A Testbank Sprint for Fundamentals of Business

During two days in January 2019, nine business faculty from seven institutions and three states (VA, NC, OH) worked together to develop a testbank for the open textbook, Fundamentals of Business. This library-planned and facilitated work sprint was designed as a productive, capacity-building, and network-enriching event for college and university instructors who use the open textbook Fundamentals of Business in introductory-level business courses. It was also held to explore and build capacity among librarians regarding the use of work sprint methods as a method for creation of scholarly works, encouraging multi-institutional collaboration, and creating opportunities for in-situ faculty (and librarian) development.

This seven-minute lightning talk presents the rationale, planning process, collaborative model, schedule, resources used, and outcomes of the testbank sprint.

The test bank for Fundamentals of Business is available by request at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93404.

Note: Fundamentals of Business is an open educational resource (OER) freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84848 (2018) and http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 (2016). Editable formats are also available. Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting the text should indicate their interest at: http://bit.ly/business-interest.