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In fall of 2022, Sask Polytechnic introduced the Pressbooks platform to provide an editing/publishing solution for employees to work with existing openly licensed resources or create and publish new material. For more information on how to apply Creative Commons Licenses click the button below.
What is Pressbooks?
Pressbooks is a publishing platform based on the popular Wordpress application. In Pressbooks educators can build and share ideas by creating interactive books.
Saskatchewan Polytechnic Pressbooks
How are we using Pressbooks at Sask Polytech?
Pressbooks is a tool that facilitates finding, sharing and creating Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are teaching resources that have an open-copyright licence (such as one from Creative Commons), or are part of the public domain and have no copyright. Depending on the licence used, OER can be freely accessed, used, re-mixed, improved, and shared. Several Saskatchewan Polytechnic employees have already published resources in Pressbooks, these books cover topics that assist our programs and provide valuable information. We continue to grow our academic community's OER collection in Pressbooks .
To sign up for an account or to get oriented to the platform, contact pressbooks@saskpolytech.ca.
If you have a great idea for an open education resource, but don't know how to make it happen, please contact our Scholarly Communications Librarian at copyright@saskpolytech.ca. For more information view our recorded session: “Adopt, adapt or create? A faculty OER toolkit with Pressbooks.”
Click here to learn about Saskatchewan Polytechnic's OER grant opportunities generously funded by the Government of Saskatchewan.
Additional resources
- Pressbooks Directory for a listing of over 5000 resources that can be easily adopted or adapted.
- OER by Subject Directory provides a listing of open resources based on Saskatchewan Polytechic's school and program structure. Find relevant OERs for your program and recommend titles for the directory.
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic Pressbooks Guide for information on how to use Pressbooks.
- Pressbooks webinars for live or recorded training sessions on the Pressbooks platform.
