Crowdsourcing the (Un)Textbook: Rethinking and Future Thinking the Role of the Textbook in Open Pedagogy

In this paper, we adopt a critical lens to investigate educators' understanding of both traditional and alternative textbooks examine how open pedagogy may call for rethinking they are used in pedagogical setting. Within the context pedagogy, including textbooks, conducted workshops that involved faculty, instructional designers, educational developers, academic administrators during three conferences 2019: OER19 Conference held Galway, Ireland; Cascadia Open Education Summit Vancouver, British Columbia; Educational Technology Users Group Kamloops, Columbia. Based on data collected these interactive workshops, combined with personal reflections from project instigators, discuss emerging issues tensions use as agents/artefacts teaching learning, their relation pedagogy. Specifically, consider what aspects design textbook be rethought increasingly ubiquitous access knowledge licensing content become more widely available. This is achieved by prompting educators describe best worst features format reflect might imagine potential future resource support