“The Ministry of Advanced Education, assisted by BCcampus, is contributing to the development of an open future for educational resources and teaching practices by providing funding to develop open textbooks. To that end, we are pleased to announce the third phase of the B.C. Open Textbook Program – a call for proposals to create new open textbooks.
The Ministry of Advanced Education funds the B.C. Open Textbook Program, and BCcampus is tasked with managing it. The goal is to provide flexible and affordable access to higher education resources in B.C. by making available 40 openly licensed textbooks in the first and second year most highly enrolled undergraduate subject areas. These texts will be available for selection by B.C. faculty, and digital versions of the texts will be free of charge to students. Print copies will also be available at a moderate cost.”
Phase 3: “looking for instructors to create new open textbooks from scratch in areas eligible for funding. These new texts will be produced using only new materials or appropriate openly licensed content. No copyrighted third-party materials will be used.”
Deadline for Proposals: Feb. 28, 2014
Deadline for Completed Projects: Sept. 5, 2014
Download a PDF of this Call for Proposals (includes all resources)
For information on criteria for successful proposal, application process, etc. see: http://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/open-textbooks-call-for-proposals-phase-3/
