Items8The creator’s order
  1. 1Richard BaraniukRichard BaraniukBaraniuk founded Connexions at Rice as a way to assemble and share teaching material online. That work grew into OpenStax’s publication of free, openly licensed textbooks. Start with him to see how a project for sharing pieces of a course can lead to full books that instructors can assign and adapt.0
  2. 2Hal AbelsonHal AbelsonBorn Apr 26, 1947Abelson served on the faculty committee that proposed OpenCourseWare at MIT. The proposal put syllabuses, assignments, and other course materials within reach of readers outside the university. MIT's reuse terms let instructors adapt much of that material for noncommercial teaching under the same…0
  3. 3David WileyDavid WileyWiley helped instructors use and adapt open materials through Lumen Learning. His course design framework makes a practical distinction between a resource you can read for free and one you can revise and share. A teacher who needs to rearrange lessons for a different class can use that distinction…0
  4. 4Mark HornerMark HornerHorner helped build Siyavula, whose open math and science textbooks were developed with teachers, academics, and other contributors. The books are aligned to school curricula and offered in formats that include web and print. Siyavula offers some unbranded editions under Creative Commons…0
  5. 5Carl WiemanCarl WiemanBorn Mar 26, 1951Wieman founded PhET at the University of Colorado Boulder. Its simulations give a class something to test by changing a variable and observing what follows. Try a PhET lesson for an example of open educational work built around an interactive model. The regular web simulations have a Creative…0
  6. 6Bill McCallumBill McCallumMcCallum was the lead author of the Illustrative Mathematics middle-school curriculum published by Open Up Resources under Creative Commons Attribution. Lessons give teachers tasks and routines for a classroom organized around solving problems. The materials let a teacher see how that approach…0
  7. 7Rajiv JhangianiRajiv JhangianiJhangiani adapted Paul C. Price’s Research Methods in Psychology for Canadian students, then coauthored the second Canadian edition with I-Chant Chiang. The edition revised examples and materials to reflect the Canadian context, including the ethics of research involving people. It shows how an…0
  8. 8Hugh McGuireHugh McGuireMcGuire founded Pressbooks, a publishing platform used by colleges and other groups to make open textbooks. Its books can be read online, and instructors can use it to adapt eligible materials. Pressbooks made the editing and publishing process part of the work of getting an open textbook into a…0