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Why We’re Writing About Skills, Badges, and Trust This Fall
On our blog we usually write about what goes into an open textbook: the licensing, the teaching methods, the people who write and revise a chapter together. Over the next few months, we’re asking a related question we don’t cover as often. Once someone learns something, in a classroom or somewhere else, how does anyone outside that room find out? And how do they know…
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…
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…
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…
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….
Our Favorite Books of 2020
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…
Introducing Pressbooks Directory
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…
Supercharged OER at Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Kwantlen Polytechnic University was the first Canadian institution to launch a zero-textbook-cost program. To support its growing open education efforts, KPU adopted Pressbooks to help faculty create and share custom…
USask’s OER Program Expands from Adaptation into Ancillary Resources
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…
Pressbooks is Backbone for Nascent OER Efforts at University of Central Florida
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…