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Summary This guide offers an overview and introduction to Pressbooks for Boise State and non-Boise State educators. Resources are provided on using Pressbooks to create OER, curricular content, and interactive learning activities. Introduction offers a brief introduction to Pressbooks and the different versions of Pressbooks available for content creation and publishing. |
What is Pressbooks?
Pressbooks is a WordPress-based online platform for self-publishing books in multiple formats: e-books, webbooks, and print-ready PDFs. The software, which is open source, makes significant changes to the WordPress admin interface, web presentation, and export routines.
Pressbooks is a popular tool for open textbooks, making easy the process of creating, modifying, and publishing. Pressbooks offers accessible design, interactive assessment (through the H5P plugin), embedded multimedia, and web annotation (through Hypothes.is), which make it a good platform for the creation of OER and supplementary course materials.
With Pressbooks, faculty can find, adapt, create, and contribute to educational content that is customizable, accessible, interactive, and, if the author chooses, free. Pressbooks supports non-disposable, open, accessible, interactive, and customizable content and courseware.
Reasons to Use Pressbooks
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