We were thrilled to hear that the book resulting from a Book Sprint we produced last November already had 2,242 views and 1,182 downloads in January! Daniela Lowenberg from the University of California, said: It’s certainly made the rounds on ... read more
The textbook English Composition was produced in one of two OER Textbook Sprints at the University of Hawai’i last May, following the Sprint for a textbook in Microeconomics. This OER textbook has ... read more
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. College textbooks ... 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 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 Sprint participants collaborate to author, edit ... 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 ... 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
A new book, 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 ... 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
It’s no secret that our rapid authoring and editing process has relied on the open source, browser based books production system Editoria since 2018. Editoria has been developed by Coko, but is very much a community owned system in the ... read more
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