Five lessons learned at the Open Textbooks Summit 2014 | BCcampus

"It has been a fantastic year for Open Textbooks. Case in point: last year we had 30 people at the Open Textbooks Summit. This year we had 130. Key themes picked up this year were: sharing is what Open Textbooks and OER are all about, and no one has to do it alone ... We live-streamed and live-blogged  the first day of the two-day conference because that’s when all the presentations and keynotes happened ... Through it all, several lessons emerged.  1. 'Librarians like to search for things. Real people like to FIND them.' – Librarians have a crucial role to play ... 2. 'It’s all about the students' – Students have more of an impact than they might think ... 3. 'The ideal textbook does not exist' – Open Textbooks means control is given back to instructors ... 4. 'OER is like being given a puppy' – Taking control of educational content takes commitment .. 5.  'Come on in, the water’s warm!' – We need a bigger developer community around the technology of open source publishing ..."