff, librarians, as well as government policy makers and institutional leaders.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers for the 2017 Open Textbook Summit:

• Ryan Merkley, CEO Creative Commons
• Kory Wilson, Executive Director, Aboriginal Initiatives and Partnerships at BCIT

Topics

Topics for this year’s summit include:

1. Faculty experiences adopting, adapting or creating open textbooks
2. Student advocacy in open textbook adoption and adaptation
3. The Open Textbook Project in BC: sharing experiences and resources
4. The importance of Provincial policy in establishing funding programs for open educational resources
5. The role of librarians in supporting open textbooks
6. Open textbook research initiatives
7. Open textbook peer review processes
8. Institutional support for open textbook adoptions
9. Technology to support the development and use of open textbooks
10. Innovative pedagogical activities involving open textbooks and open pedagogy
11. Open textbooks adoption challenges and how to overcome them
12. Open textbooks and open pedagogy
13. Open textbooks: issues of quality in open education