A 2021 OERizona Keynote

ALAN LEVINE
COG.DOG • COGDOGBLOG.COM

a presentation for the 2021 Arizona OER Conference
February 19, 2021

http://show.cogdog.casa/kitchen/

Across British Columbia’s higher education sector, BCcampus has been successful at expanding the development and adoption of a growing number of open textbooks. A next level effort is support by their Open Homework Systems Project, aimed at taking on the proliferation of commercial publishers’ homework problem platforms. This supported a first round of projects aimed at updating existing open textbooks authored in Pressbooks with infusions of interactive practice activities created with H5P software. The metaphor of “cooking with H5P and Pressbooks” in a kitchen was designed to reinforce the experimental practice, working / deviating from recipes, and the communal attributes of these familiar spaces. This presentation will provide an overview of the project and share examples from the first “spiced up” textbooks now available for use and reuse. What can be better than home cooking?

Audio recording of presentation
Enter the Kitchen
  1. Hello, Metaphor
  2. Scrolling for Online Recipes
  3. A Recipe to Boil Water?
  4. BCcampus
  5. Elements of H5P
  6. Self-Contained Media
  7. Pressbooks
  8. Project Plan
  9. Out of the Kitchen, Onto the Table
  10. Let’s Branch