Supporting the Emerging Instructional Designer: Open Textbooks for Students and Early Career Professionals

• In Event: RTD- Models of Open Education

Short Description

In this session we reveal the final versions of three new textbooks for courses in our field: Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology (2nd edition), Becoming a Learning and Instructional Design Technology Professional, and Failing Forward: Stories of Academic Rejection (and Success). These books derive from the 2018 first edition of the Foundations textbook. This award-winning textbook has received 379,000 views and 215,100 downloads, and saved students an estimated $6 million.

Authors

• Contributor: Rick West, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Heather Leary, Brigham Young University

• Contributor: Rebecca Nissen, Brigham Young University