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7 Tips for Remediating Content Ahead of the April 2026 Accessibility Deadline
As institutions prepare for the April 2026 accessibility deadline, many faculty and staff are grappling with how to efficiently remediate course content. In a recent webinar, “Navigating the 2026 Accessibility Requirements: Higher Ed Strategies and Approaches”, accessibility experts shared practical strategies for tackling this complex task. This post distills seven actionable tips—from prioritizing high-enrollment courses to leveraging accessibility checkers and working collaboratively—that can help faculty… Continue Reading 7 Tips for Remediating Content Ahead of the April 2026 Accessibility Deadline
Evaluating OER with Monica Brown
Open Educational Resources (OER) provide many benefits to students, instructors, and post-secondary institutions. For the instructors and librarians just getting started, however, the sheer volume of content to choose from… Continue Reading Evaluating OER with Monica Brown
Language Learning and Interactive OER
For language teachers, open educational resources (OER) provide an opportunity to create, adapt, or adopt immersive content that keeps learners engaged and accommodates a variety of learning styles. Pressbooks Directory… Continue Reading Language Learning and Interactive OER
Introducing Pressbooks Collections
The purpose of these collections is to showcase the best of OER. These are resources that we think are really great and may be helpful to anyone interested in the theme. Continue Reading Introducing Pressbooks Collections
OER in High Enrollment Healthcare Courses
Health sciences and allied fields are ever-growing, with more students enrolling each year. To meet the demand, many universities offer high enrollment and online courses for 200+ students at a… Continue Reading OER in High Enrollment Healthcare Courses
How to Onboard Humans
Pressbooks COO Başak Büyükçelen shares the onboarding process she designed for getting new employees up to speed and making them feel welcome. Continue Reading How to Onboard Humans
5 Resources for Better Web Accessibility
For much of the world, the web has transformed daily life. How we live, work, communicate, manage our finances, and order dinner looks different than it did even a decade… Continue Reading 5 Resources for Better Web Accessibility
Hugh McGuire on the Question Concerning EdTech
Our CEO and founder Hugh McGuire thinks a lot about creativity, humans, and technology—how they intersect, how they challenge each other, how they lift each other up. Recently, Hugh published… Continue Reading Hugh McGuire on the Question Concerning EdTech
Five OER for Nursing Students
In honor of the healthcare workers who have been working tirelessly throughout the pandemic, and in light of the recent boom in the field of nursing, we’ve chosen to highlight five textbooks for nursing education. Continue Reading Five OER for Nursing Students
A Crowdsourced Introduction to OER
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… Continue Reading A Crowdsourced Introduction to OER