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The Rebus Foundation is an education non-profit that creates liberatory futures through open publishing, pedagogy, and joyful learning.

The Rebus Foundation builds new models and technology for open book publishing and reading on the web

05/26/2026

Last month, we shared a quick recap of the Rebus Luminary Fellowship summit on Granville Island. 🕯️ Since then, we've had time to sit with the experience, including a thoughtful learning memo from our partners at the Leadership Learning Community and feedback from the fellows themselves.

Postsecondary education leaders are carrying a lot right now. Across the cohort's time together, fellows came to a shared realization: they don't have to carry it alone. They practiced naming the systemic pressures shaping their work, holding boundaries with clarity, and treating joy and rest as leadership practices rather than rewards earned at the end of a long week.

💬 "About a week after I returned, I felt a true 'shift' in myself. I am starting to see my future self in a different, yet sustainable and meaningful space." – 2026 Luminary Fellow

The image below captured during the summit maps how this work radiates outward from self, to team, to community. It's a fitting picture of what the fellowship sets in motion: change that starts within ripples forward.

The formal program may have wrapped, but the ripples are just beginning. 🌊 Over the coming months, we'll publish reflections from fellows, told in their own voices and formats. We hope to offer the fellowship again in the future!

05/21/2026

🌊 A Legacy of Ripple Effects: Our May 2026 Newsletter is here!

After ten years of ripples, they're still spreading. This month, we're celebrating the ways our community's work travels far beyond where it starts: Luminary Fellows carrying new leadership practices into their communities, an interactive workshop on building cultures of openness, an openly licensed ePortfolio template from Amber Hoye, and an invitation to share your own Rebus story as we mark a decade together.

Inside this issue:
💬 An invitation to share your Rebus journey for our 10th anniversary
🕯️ A sneak peek at what our inaugural Luminary Fellows are carrying forward
🎤 A preview of Kaitlin Schilling and Victoria Brame's workshop at Open Horizons 2026
📚 A celebration of Amber Hoye's latest article in the AePR ePortfolio Review
📣 Calls for peer reviewers, proposals, nominations, and more
📅 Upcoming events from the Colorado OER Conference, Library Publishing Forum, and beyond

We're proud to keep building alongside this community. Read, share, and celebrate with us!

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05/14/2026

Ten years. Hundreds of collaborators. Countless small shifts. 🌊

Over the past decade, Rebus has grown from a small idea into a community working on open books, innovative pedagogy, interactive learning tools, and new models for publishing. But what's shaped us most isn't the projects or platforms. It's the people, connections, conversations, and quiet moments where something clicked.

As we mark our 10th anniversary, we want to hear how Rebus showed up in your world...

💬 How did you first connect with us? A workshop, a collaboration, a chance meeting at a conference? What struck you most about working together? What stuck with you? What's shifted between then and now?

Whether you've been part of this community from the beginning or you're just finding your way here, your voice helps us understand the impact of this work and where we might go next.

Share your Story:
✍️ https://buff.ly/WmbKfSh

It takes only a few short minutes. Anonymous is fine. A few words are great. A story is wonderful. Thank you for ten years of ripples! 🎂

05/07/2026

In April, Kaitlin Schilling, Rebus Programs and Community Manager, delivered the closing keynote at the Texas Woman's University Open Education Practices Conference. 🎉

Her talk, "Beyond the Textbook: Building a Kinder, More Open World," argued that open education is bigger than the resources we create.

The shift, Kaitlin argued, is from open resources to open practices: assignments that create something of lasting value beyond the grade, courses where students have genuine agency over their learning, and partnerships that treat students as collaborators rather than recipients. She pushed the conversation outside the classroom entirely, exploring how openly licensed materials can serve communities – voter guides, tenant rights resources, workforce tools – long after a semester ends.

Kaitlin closed the conference with an invitation for attendees to identify one concrete thing they'd do when they left the room as a small step toward making openness a way of being. Let us know what you’re thinking in the comments below! 👇

A big thank you to TWU and everyone who joined us for the conversation!

Watch the Keynote:
🎬 https://buff.ly/vOSR6XU

Want Kaitlin or other members of the Rebus team to speak at your event? Get in touch!
📩 [email protected]

04/30/2026

At the start of the year, Rebus and the DOERS Collaborative hosted three focus groups with nearly 50 educators and industry leaders to explore how open educational resources can better prepare students for careers and where gaps remain. 🎓

Participants pointed to soft skills as the most persistent gap: communication, critical thinking, digital literacy, and the ability to translate hands-on experience into the language of a job application. They named real barriers – textbook costs, the digital divide, and the time required to build good materials without institutional support – but also promising models like service learning and industry advisory boards that keep curriculum aligned with real workforce needs. 💡

Our Bridging the Gap: OER & Workforce Focus Group Learning Memo synthesizes what we heard across all three sessions and serves as the foundation for a practical, openly licensed playbook for educators, employers, and workforce developers coming later this year. 📖

Read the Learning Memo:
📝 https://buff.ly/Ksvc3dg

04/23/2026

Ten Years in the Making: Our April 2026 Newsletter is here! 🎂

A decade ago, The Rebus Foundation was founded with a mission to foster the development of open publishing communities. The organization you see today is very much the product of the people behind it – the collaborators, facilitators, learners, and leaders who have helped shape what Rebus is and what it can be. We have a full year of anniversary celebrations ahead, and we hope you'll join us as we reflect, look ahead, and celebrate.

