Introducing Pressbooks

 

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. Check out our Pressbooks service here. 

 

How are we using Pressbooks at Sask Polytech?

Pressbooks is a tool that facilitates finding, sharing and creating open education resources. Open education resources(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 for others as well. Over the next few months we will continue to add resources into Pressbooks that have been developed by our academic community.

 

To sign up for an account or to get oriented to the platform, contact pressbooks@saskpolytech.ca.

 

Also consider viewing a previous session that discusses Pressbooks and OER. “Adopt, adapt or create? A faculty OER toolkit with Pressbooks.”

 

Some valuable links include:

• Pressbooks Directory for a listing of almost 5000 resources that can be easily adopted or adapted. 
• Open Education Resources by Subject Directory provides a listing of open resources based the Sask Polytech school and program structure. Easily find relevant OERs for your program and recommend titles for the directory.
•  Sask Polytechnic Pressbooks Guide for information on how to use Pressbooks
• Pressbooks webinars for a live or recorded training session.
• Pressbooks YouTube channel for additional information on how to maximize your use of the platform.