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Open Educational Resources

Getting Started with Pressbooks

What is Pressbooks?

Pressbooks is a popluar tool for open textbooks, making easy the process of creating, modifying, and publishing.  Its overall commitment to accessible design, coupled with the support for interactive assessment, embedded multimedia, and web annotation contribute to high quality OER.  It is a simple, publishing software for authoring and publication of multimedia-rich print books, e-books, and web books.  The published are shareable in multiple formats including online versions, pdf, epub (so your readers can use their e-reader), and mobi (specifically for Kindle), and can easily be adapted and updated using the Pressbooks software.

Interested in a Pressbooks account?

Members of the Medicine Hat College community who are interested in obtaining a Pressbooks account should complete the form "MHC OER MOU" (found below), and email it to the designated representative, Laura Gunn, at lgunn@mhc.ab.ca.

Library Support

The designated representative is the main point of contact between Medicine Hat College OER authors and the University of Alberta Libraries.  For more information about services provided, as well as required information for beginning a book, please refer to the document below.  If you still have questions, please email the designated representative, Laura Gunn, at lgunn@mhc.ab.ca.

Example Pressbooks

                                                                                                              

           Business Communication for Success                                       An Example of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" in Pressbooks

Marion Synnott et al. (2021). SAIT. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.                            Franz Kafka (originally written 1912). Public Domain.

 

                                                                                                         

              Canadian History: Post Confederation                                                       Psychology 1st Canadian Edition

   John Douglas Belshaw (2016). BC Campus. CC BY.                 Sally Walters (2020). Thompson Rivers University. CC BY-NC-SA.

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