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Technology
• Brad Payne & Clint Lalonde
• Open Textbook Summit, Vancouver
• April 16, 2014
@clintlalonde @bdolor
#otsummit
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Issues technology can help with
Students Faculty
Choice of formats
● Web
● Mobile
● Print
● eBook
1. Easy to find
2. Quality
3. How can I modify?
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1 year ago
40 Subject Areas
0 Textbooks
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Context
PressBooks is open source
• modifications were only possible within this context
• the narratives for open textbooks and open software are similar
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Modifications
PressBooks and PressBooks Textbook
• What functionality is required for open textbooks?
o about 15,000 code additions to PB core
• What if that functionality deviates from pressbooks.com?
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Symbiosis
PressBooks and PressBooks Textbook
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Reuse - PBT Plugin
Creative Commons
• the creative commons configurator
• modifications made to allow derivative works
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Redistribute/Retain - PBT Plugin
Textbook API
• the solution to the problem of redistributing protected files got me
thinking about how to implement textbook API’s
Redistribute and retain files for free
• Download links to each of the latest export files (epub, pdf, xhtml,
hpub, mobi, wxr, icml) on the homepage
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The future
Enabling Adaptation
Development of PB Community (Developer & User)
● https://github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-textbook
● https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks
Continued EDU & OTB specific enhancements