Educational Technology for Strong Schools: Using Open Pedagogy and Collaborative Writing to Create a Student-Authored Open Access Book

Abstract

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 describe the case study results.