Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: Open Educational Resources

  • Thoughts on Licensing: Why I Prefer CC-BY Licenses

    Thoughts on Licensing: Why I Prefer CC-BY Licenses

    Robin DeRosa recently posted an open question about CC licensing on Twitter that got me thinking: Thinking of changing my @creativecommons default license from CCBY to CCBYNC. I get that CCBY is the more open technically, but I'm thinking here about my vision for open (in particular as it relates to public higher ed), and…

  • Getting Started with Pressbooks: A guide for Higher Education use cases

    For the past few years, I’ve been helping faculty and other subject experts at UW-Madison develop and publish openly licensed textbooks and other learning activities using Pressbooks, free and openly licensed software which was originally conceived by Hugh McGuire as a way to extend WordPress in order to publish electronic books. I began this work…

  • Adding Interactivity to Web Annotation

    Adding Interactivity to Web Annotation

    For the past few years, I’ve been working to improve how content experts at my university can write, develop, and publish open educational resources. Early in 2016, I published my own set of core principles for an authoring & publishing tool. I first began developing these principles in the summer of 2015, and after comparing…

  • 2016: The Year in OER at UW-Madison

    2016: The Year in OER at UW-Madison

    2016: The Year in OER at UW-Madison OER STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK On an institutional level, the big news at UW-Madison in 2016 was the publication of the Open Education Resources (OER) page and strategic framework (pdf) on the Educational Innovation (EI) website at the beginning of the Fall 2016 semester (full disclosure: I was a co-author…