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Open Education Alberta is a grassroots collaborative, no-fee publishing service for open educational resources (OER), including open textbooks, toolkits, guides, and more. Educators from the University of Calgary can use this service to develop and host OER in a Pressbooks platform. In this online session, attendees will learn about this OER publishing service offered by Libraries […]
Join Montgomery College (MC) during Open Education Week for an interactive session spotlighting the transformative role of Pressbooks in the creation of Open Educational Resources (OER). This session will feature two MC educators who have harnessed the power of Pressbooks to develop unique educational materials. The session will kick off with an introduction to Pressbooks, […]
Open educational resources (OER) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) complement each other well to further accessible learning opportunities and support students' success. In this webinar, we will explore concepts like the social model of disability and how the UDL principle of "multiple means of representation" can be applied in the design of OER through […]
One of the biggest barriers to OER adoption and use is finding the right resource. In this session, we will look at some McMaster-specific resources that will help you in your search (including McMaster’s OER by Discipline Guide version 2.0), explore some OER repositories, and consider some strategies to fine tune your results. We will […]
The Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s National Training Expert Group is excited to invite you to join us for an upcoming panel discussion entitled "Introduction to OERs in RDM." The webinar will take place on March 7 at 1pm ET. Please register in advance using this link: https://engagedri-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VdN18hNhRjarTjk0CZ9glw#/re… This webinar is the first in […]
Open textbooks, a subset of open educational resources (OER) are digitally structured open textbooks, released in adaptable and shareable formats, with a Creative Commons  (CC) license. Open textbooks enable teachers to develop and update textbooks in alignment with their curricular needs and to improve students access to quality learning content. Pressbooks, a WordPress-based open textbooks […]
Pressbooks is a powerful and popular tool for creating open educational resources such as textbooks. Whether you are looking for training for yourself or your research assistants, this training will cover the basics of how to use Pressbooks to create and enhance content. By the end of this session participants will be familiar with: Overview […]
One of the key advantages of Open Education is the ability to reuse and adapt existing content. Luckily, this also addresses some of its biggest challenges: time to create, localization, and visibility. However, navigating through the vast sea of open educational resources can be overwhelming. Join us for this quick 30 minute session about the […]
Many colleges, universities, and higher education systems rely on Pressbooks’ open publishing platform as an essential part of their technology infrastructure to support OER and other institutional publishing programs. This session provides a guided show-and-tell about Pressbooks networks and what to consider as you make choices around open publishing tools for your campus community. What […]
We continue to celebrate Open Education Week at our second event focussed on Accessibility and H5P in open resources. During this event, we will be hearing from two fantastic speakers from Australia and Canada. They will share their experiences working on open resources and how to make them accessible and interactive through H5P and Pressbooks. […]
Did you know the Ontario post-secondary community has free access to Pressbooks, an easy-to-use open content publishing platform for creating (or adapting) online resources such as textbooks, guidebooks, modules, lab manuals, student-generated assignments, and more? This session will provide an overview of Pressbooks and the dynamic features that are natively baked in – including H5P […]
Concordia University fosters open education to enhance access to quality educational resources. Part of Open Education Month at Concordia University, Behind the Scenes offers insight into several open textbooks and open guidebook projects, namely: Department of Art History, Create Grant Project, Creating the Modern: Intersections of Art and Society in the Nineteenth Century by Loren […]
