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Students today expect more than static, text-heavy materials. With shorter attention spans and a preference for engaging, dynamic content, traditional textbooks often fall short. To keep learners actively involved, educators must embrace interactive learning materials that go beyond simple digital distribution.  By integrating multimedia, quizzes, simulations, and immediate feedback, interactive materials transform learning from passive…

Open Education Week 2025 at Pressbooks Open Education Week is a global event organized by Open Education Global to highlight the power of open education, its benefits, and its impact on learning worldwide.  Pressbooks is excited to host three dynamic sessions exploring interactive learning, OER adoption, and scaling institutional open publishing programs. Join Us for…

“Any book or knowledge source remains relevant longer when it’s dynamic, or embracing of continuous change.” These words appear in the introduction of the most recent edition of Humans R Social Media, a cutting edge, open access “living book” on new media penned by information scholar Diana Daly and several contributors, including her students. Presenting a…

Join Us for Open Education Week We’re excited to announce the sessions that Pressbooks will be running during Open Education Week. Open Education Week is a global event run by Open Education Global to raise awareness of open education, its benefits, and its impact. This year there are over 120 events, and Pressbooks is excited…

Whether you’re getting started with a new project or leading a mature open education initiative, the questions of how to demonstrate effectiveness, measure impact, and quantify value are always relevant.

>>> Download the Open Education Reference Guide Supporting and Sharing the Open Education Journey At Pressbooks, we’re proud to support people and organizations at all levels of maturity in their open education initiatives, from publishing their first book to launching and growing substantial digital libraries of interactive books.  One of the defining traits of the…

One of the most exciting things about the open education movement today is also at times one of the most maddening things: it’s still growing up.  Although Wikipedia dates the origins of open education back to the open access work of John Amos Comenius (circa 1600), practically speaking this is a young, dynamic field. The…

Join our webinar as a panel of open education experts dive into the critical questions surrounding how to track and report on the impact of open education initiatives.

It’s been an exciting year for Pressbooks users. In 2023 alone, we’ve had nearly 9,000 creators from across 500+ institutions produce content that has reached 64 million visitors. What are those 64 million visitors looking at? Great question! The short answer is: free, open access textbooks for a variety of college-level subjects. This year’s most-visited…

We’ve reached that time of year where we look back on everything we achieved within the past 12 months: what did we accomplish, what did we learn, what impact did we make. And there are a lot of ways to measure impact in the Pressbooks community. Our users have had a busy 2023 and we…