Fantastic!

Fiona

Fiona Whittington-Walsh, PhD

Chair, Department of Sociology, KPU

604-599-3072

Vice-President, Inclusion B.C.

From: Openkpu <openkpu-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca> on behalf of Judith DeGroot <judith.degroot@kpu.ca>
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 at 9:57 AM
To: Rajiv Jhangiani <rajiv.jhangiani@kpu.ca>, KPU Open Education listserv <openkpu@mail.bccampus.ca>
Subject: Re: [Openkpu] Cengage releases 3 current textbooks under an open license

Wow, this is a major development, great work Rajiv et al.

From: Openkpu [mailto:openkpu-bounces@mail.bccampus.ca] On Behalf Of Rajiv Jhangiani
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2018 3:51 PM
To: KPU Open Education listserv <openkpu@mail.bccampus.ca>
Subject: [Openkpu] Cengage releases 3 current textbooks under an open license

Hello everyone,

I hope you are enjoying this beautiful long weekend!

Some of you have been following the moves of commercial textbook publishers into Open Education. Although many are justifiably skeptical about these moves, I and other open education advocates have been meeting with some of them to explain what it means to be a good actor in Open Education (e.g., providing and not just reusing content, making editable files available, hosting OER on a platform that does not require registration, etc.). One of the groups I have recently discussed these issues with is Cengage. I am delighted to share the news that they have followed our advice and have today released three of their (current) textbooks under an open license. These three books are relevant to a few of our programs at KPU so I am sharing them on this listserv. They are:

English Composition 1: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/28908-cengage-opennow-english-composition-i-reading-lear/view

Developmental English: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/28906-cengage-opennow-developmental-english-reading-lear/view

College Success: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/28784-cengage-opennow-college-success-reading-learning-o/view

You can download these books in their entirety in both PDF and MS Word formats, edit them as you see fit, and reuse them in whole or in part. They each now carry a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) license.

Cheers,

Rajiv

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Rajiv Jhangiani, Ph.D.

Special Advisor to the Provost on Open Education & Psychology Instructor, Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Associate Editor, Psychology Learning and Teaching

Ambassador, Center for Open Science