Getting started with open educational resources (OER) can be daunting. With so much material on the subject, newcomers may not know where to look for guidance. We recently asked the..

Getting started with open educational resources (OER) can be daunting. With so much material on the subject, newcomers may not know where to look for guidance. We recently asked the..
Last week, we lost someone near and dear in the Pressbooks universe: Florence Piron (EN / FR). Florence, a wonderful and generous person, was a professor at Université de Laval..
This post is a joint announcement with the folks from BCcampus. Clint Lalonde, open education project manager for BCcampus, writes, “Discoverability of open textbooks has always been a challenge, and..
Open education can be used as a tool for combating anti-Black racism. It contributes significantly to a more equitable education system which has direct impact on black and brown communities…
We chose books that caught our eyes in 2020 With the introduction of Pressbooks Directory, Pressbooks users (including the Pressbooks staff) have been discovering OER faster and with more enthusiasm..
Enabling the 5Rs with a powerful tool for searching and sharing books When Pressbooks educational product manager Steel Wagstaff heard from a long time client, “I wish there was a..
Many of you who are active in the OER community will already know Rajiv Jhangiani’s name. Besides being the co-editor of a well-regarded 2017 book on open education, “Open: The..
Staff at the Teaching and Learning Centre and Distance Education units at the University of Saskatchewan are steadily building their OER program. They started with the adoption and adaptation of..
It was while searching for a tool to help an American Government professor adapt an open textbook that James Paradiso, an instructional designer at University of Central Florida, discovered his..
The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples, edited by Kristi Jensen and Shane Nackerud, is one of the latest books to..