{"id":1129,"date":"2010-02-01T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1129"},"modified":"2010-02-01T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T18:03:07","slug":"favourite-open-textbook-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/favourite-open-textbook-example\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s your favourite Open Textbook example?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/u.nu\/7awv4\">http:\/\/u.nu\/7awv4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2010 promises to be the year of the Open Textbook here in BC as we turn our attention to helping existing open textbooks get adopted by institutions in our province, help our system partners get involved in existing projects and potentially start new ones.<\/p>\n<p>As part of this, I am really interested in hearing about the best examples already out there of Open Textbooks. If you know of a great example, can you take 2 minutes and let us know via this <a href=\"http:\/\/u.nu\/7awv4\">google form<\/a>?I promise all results wil be shared.<\/p>\n<p>I know the avant garde of ed tech will gripe loudly about the content-centric nature of this request, and while I don&#8217;t philosophically disagree, given existing practices in institutions, Open Textbooks represent a near term all-round win (well, except for maybe the publishers, ahem) that we need to help entrench the philosophy of openness and sharing in our public institutions. &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/u.nu\/7awv4 2010 promises to be the year of the Open Textbook here in BC as we turn our attention to helping existing open textbooks get adopted by institutions in our province, help our system partners get involved in existing projects and potentially start new ones. As part of this, I am really interested in hearing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/01\/favourite-open-textbook-example\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What&#8217;s your favourite Open Textbook example?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}