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Why Skills Are Becoming the New Measure of Workforce Readiness
In 2022, Delaware’s Department of Human Resources went through its Family Service Specialist job postings and replaced the bachelor’s degree requirement with a line about relevant work experience. Applications went up 575 per cent. That number says less about the degree requirement than about who was already there: people doing adjacent work, capable of the job, invisible to the hiring process because the posting was…
Our Favorite Pressbooks Books of 2021
In 2020, looking for a little joy in a very tough year, we decided to celebrate the incredible work of the open education community by having the whole Pressbooks team…
Could Pressbooks support ebook creation for deaf education?
Dr. Joanne Weber to present her findings from an evaluation of Pressbooks as a platform for creating ebooks that are accessible to deaf learners
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…