For now, we're rewinding through a month full of momentum: our Luminary Fellows gathered in Vancouver for their culminating summit, Kaitlin Schilling delivered a keynote on open practices, we released a learning memo on OER and workforce development with DOERS, and registration for Summer 2026 certificate programs opened.

Inside this Issue:
🕯️ Gratitude and reflections from the inaugural Luminary Fellowship summit on Granville Island
🎓 Registration for Summer 2026 SMC and OPC cohorts
🎥 A recap of our April info session on the Rebus Leadership Learning Pathways
📄 Takeaways from our OER and workforce development focus groups with DOERS
🎤 Reflections on Kaitlin Schilling's keynote at TWU
📣 Calls for research fellows, peer reviewers, papers, and more
📅 Upcoming events from CCCOER, OEN, ISKME, and the open education community

Whether this is your first or tenth year with Rebus, we invite you to read, share, and celebrate this milestone with us.

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04/16/2026

Registration for the Summer 2026 cohort of our Supplemental Materials Development Certificate (SMC) closes April 30!

Over six collaborative weeks (May 18-June 30), educators build open, student-centered course materials (interactive self-checks, authentic assessments, in-class activities, and more) with hands-on support from an expert facilitator and a community of peers. Participants walk away with at least one ready-to-use artifact and a microcredential recognizing their work. 📝

Subsidized fees and full scholarships are available through generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Just introduce yourself via email and share a bit about your interest in joining!

✅ Secure Your Spot by April 30:
https://buff.ly/xoZUaRQ
✉️ Email: [email protected]

04/09/2026

At Rebus, some of our most meaningful work happens in the spaces between programs – in the working groups and communities of practice where practitioners come together to think collectively about what's working, what's needed, and what's next. These conversations keep us connected to the broader movement and grounded in the challenges and possibilities that educators are navigating around the world. 🌎

This past month, we participated in meetings with the DOERS3 Advancing OER for All Working Group and Innovation Working Group, Canada Community of Practice, Open 2030 Working Group, BC Open Education Community, Network of Open Organizations, Open Education Association Outreach Working Group, and our own Luminary Fellows. Across these spaces, common threads continue to emerge: how to ensure fairness in OER policy and practice, how to sustain open initiatives through collaboration, and how to align the work of open education with goals for learning that is truly accessible to all.

We're also proud to be part of ongoing conversations with the Canadian Coalition for Affordable Learning and grantee learning communities, groups that deepen our understanding of the landscape and inform how we show up for the community. The insights we gain in these spaces reaffirm our goals, shape our programs, sharpen our thinking, and remind us that no single organization moves this work forward alone. 🤝

04/07/2026

A note from Rebus' Executive Director, Apurva Ashok:

Happy 10 Years of Rebus! Rebus was incorporated as a non-profit organization on this day, 10 years ago, with a mission to "foster the development of communities of Open Textbook, Open Access, and Open Webbook creators and users" amongst other open publishing charges. Thank you Hugh and Boris for your vision and these foundations! 🎉

The last decade of Rebus has been experimental, winding, and joyful: we've tried new projects, moved offices, changed teams, welcomed a new Board, grown communities, and in many ways, transformed lives. This has been no small feat: the organization you see today is very much the product of the people behind it. I still see the same spirit that was championed when I joined the organization, nearly a year after it was founded, ring true today. I hope you all can witness it, too!

I've collected a few different pictures from the last decade to look back on where we started, and how far we've come. Happy browsing 🙂

Reaching a milestone anniversary always begets the question: what next? What does the next decade for Rebus look like? Perhaps different as we grapple with new education technology, new models and systems, new institutional and industry priorities, new facilitators, and new activities as we weave this all together. And yet, in many ways, I suspect it will stay the same: welcoming new collaborators; embarking on brave and exciting projects; holding an openness to adapt; prioritizing human-first design, and organizational cultures of care, support, encouragement, and joy. I hope you will all join me for the ride!

We have a full year of 10 year anniversary events coming up ahead, so stay tuned to keep reflecting, celebrating, and looking back & ahead with us!

03/30/2026

We're proud to share that Kaitlin Schilling, Rebus Programs and Community Manager, will deliver the closing keynote at the third annual TWU Open Educational Practices Virtual Conference on April 2!

This year's theme, Learning without Barriers: Empowering Students through OEP/OER, sets the stage for Kaitlin's keynote, which explores what happens when we expand our understanding of open education beyond the textbook and classroom to imagine the wider ripple effects that open practices can have in our communities and lives.

The conference will be held from 9:00am-4:30pm CT with Kaitlin's closing keynote scheduled for 3:30pm CT. Attendance is free, and space is limited to the first 250 registrants. Secure your spot now!

Learn More & Register:
🔗 https://buff.ly/8n6Wlgv

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