Tools and Resources
Tools and resources for adopting, customizing, and creating OER
Pressbooks
As part of open education at Concordia, Concordia University Library hosts an instance of Pressbooks to create and distribute open educational resources, including but not limited to open textbooks.
What is Pressbooks?
Widely used in OER initiatives worldwide, Pressbooks is an easy-to-use book writing and publishing open-source software that lets you create a book in multiple formats. It works with different plugins, including H5P (interactive content), Hypothes.is (collaborative annotation), and MathJax (accessible equations). The open textbooks created in Pressbooks can be read online and downloaded in various formats (e.g. PDF, ePub, XML).
Are you interested in a Pressbooks account?
For any questions, including setting up an account, please email oer@concordia.ca.
Guides for Adopting, Customizing, and Creating
Learn more about Pressbooks
Author: Pressbooks
Title: "Make Your Own Book" in Growing To Using Pressbooks
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The "Make Your Own Book" chapter provides a guide to bringing your content into Pressbooks, cloning existing books, editing sections working with media and images, creating and displaying contributors and so forth.
Author: Rachel Harris; Sana Ahmad; Rahil Kakkad; Zo Kopyna; Chhayhee Sok; and Asifur Rahman
Title: Guide to Pressbooks at Concordia University
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Our Guide to Pressbooks at Concordia University supplements Pressbooks' official Pressbooks User Guide. Designed by the Library's OER Team, we are building upon our experience working with open textbook grant recipients at Concordia University, Montreal.
Author: Author: Concordia University Library
Title: OER Discipline Resource Guide: Concordia University Library – 2nd edition
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Concordia faculty members and students are invited to discover Open Educational Resources (OER) that may suit their courses.
Before authoring, adopting or customizing may be possibilities.
- Does an equivalent OER already exist?
- Can you improve upon one or more existing OER?
- Are there materials you can draw from in your discipline, research, teaching practice?
- What textbooks, open textbooks and other OER, do you find inspiring? How so?