Lessons Learned: Writing My Own Textbook Using OER

I teach horticulture. For many of my classes there either is not a textbook, or if there is it may be old or have many irrelevant parts. But more commonly the problem is that they are written for academic college courses, not hands-on classes for students who may have never been successful in high school. For this reason I used passages from books, trade magazine articles, and university bulletins to put together a course-book for my Greenhouse and Nursery Management class. I'll share what I did, how I did it, how the students responded, and what I'll change.