Office Hours: Multimedia in Open Textbooks
Channel: Rebus Community
Date: 2020-04-03

The special guests at this month's session of the Rebus Community and Open Textbook Network Office Hours were Naomi Salmon (Instructional Consultant, University of Madison-Wisconsin), Chelsea Green (Associate Professor of Music, The American University in Cairo (AUC)), Nadine Aboulmagd (Senior Instructional Designer, Digital Education, The Center for Learning and Teaching, AUC), and Josie Gray (Advisor, Inclusive Design and OER Collections, BCcampus).

Even the oldest textbooks in existence used illumination to augment ideas, and many were designed to be interactive by leaving significant margins for students to take notes, annotate, and even doodle. Today, the ways in which we can engage students outside the written word are only growing. In this month’s Office Hours, our guests shared their experiences of creating open textbooks with audio, video, interactive activities and other media. We addressed technical questions, how to ensure accessibility for all students, and how to not let a fun new toy distract from the core learning objectives.

The audio transcript of this session is available on the Rebus Community website: https://about.rebus.community/2020/03/30/march-office-hours-multimedia-in-open-textbooks/

Looking for resources to help OER creators implement multimedia elements in their work? Keep an eye on the Rebus Community platform: https://www.rebus.community/t/office-hours-multimedia-in-open-textbooks/2586