Learn how Pressbooks is powering the development of open educational resources and open textbook initiatives at colleges and universities.
Quick Facts Maryland’s largest community college, with three campuses across the state and an upcoming education center Identified as the most diverse community college in the continental US. Building momentum around Zero Textbook Cost degree (Z-degree) programs since receiving a 2017 grant from Achieving the Dream As of spring 2024, over 11,800 students were enrolled…
Growing the impact of a trail-blazing program to lower the cost of education and improve the quality of learning materials Quick Facts • Consortium of 10 community colleges in Maricopa County, Arizona • Serving over 80,000 students per year • Pressbooks client since January 2020 • 400+ books published with Pressbooks as of July 2023…
eCampusOntario • Large consortium/non-profit serving 50+ public colleges and universities across Ontario, Canada• Pressbooks user since 2017• Published 2,900+ books as of June 2023 eCampusOntario’s Pressbooks story in brief
Many of you who are active in the OER community will already know Rajiv Jhangiani’s name. Besides being the co-editor of a well-regarded 2017 book on open education, “Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science,” and an outspoken advocate for open pedagogy and improving global access to educational opportunities, Rajiv currently…
Staff at the Teaching and Learning Centre and Distance Education units at the University of Saskatchewan are steadily building their OER program. They started with the adoption and adaptation of openly licensed textbooks by faculty at the university and are now beginning to develop ancillary materials. To learn more about OER development at USask, we…
It was while searching for a tool to help an American Government professor adapt an open textbook that James Paradiso, an instructional designer at University of Central Florida, discovered his university’s Pressbooks instance. UCF is a member of Unizin, a consortium of higher education institutions across the United States. Unizin offers access to educational software…
The Evolution of Affordable Content Efforts in the Higher Education Environment: Programs, Case Studies, and Examples, edited by Kristi Jensen and Shane Nackerud, is one of the latest books to be published by University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing on the Libraries’ Pressbooks network. The book is a compilation of case studies that delve deeply into…
University of Texas at Arlington is using its PressbooksEDU system as a platform on which to build open educational resources as part of UTA Libraries’ open education program. Open Education Librarian Michelle Reed says the program supports open education broadly, including distribution of grant funding for the creation and adoption of OER, as well as…
At The Ohio State University, Pressbooks has become an integral platform for the university’s open textbook affordability initiative. The university already has 18 published books on its Pressbooks network, a handful of private books being used in OSU classes, and almost 60 new books in development, says Michael Shiflet, Digital Publishing Coordinator, Affordability and…