James Lappeman’s open textbook journey

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James and his colleague Paul Egan received a grant from the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project in order to undertake production and publication of the “Marketing to South African Consumers” open textbook. This paper details content development and design, and workflow of the project. In addition to having the textbook openly available online in multiple formats to boost accessibility, the author felt it was also important to have a print version. The final, published Marketing to South African Consumers textbook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence and priced very affordably.

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OPEN ACCESS, DIGITIZATION, TEXTBOOKS, LICENSING, CASE STUDIES, EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION, DIGITAL INCLUSION, OPEN DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT, MARKETING, PUBLISHING, OD4D, OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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