{"id":58,"date":"2016-04-07T21:21:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/?post_type=chapter&p=58"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T16:48:53","slug":"open-textbooks","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/adoptopentextbook\/chapter\/open-textbooks\/","title":{"raw":"Open Textbooks","rendered":"Open Textbooks"},"content":{"raw":"Drilling down into OER more deeply we find open textbooks, a subset of OER. Simply, an open textbook is a textbook that has been released with an open licence, typically a Creative Commons licence<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe open licence allows the textbook to be copied, shared, and revised. This means that the textbook can be distributed to students for free. It also means that educators have the right to change the content of the textbook, allowing textbooks to be customized to meet the specific needs of learners.\r\n

Knowledge belongs to everybody<\/h1>\r\nThis TEDxKyoto talk was delivered by Dr. David Ernst, Chief Information Officer in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota (video length is 6:43). In this presentation, Dr. Ernst explains what open textbooks are and explains some of the problems open textbooks are trying to solve. Dr. Ernst leads the Open Textbook Network<\/a> hosted at the University of Minnesota.\r\n