Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Open Education Alberta
Open Education Alberta is a collaborative, no-fee publishing services for open textbooks and other open educational resources.
It allows educators from the University of Calgary to host OERs on a Pressbooks instance hosted by the University of Alberta Library.
What is Pressbooks?
Pressbooks is a simple publishing software for the authoring and publication of multimedia-rich print books, ebooks, and webbooks. The published books are shareable in multiple formats including pdf, epub, and mobi and can easily be adapted and updated using the Pressbooks software.
Interested in a Pressbooks account?
Members of the University of Calgary community who are interested in obtaining a Pressbooks account should complete the form below. You will then be contacted by a member of the Library team who will outline the features of the software and your responsibilities as a user. All users must sign and agree to the terms of the publishing agreement below before an account will be issued.
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OER Memorandum of UnderstandingThis document outlines the responsibilities of both Libraries and Cultural Resources and Project Leads. All Project Leads will be asked to sign an MoU before a Pressbooks account is provisioned.
- Last Updated: Mar 1, 2021 9:14 PM
- URL: https://library.ucalgary.ca/guides/OER
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