Rebus Open Publishing Projects Certificate Facilitator

Badge awarded to

Apurva Ashok

Issued on 16 Jun 2026 by

The Rebus Foundation

The Rebus Open Publishing Projects Certificate (OPC) is a year-long professional development course that equips faculty, librarians, administrators, and managers with the tools they need to create high-quality, openly licensed publications. The program guides cross-institutional teams through the full open publishing process of a primary course material – from scoping and planning through writing, editing, production, and release. This extended, cohort-based program combines expert-led sessions, asynchronous project work, and ongoing 1:1 expert facilitator support across one year. The OPC guides participants through three structured phases, giving teams a clear and rigorous path to publication.

Achievement Type

Micro Credential

Issuer

The Rebus Foundation

contact@rebus.community

Founded in 2016, The Rebus Foundation is a Canadian Registered Charity and global non-profit organization dedicated to advancing open publishing, open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy, and joyful learning.

Criteria

Rebus Open Publishing Project Certificate Facilitators:

engage in individualized facilitation training,
establish meaningful connections with participants,
facilitate live sessions and provide frequent asynchronous feedback to participants.

In order to achieve the following program goals:

Apply project and team management skills to scope your open publishing project and sustain it through completion
Articulate your OER's story to strengthen your team's shared vision and communicate its value to broader audiences
Integrate universal design and accessibility into every stage of the publishing process, from project planning through release
Design an OER that aligns structure, pedagogy, and assessment to the resource's learning outcomes and the students they serve
Establish peer, accessibility, and classroom review processes that strengthen your OER and signal its quality to adopters and institutions
Steward your OER beyond publication through maintenance planning, adoption tracking, impact assessment, and strengthening institutional capacity for future open publishing

Additionally, they participate in a virtual community of practice with other facilitators to refine their teaching methods, strengthen their networks, and collaboratively improve the Rebus facilitator pathways program.