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 can measure impact in a variety of ways. For example: the total number of platform users (18,000+), the number of books available in Pressbooks Directory…
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 more tools to help showcase the variety of outstanding work they’ve published. Along with the release of our newly redesigned network catalog, we’ve also been…
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.
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 and difficult to stay engaged in. Open educational resources (OER) are flexible enough to provide better support for learners in all kinds of fields. You…
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 of Spanish, complete with a wide range of embedded content to help immerse the reader, such as interactive videos, social media, dialogue cards with audio,…
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…
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 includes many great resources for a variety of languages and skill levels. Many of these include H5P content (interactive elements) such as matching questions, flashcards,…
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 time, especially at introductory levels. Such large class sizes make these courses an excellent place to begin implementing open educational resources (OER), as a single…
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.
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…