Brian Lindshield is associate professor in Human Nutrition at Kansas State University. He graduated from Kansas State with a B.S. in Human Nutrition and received a Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2008. Brian has been actively involved in advocating for open educational resources at K-State. He developed the Human Nutrition (HN 400) Flexbook (goo.gl/vOAnR) in 2010 and was a finalist for the 2012 Education-Portal.com People’s Choice Award for the Most Open Resource. A story about the flexbook was published in the Kansas City Star and picked up my many other newspapers across the nation in 2013. He is one of the co-PIs on the Open/Alternative Textbook Initiative.
