Steering through North American Archaeology: Reflections on the Effectiveness of an Open Textbook Steering Committee

Summary

As an open educational resource, this textbook has been designed to incorporate the perspectives and expertise of a variety of different scholars and stakeholders from across North America. Early in the process, a ‘steering committee’ was established to try and ensure balanced coverage, maintain a relatively consistent voice, and iron out any difficulties that may arise. The steering committee has also been responsible for some of the small but important details like hunting down copyrights, identifying reviewers, and initial editing. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the steering committee at this point, considering our successes, our disappointments, and our future challenges. We share our experiences in the hope that this discussion will be useful to others who are currently engaged in (or thinking about introducing) a similar project and in order to contribute to a larger conversation about the usefulness of open educational resources in archaeology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 21001