How Pressbooks Supports Open Education
Pressbooks is an open source book publishing platform that makes it easy for anyone to create and share their ideas. Pressbooks allows authors to invite collaborators, quickly adapt and remix other openly-licensed material, and distribute their work however they see fit.
Open Educational Resources (OER) increase global access to learning opportunities, make education more affordable, and provide everyone with the freedom to combine, adapt, and improve content to meet local needs. You can see thousands of OER published with Pressbooks in the Pressbooks Directory.
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Learn More about OER
Under the UNESCO definition, OER refer to material that permits “no-cost access, re-use, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution by others.” Another helpful shorthand is the formula OER = free + permissions, delightfully illustrated in the remixed artwork by librarian Michelle Reed shown at left.
Open education is transforming how institutions approach teaching and learning. We’ve developed an Open Education Reference Guide that presents an instututional maturity model along with relevant resources for each stage of your institutional journey.
Recommended Resources for Open Education Practitioners
Here are a few of the many excellent resources about Open Education that have been published with Pressbooks.
OER Starter Kit
An introductory guide for instructors on understanding and creating OER
OER Student Toolkit
An open education advocacy guide for student leaders at BC Campus
Open Pedagogy Approaches
Case studies describing open pedagogy collaborations
Open at the Margins
An curated collection of marginalized stances on a range of educational issues
From the Pressbooks Blog
Supporting Role-Play-Based Learning in Pressbooks
When students step into roles (doctors diagnosing patients, employees negotiating a pay raise) they gain more than just knowledge. They practice decision-making, confidence-building, and communication in ways that traditional lectures can’t replicate. That’s the power… Continue Reading Supporting Role-Play-Based Learning in Pressbooks
Adaptation in Action: Voices from the ROTEL Project
Over the past three years, the ROTEL (Remixing Open Textbooks through an Equity Lens) project has supported faculty across Massachusetts as they reimagined course materials to better serve their students. Through professional development, peer support,… Continue Reading Adaptation in Action: Voices from the ROTEL Project
Open Education Week 2025 at Pressbooks
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… Continue Reading Open Education Week 2025 at Pressbooks