H2O Open Casebook

H2O is a way for you to create high-quality, freely available, online casebooks. Today we're sharing a new video introduction to the basics of H2O, and what it offers to students and faculty: vimeo.com/422850658

Learn more about H2O: an open casebook tool built and maintained by the Harvard Law School Library. vimeo.com/422850658 #AALS2022 #OER

Equal access to information has many facets, but a low price tag (free!) and open distribution online (with the ability to print at home!) goes a long way. Create casebooks that are free to use and distribute. Built and maintained @HarvardLIL @hlslib #AALS2022 #equality #OER

Freedom is cultivated when anyone can access learning & education. H2O allows professors to create free digital casebooks for their courses, license them openly, & be part of a community aiming to liberate legal textbooks! Built & maintained by @HarvardLIL @hlslib #AALS2022

Libraries: palaces to the people, serving the common good. @HarvardLIL works to extend that mission into the digital world. We've combine @caselawaccess & @opencasebook to allow law profs to create free digital casebooks for their students. Built & maintained @hlslib #AALS2022

Create free, open source, digital casebooks with Harvard Law Library’s opencasebook.org! By integrating @caselawaccess project’s 360 years of American caselaw we’ve made it easy to tailor a casebook to your specific course and give your students access for free. #AALS2022

H2O, a project out of @HarvardLIL, will now be sharing updates in LIL's newsletter, Lawvocado! Subscribe below for stories about our H2O community and more from law, technology, libraries.

As an experiment, used Fetch from @caselawaccess (case.law/fetch) to extract citations from NCAA v. Alston, issued today by SCOTUS, then used Quick Add from @opencasebook to build a reader. Now easy to read and annotate the cases SCOTUS cited. opencasebook.org/casebooks/3542…

The latest issue of the H2O newsletter is out! Featuring our new U.S. Code integration, and interviews with longtime H2O authors @cbavitz and @bjmquinn. Read and subscribe here: mailchi.mp/a4054a41b5b8/t…

Brian Quinn (@bjmquinn), a professor @BCLaw, teaches corporate law with H2O: "the reason I went to H2O was because I could use the platform to develop materials that really reflected my course." Read more and access his free and open casebook at about.opencasebook.org/blog/2021/05/1…

Did you miss our first H2O newsletter last week? Subscribe here to get the next one in your inbox 📩: opencasebook.org/subscribe. And catch up on the issue here: mailchi.mp/8c3f0f46daca/t….

Using H2O's 'remix' functionality, the professors were able to build their book using sections of existing casebooks from @JeannieSGersen and Tim Wu (@superwuster), while adding original content. Read more details in the full post. about.opencasebook.org/blog/2021/03/1…

Last year, professors Michelle Oberman, @WDavidBall, and Mike Flynn at @santaclaralaw used H2O to create an open, collaborative Criminal Law casebook with their students. Now, they are encouraging others to transition to open education resources for law: about.opencasebook.org/blog/2021/03/1…

@zittrain has created several other open reading lists and casebooks in H2O since then, including this one for a course on Governing Digital Technology that he's teaching this spring. Educators can use H2O to clone and customize it for their own courses. opencasebook.org/casebooks/2554

H2O author highlight 📕: @zittrain first created his open access Torts casebook in 2013, and has been able to update it regularly over the years as his teaching has evolved. The most recent version, from 2018, is open and available for adaptation. opencasebook.org/casebooks/461

A milestone! Over 100 law professors from 40 different law schools have published open access casebooks and course materials for free with H2O 🔓. See what folks are publishing and adapt a resource for your class this year: opencasebook.org/search/

@DanielMCoble @HarvardLIL Congratulations on your new casebook and thanks for the shoutout!

You can collaborate with students and colleagues to create casebooks, reading lists, and more using H2O (opencasebook.org). This new video guide shows how manage collaborators on your casebook: vimeo.com/463884497

Hello #OpenEd20! Join us Wednesday (11/11) at 11am EST for a talk about how open casebooks can change legal education using H2O (opencasebook.org) with Law, Access, and the Open Casebook: opened20.sched.com/event/fCpt

In H2O (opencasebook.org) you can annotate your casebooks by adding links and notes to text, highlighting text, and more. This video tutorial shows how to annotate your first online casebook, syllabus, or reading list in H2O: vimeo.com/292818922

The #OpenEd20 program is live! There are so many incredible sessions to attend, click on the link below to see which ones you would like to attend! openeducationconference.org/2020/program