Strong Schools: Collaborative Open Access Textbooks

Open educational resources (OER) are learning materials that are available for free under a creative commons license. Open educational resources and open-access materials have made it easy to connect students to a world of learning at their fingertips. This paper outlines how to use open-access textbooks as collaborative writing projects drawing from a case study with 22 students at the Asian University for Women. The authors provide an overview of the intersection of open access textbooks and collaborative writing projects and describes the results of the case study.

Stefanie Panke
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Stefanie Panke is the digital pedagogy coach at UNC School of Social Work. She is the contact person for faculty to talk through effective strategies for online learning and teaching, discuss the pedagogical potential of educational technology trends and tools and engage in scholarship of teaching and learning.

From 2012-2023, Stefanie was the lead instructional designer at UNC School of Government, where she supported course design and delivery, produced e-books, podcasts, infographics and video content, facilitated workshops and coordinated ed-tech projects and initiatives. Her research interests comprise design thinking, open educational resources, social media and innovative pedagogies.

She is editor and writer for the blog magazine AACE Review. She is an adjunct instructor at Johns Hopkins University and Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Germany. Stefanie received her Ph.D. in applied linguistics with a thesis on information design for educational portals from the University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Israt Jahan Oeeshi
Asian University for Women
Bangladesh

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