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Thursday, May 28 • 11:15 - 11:45
You created a textbook in how many days???!?

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In June of 2014, 5 Geography faculty from 4 post-secondary institutions in British Columbia converged at UBC to create a first year regional Geography textbook in just 4 days. Supported by a librarian, instructional designer, illustrator, programmer, and a Book Sprint facilitator, we ended the four day book sprint with an open textbook created completely from scratch. Find out how we did it and what we learned by doing it.
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Arthur "Gill" Green

Arthur “Gill” Green is a professor in the Department of Geography, Earth, and Environmental Science at Okanagan College. He has taught courses in environmental management, cartography, food systems, spatial statistics, and human geography at McGill University, the Univiersity... Read More →
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Clint Lalonde

Director, Open Education, BCcampus
Clint is an educational technologist and advocate for the use of open educational resources and open education practices in higher education. Clint has worked in the British Columbia post-secondary system for 25 years and is currently the Director of Open Education for BCcampus... Read More →
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Barbara Ruhling

Barbara Rühling is a Book Sprint facilitator, cultural anthropologist and filmmaker based in Berlin, Germany. She was trained by Book Sprint founder Adam Hyde in 2013 and has facilitated almost 20 Book Sprints since, from textbooks to government policies and fiction, including the... Read More →

Thursday May 28, 2015 11:15 - 11:45 PDT
Fletcher Theatre SFU Harbour Centre
  Breakout Session

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