As we have discussed, the purpose of this informational unit is to explain our approach to creating open content with an equity lens. If you’re returning to this project for a second year then it was a review, and if you’re new then it was an introduction.

Next, Pilot Instructors will continue to Unit 2 and authors will jump to Unit 6 to start working. But before you go, keep reading to understand how meeting the project goals in Year 2 leads to completed projects by the end of Year 3.

If you’ve looked at the table of contents for this Pressbook, you’ve seen that Year 3 doesn’t have dedicated training units. Instead, project participants will rely on their Support Role units and close coordination with the Project Manager to finish and launch our projects.

Last Steps for Textbooks

During Year 2, we gather feedback on our textbooks from multiple sources:

• Peer reviewers review entire manuscripts.
• Pilot instructors provide chapter-level feedback about their experience teaching with the textbook.
• Students in pilot courses are requested to provide feedback via a form embedded in each chapter and through an end of term survey.

All this feedback is reviewed and analyzed by the Developmental Editor to create a revision plan that the Revising Author uses to finalize the manuscript in Year 3. Your project’s Revising Author will do a final round of revisions with an equity lens in Year 3 after we receive and summarize feedback on your book from students, instructors, and peer reviewers.

Members of the original author team have an opportunity to review the revised chapters they authored during Year 3. At that point in the project, it’s not possible to make further revisions to the book. Rather, we have two reasons for doing this step:

1. We want you to know what to expect before the book is published.
2. We will give you the option of removing your name from the work if you have objections to how it was revised. If you choose to do this, we will make sure that you have a copy of the previous version of your work, which you can use in any way you want including sharing publicly with an open license.

Textbooks then go through the final production steps for launch:

• Copyedit
• Pressbooks import
• Proofread
• Final cleanup

At the very end of the process, we market your book with a launch party, requests for reviews, and any other shouting from the rooftops that we can do to bring attention to your new publication.

Last Steps for Course Packs

During Year 2, Pilot Instructors participate in feedback in the following ways:

• Ask students in their pilot course to provide feedback on the assigned textbook chapters
• Give feedback that the Revising Author will use to improve the textbook during Year 3
• Receive feedback from the students in their pilot course that they will use to improve their course design and materials
• Receive feedback from the Workforce Advisory Board that they will use to incorporate workplace skills and scenarios into their course materials.

All course pilots are complete by the end of Year 2. Depending on when you teach your pilot course, you may still be revising during Year 3. After you revise, your Instructional Designer will review your materials for consistency and accessibility and add them to the course pack site.

At the end of Year 3, the Instructional Designer will make sure that course packs are still aligned with the revised textbook. Course pack sites are linked from the launch textbook (and vice versa) so that future instructors can find all the information they need to teach with the textbook.

Additional Year 3 Activity

Early Adoption Instructors teach with a revised version of the textbook manuscript during Year 3. They create ancillaries that we share with other related course materials in our OERCommons repository group. They receive support from the Instructional Designer while they design their course and while they revise their materials after teaching.

Licenses and Attributions for Open Curriculum Development Project Goals for Year 3

“Open Curriculum Development Project Goals for Year 3” by Open Oregon Educational Resources is licensed under CC BY 4.0.