International Journal of Open Educational Resources Volume 2, Issue 1, Fall 2019/Winter 2020 | Page 137

Collaborative Partnerships between State Agencies and Institutions of Higher Education
a bridge from the readings to real world
examples.
Creating a textbook involves
planning design elements that help students
process content material in order
to gain knowledge. These elements are
particularly important when developing
open textbooks, which often lack
ancillary resources that may be found
in commercial publishing.
Project 2: Openly Licensing
& Including Multimedia
Auburn University at Montgomery’s
staff photographer, Frank
Williams, played an integral
part in the creation of the open textbook
by providing access to his digital
collection of photographs hosted on
SmugMug. The photos date back over
a decade and number in the thousands.
In return, he simply asked for attribution
for providing the team with permission
to use the photographs.
Culling a group of photos from
the larger archive, the design team developed
a collection of photographs on
Flickr, an online tool used to organize
and embed the media in Pressbooks.
Flickr contains built-in tools that allowed
the team to select all of the images
and license them using Creative Commons
Licensing. Attribution (CCBY),
the license chosen for the images, is a
license from Creative Commons that
“lets others distribute, remix, tweak,
and build upon your work” (Creative
Commons, n.d., p. 3). At the beginning
of each chapter, the team placed images
of students in a variety of settings
around Auburn University at Montgomery.
This added a level of engagement
and familiarity to the text for their
students.
Figure 2. The design team used images of Auburn University students for each chapter.
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