This textbook was developed in the online mentoring program Open Education for a Better World (OE4BW), which supports the development and implementation of open educational resources on topics with social impact according to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). When writing this book, I received a lot of help from prof. Robin DeRosa. Her advice on how to create materials with open access led me to search for solutions on how to arrange the textbook in such way that it could be used as an open access book. Her engagement in open education is inspiring and opened up in me a new, different way of looking at education as such. Similarly, I received encouragement from prof. Naomi Wahls, who is the European Hub Coordinator. That made my work easier as well.
My gratitude also goes to prof. Tanja Urbančič from the University of Nova Gorica, as she is one of the people who is most intensely involved in and responsible for the success of the OE4BW program. She introduced the program to me and encouraged me to apply for it. Moreover, what I found very useful were also the webminars, organized throughout the course of the project by the OE4BW.
My work is profoundly tied into the activities of the work group Women Writers in History, which is part of the Pan-European network DARIAH. Dr. Amelia Sanz, dr. Suzan van Dijk and dr. Marie Nedregotten Sorbo played an important part as consultants when I was writing the book.
I would also like to thank dr. Leonora Flis for translation and for her close reading of the materials, which resulted in, for me, an important exchange of opinions.
When writing the textbook, which was in fact during the CORONA lockdown, I used parts of the book also as material for flipped learning at my European Women Writers course (part of the Master’s program in Slovene Studies). The comments that I got from the students Dominika Prijatelj and Lara Vončina were very important to me when editing this textbook.
I am very grateful to my reviewers, Emer. prof. dr. Neva Šlibar and Prof. dr. Biljana Dojčinović for their suggestions on how to make this textbook better.
