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…
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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.
Interactive OER for Healthcare Students
Students in health-related fields face a difficult journey, studying more information than most people can reasonably absorb in a single semester. To make matters worse, traditional textbooks can be dry…
Interview with Language OER Author Dr. Adriana DÃaz
When offering examples of creatively designed open educational resources (OER), JUNTXS and its sequel + JUNTXS are usually near the top of the list. These are interactive textbooks for students…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
