In Winter 2024, Spokane Community College’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC) ran a quarter-long Community of Practice (CoP) on Pressbooks and Open Education. This CoP provided a paid opportunity to faculty from all areas of the college to come together and learn together about publishing openly licensed textbooks in a structured, hybrid format. In this presentation, Faculty Librarian Greg Bem, one of the participants of the CoP, will describe the CoP format in detail, and share his experience participating. The presentation will include Bem’s completed textbook, which was successfully created using original and remixed materials in the 10-week quarter. This presentation provides insight into the values of structured employee development, and describes how the CoP model can respond to historic inclusivity and equity concerns in the context of in-house open education publishing.
Attendees of this session will be able to:- Analyze the structured hybrid format of the Community of Practice (CoP) to understand its application in open education publishing.
- Evaluate the impact of a collaborative learning environment on the creation of openly licensed textbooks.
- Identify strategies for addressing inclusivity and equity concerns through the CoP model in open education initiatives.
- Examine a completed project outcome to assess the effectiveness of the CoP approach in producing open educational resources.
