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Supporting Role-Play-Based Learning in Pressbooks
When students step into roles (doctors diagnosing patients, employees negotiating a pay raise) they gain more than just knowledge. They practice decision-making, confidence-building, and communication in ways that traditional lectures can’t replicate. That’s the power of role play-based learning: immersive, experiential, and, quite often, fun. This post highlights two innovative examples of role play resources built and shared using Pressbooks: Diagnosis: A Medical Education Game,… Continue Reading Supporting Role-Play-Based Learning in Pressbooks
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
Florence Piron, Pioneer of Open Publishing in Francophonie
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… Continue Reading Florence Piron, Pioneer of Open Publishing in Francophonie
BCcampus OER is Now Discoverable in Pressbooks Directory
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… Continue Reading BCcampus OER is Now Discoverable in Pressbooks Directory
Excellent OER to Celebrate During Black History Month and Beyond
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.… Continue Reading Excellent OER to Celebrate During Black History Month and Beyond