Over the past three years, the ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens) project has supported faculty across Massachusetts as they reimagined course materials to better serve their students…
Category: Open Education
A Parent’s Take on College Textbook Costs
This year has been momentous for my family and me, as our twin boys graduated high school and started college. These are exciting milestones for any family. For me, having..
A Year of Open Content: Reviewing the Pressbooks Books of the Month
Every month we highlight a public book from the Pressbooks community that is a great example of high quality, open content across a range of different subjects and use cases…
Transforming Education Through Collaborative Publishing: Four Groundbreaking Projects
In a recent webinar, experts from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand shared insights on four collaborative publishing projects that showcase how partnerships across disciplines, cultures and institutions can lead to..
Reports and Dashboards to Inspire Open Education Advocates
Working as part of an evolving field, open education advocates often find themselves fighting to solidify the future of their initiatives. They need concrete evidence to prove how their programs..
Pressbooks Community Favorites: 2022
It’s December. With the year’s end comes reflection: what have we accomplished during this latest orbit around the sun? What has been the impact of our work? At Pressbooks, we..
Our Favorite Pressbooks Books of 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to look back at a year gone by. One of our goals for the past year was to give publishers..
5 OER for STEM Education
STEM education is pivotal for solving some of the biggest challenges facing the world today. Despite this, students face many barriers to pursuing these fields. Open educational resources (OER) present an effective way to make STEM education more accessible to students.
Collaborative OER with Terry Greene and Dana Jamaleddine
Liberated Learners is a guide to prepare post-secondary students for almost anything academic life can throw at them. University life can be difficult to navigate at the best of times…
Student-Led OER to Inspire and Engage Your Class
The transition to online learning has brought with it a host of challenges for both instructors and students. I’ve heard many instructors lament Zoom classrooms, feeling like they’re teaching into..