In a partnership founded in a shared commitment to open, inclusive education, the Moodle US Learning Design team worked with UNESCO’s Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) to build a Digital Competencies for Literacy Educators course that is being distributed to Literacy Educators around the world. In this session, the presenters will demonstrate how they worked together to build this course to bridge the digital divide by using core Moodle tools such as Lesson and Database, as well as a mobile-first design philosophy.

Open Technical Communication

Kennesaw State University (GA, United States)

Open Technical Communication is a freely available, open-sourced technical communication textbook developed under a Round 3 Textbook Transformation Grant and updated through several follow-up grants in later rounds of grants offered by Affordable Learning Georgia. It is a remix of the open-sourced Online Technical Communication textbook by David McMurrey, and it has been known under its original title, Sexy Technical Communication as well as its current title: Open Technical Communication (Open TC). 

Open TC has been through many rounds of continuous improvement over the years. What began as a rather amateur design and title from a group of first-time OER-developers has evolved over the years into a professionally designed, accessible, and interactive open textbook that has been adopted by faculty all over the United States and in several other countries. This is an up-and-coming, tactically developed open textbook that is taking the field of technical and professional communication by storm.