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 choose their favorite PB creations of the year. It was such a fulfilling experience—marveling at all the incredible contributions to education that we’ve played a…
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 can feel overwhelming. The good news is that getting started with OER can be easier than you may think. Monica Brown, the assistant program manager…
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.
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 an article in which he applies these themes to education technology. Hugh’s article builds on his old love of the Heidegger essay “The Question Concerning…
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 OER community on Twitter to recommend some resources for introducing people to OER, open education, and open pedagogy. Hi! #OER community. What articles, books, blog…
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 in Quebec City, and a tireless champion of open publishing of academic voices from francophone countries with little in the way of academic publishing infrastructure….
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 Pressbooks Directory will make a huge difference in making OER (open educational resources) findable by others. One of our goals at BCcampus is to make…
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. One of the valuable traits of OER is their ability to reflect a moment and a context, and studies show that these types of customizations…
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 than ever before. Our team is excited to share some of the books that perked our interest in 2020. We played fast and loose with…
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 single place where all Pressbooks content could be found,” a proverbial apple hit him on the head. It would be really nice to have a…