A Book Sprint on Human-Robot Interaction in Education
Robotics in Education, written in a Book Sprint, has just been translated and published by Hanser Verlag.
All Posts
-
-
Making data count
We were thrilled to hear that the book resulting from a Book Sprint we produced last November, Open Data Metrics, already had 2,242 views and 1,182 downloads in January! Daniela Lowenberg from the University of California, said: It’s certainly made ... read more
-
IISD Book Sprint: Modelling for sustainable development
Last June a group of Book Sprinters in Montreux, Switzerland, enjoyed the overwhelming views of Lake Leman: one of the largest lakes in Western Europe and source of inspiration for many well-known writers such as Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Rousseau ... read more
-
OER Textbook Sprints: English Composition
The textbook English Composition was produced in one of two OER Textbook Sprints at the University of Hawai’i last May, following the Sprint for a textbook in Microeconomics. This OER textbook has ... read more
-
OER Textbook Sprints: Microeconomics
Since the launch of the Sprint Lab in 2019, we have experimented to apply the Book Sprints method to different formats, specifically for educational materials: Both writing new textbooks, and updating, improving and expanding existing open educational resources. We share ... read more
-
Online course creation experimentation in the Sprint Lab
Together with our clients Free Press Unlimited and Greenhost, we were interested in trying out how we were interested in trying out how we could produce an online course at Book Sprints. The topic of the course? How to bypass internet censorship in ... read more
-
Cambridge University Press published Human-Robot Interaction book
As we recently concluded a Book Sprint at the United Arab Emirates University on the topic of robotics in education, we look back on the first Book Sprint on robotics that we did. In 2018, some of the same participants ... read more
-
Inside the Editoria Community
Book Sprints operations manager and facilitator trainee Karina Piersig recently travelled to Chicago, Illinois to attend the Editoria Community Meeting. Book Sprints rely on Editoria as the technological infrastructure upon which our facilitators and Book Sprints participants collaborate to author, ... read more
-
Our pledge to become a greener organisation in 2020
This is the first of a series of posts planned to shed light on the many ways Book Sprints will explore becoming a greener organisation. While we are still in the planning stages, Book Sprints has donated funding to the ... read more
-
#Shelfies are not enough: Reader behavior keeps print alive in the digital age
According to the Association of American Publishers’ annual report, covering all kinds of trade and educational books, the total US books market was worth $26 billion in revenue in 2018. What’s surprising about this figure is the low percentage of ... read more