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The document discusses the PressBooks software platform and its use and modifications for publishing open textbooks. It describes how PressBooks was adapted through a plugin called PressBooks Textbook to better meet the needs of open textbook publishing like adding buttons for exercises, objectives, and key takeaways with metadata. The plugin also allows for importing content from other formats and redistributing final textbook files for free download.
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- 3. open.bccampus.ca “Connect theexpertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework” 1 Open Education Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational Resources Support instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License
- 4. What are OER? “Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.” UNESCO http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/ what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/ open.bccampus.ca
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- 6. BC Open TextbookProject open.bccampus.ca 40 free and open textbooks available for the highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC First province in Canada Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/ Used under CC-BY-SA license
- 7. We have aproblem (2 actually) Images: http://www.openeducation.net/2009/09/17/beyond-textbooks-andy-chlup-discusses-digital-learning-models/ used under CC-BY license open.bccampus.ca
- 8. Problem #1 Studentsspend $1200/yr on textbooks 4x rate of inflation over past 20 years 70% students have not purchased textbook for a course because of price open.bccampus.ca
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- 11. Problem #2 Ownership& Control open.bccampus.ca iPod DRM by *n3wjack's world in pixels used under CC-BY-SA license eBook on eBook by DWRL at U Texas used under CC-BY-SA-NC license Students Faculty
- 12. Issues & Goals Students Faculty Free Choice of formats ● Web ● Mobile ● Print ● eBook Can retain permanently open.bccampus.ca 1. Easy to find 2. Quality 3. Modify or create
- 13. Additional Software Requirements ● Web based authoring - distributed collaboration ● Open Source ● Extensible & Customizable ● Remix different formats ● Output many formats - HTML, ePub, PDF, mobi ● Support open licenses (Creative Commons) open.bccampus.ca
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- 16. Faculty: Modify open.bccampus.ca Write Once Publish Many
- 17. PressBooks open.bccampus.ca PressBooks.com https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks https://wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks/
- 18. PressBooks: What itdoes ● Export engine ● Custom book themes ● Modifies WP admin interface ● Changes from Post paradigm to Chapter paradigm ● One book, one site (require multi-site) open.bccampus.ca
- 19. PressBooks: Root open.bccampus.ca One Book, One Site
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- 21. Faculty: Easy tofind & evaluate open.bccampus.ca
- 22. Faculty: Easy tofind & evaluate open.bccampus.ca
- 23. Student: Entry pointto book open.bccampus.ca
- 24. PressBooks: Book Example open.bccampus.ca http://opentextbc.ca/modernphilosophy/
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- 26. PressBooks Book admin open.bccampus.ca
- 27. PressBooks Book admin:Text open.bccampus.ca
- 28. PressBooks Book admin:Book Info open.bccampus.ca
- 29. PressBooks Book admin:Themes open.bccampus.ca
- 30. PressBooks Book admin:Export open.bccampus.ca
- 31. PressBooks: Considerations ●Uses commercial PDF engine (PrinceXML) ● Requires standalone multi-site instance of WP open.bccampus.ca
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- 33. Context PressBooks isopen source • modifications were only possible within this context • the narratives for open textbooks and open software are similar open.bccampus.ca
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- 35. Modifications PressBooks andPressBooks Textbook • What functionality is required for open textbooks? o about 16,500 code additions to PB core • What if that functionality deviates from pressbooks.com? open.bccampus.ca
- 36. Symbiosis PressBooks andPressBooks Textbook open.bccampus.ca
- 37. Reuse - PBTPlugin Creative Commons • the creative commons configurator • modifications made to allow derivative works open.bccampus.ca
- 38. Revise - PBTplugin open.bccampus.ca
- 39. Revise - PBTPlugin Adapt, Adjust, Modify • math equations - PB LaTeX plugin • table buttons - MCE Table button plugin • textbook buttons - MCE Textbook button plugin o exercises (with LRMI metadata) o key takeaways (with LRMI metadata) o learning objectives (with LRMI metadata) open.bccampus.ca
- 40. Revise - PBTPlugin LaTeX image rendering service: Preserving images in export routine: open.bccampus.ca
- 41. Remix - PBTPlugin open.bccampus.ca
- 42. Remix - PBTPlugin Importer • EPUB • DOCX • ODT • WXR/XML Open Textbooks • Download links to 47 open textbooks open.bccampus.ca
- 43. Remix - PBTPlugin Pseudocode (DOCX import): - test if it’s a valid Zip file - get the file paths to content and metadata - get the content and metadata - get endnotes, footnotes, and hyperlinks - process them (they are in separate documents), save them - import a monstrous XSLT stylesheet - throw the styled content into the DOM - parse by Chapter, insert into PB open.bccampus.ca
- 44. Redistribute/Retain - PBTPlugin open.bccampus.ca
- 45. Redistribute/Retain - PBTPlugin 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 open.bccampus.ca
- 46. Redistribute/Retain - PBTPlugin open.bccampus.ca
- 47. Download, import, reorderchapters open.bccampus.ca
- 48. The future EnablingAdaptation Development of PB Community (Developer & User) ● https://github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-textbook ● https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks Continued EDU & OTB specific enhancements open.bccampus.ca
- 49. Thank You Questions? open.bccampus.ca @clintlalonde @bdolor #otsummit