Collaborative Methodologies for Writing Open Educational Textbooks: a State-of art Review,

ANA CASALI; ANTONIO SILVA SPROCK; CARLOS HENRIQUE ALVES; CLAUDIA DECO; ISMAR FRANGO SILVEIRA; ET AL.

Rio de Janeiro

Simposio; Proceedings del I Workshop Recursos Educacionais Abertos: Questões para globalização e localização y II International Symposium on OER: Issues for globalization and localization,CBIE; 2012

CBIE

The importance of collaborative electronic textbooks in the contextof Open Educational Resources has been growing worldwide. This paperpresents an state-of-the-art analysis of collaborative methodologies necessaryfor the shared creation of collaborative books, with a more specific attentiongiven to open academic textbooks. This paper explore the academic literatureof general concept of collaboration to more specific task of collaborativewriting and example of successful initiatives of open textbooks around theworld. The main conclusion of this study is that the any methodology for suchcreation should depend heavily on the conformation and cultural context ofthe writing group.