Project Planning
Plan Your Adaptation or new Book
We have a recipe to help you plan.
The Ingredients
- Curators [creators of new work]
- Project Lead
- Librarian
- Instructional Designer
- Copyright Office
- Course Objectives
- OER to Customize [one or more]
- Schedule for Project
- Software – NSCC Pressbooks
- Distribution – NSCC Pressbooks
Three Phases
- Pre-Production
- Production
- Post-Production
Pre-Production
- Find your ingredients
- Define OER need and target audience
- Request or create a curated list of OER to evaluate for use
- Determine participants – recruit team and select project lead
- Plan
- Map course objectives to one or more OER
- Identify OER content to include; sections that need to be edited or replaced, and new content to add.
- See NSCC Open textbook adaption planning example.
- Consider UDL, structure of text, interactive content
- Define roles and timelines
- Decide who will be responsible for what.
- Assign tasks
- Refine responsibilities.
- Create project tracking tool to record tasks, responsibilities, and completion dates.
- Consider using the NSCC Tracking Template
Production
The production process is supported by the Copyright Office.
- Submit your Pressbooks project request
- Explain how the new book will differ from the original:
- selected and or remixed content
- new content to be added
- 2 planning forms required
- Explain how the new book will differ from the original:
- Training
- Training sessions are initiated with the submission of a Pressbooks project request.
- Pressbooks training must be completed for all project participants requiring editing privileges.
- Editing
- Pick an editing model.
- Multiple creators vs one project manager to centrally receive and integrate changes and updates.
- Add and update content.
- Follow NSCC Pressbooks creation guidelines to ensure UDL and accessibility requirements are met.
- Librarian Review
- Content checked for academic integrity and copyright compliance.
- Attribution statements reviewed and revised as required.
- Content Review
- Copyedit & proofing
- Note: Creators should not review their own work
- Peer Review
- Revise
- Make changes as required
Post-Production
- Add Supporting Content
- Revise existing (or create) test banks, slide decks, study, and self- guided reading questions
- Links
- Confirm links and embedded content
- Add internal hyperlinks if required. e.g. Index, glossary
- Accessibility Review.
- Copyright Office reviews to confirm content meets accessibility standards.
- Changes made if required
- Metadata and ISBNs
- Copyright Office assigns metadata tags, ISBNs and updates bibliographic information.
- Publish
- Declare project complete and release to audience
- Copyright Office ensures web book and downloadable files are publicly available.
- Print on Demand(POD) option created
- Textbook embed box made available to use for Brightspace courses.