Since the launch of the Sprint Lab in 2019, we have experimented to apply the Book Sprints method to different formats, specifically for educational materials: Both writing new textbooks, and updating, improving and expanding existing open educational resources. We share ... read more
Together with our clients Free Press Unlimited and Greenhost, we were interested in trying out how we were interested in trying out how we could produce an online course at Book Sprints. The topic of the course? How to bypass internet censorship in ... read more
As we recently concluded a Book Sprint at the United Arab Emirates University on the topic of robotics in education, we look back on the first Book Sprint on robotics that we did. In 2018, some of the same participants ... read more
Book Sprints operations manager and facilitator trainee Karina Piersig recently travelled to Chicago, Illinois to attend the Editoria Community Meeting. Book Sprints rely on Editoria as the technological infrastructure upon which our facilitators and Book Sprints participants collaborate to author, ... read more
This is the first of a series of posts planned to shed light on the many ways Book Sprints will explore becoming a greener organisation. While we are still in the planning stages, Book Sprints has donated funding to the ... read more
According to the Association of American Publishers’ annual report, covering all kinds of trade and educational books, the total US books market was worth $26 billion in revenue in 2018. What’s surprising about this figure is the low percentage of ... read more
Open Scholarship and the Need for Collective Action, was produced via Book Sprint, released in late October, and has already been downloaded over 2,500 times in less than two months. The authors responsible for this high impact publication represent Knowledge ... read more
To document a fantastic year ending, and to and celebrate a bright, new year’s beginning, the Book Sprints bunch sat down to share reflections and learnings from 2019. We hope you enjoy! Q: How many Sprints did the team do ... read more
In 2019 we had the pleasure of starting to work with a new client: VMware, a USA-based software company that provides cloud computing and virtualisation software and services. The first Book Sprint with VMware took place in July in Miami Beach, ... read more
In order to support and lend transparency into our organization’s continued growth and new initiatives, such as Sprint Lab, Book Sprints has added support for communications via my new venture, O’Connell Consulting. We are excited about working together to quickly ... read more
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