Research Guides: Library Workshop Descriptions: Digital Publishing

Intro to Digital Publishing: Open Textbooks on Pressbooks

Software:	A free account on the Pressbooks platform.
Duration:	90 minutes
Room description:	Varies. Often held in the Knight Library DREAM Lab workshop space.
Prerequisites:	No prerequisites required, but it helps to have attended the Open Educational Resources (OER) workshop for basic familiarity with OER and the motivations for using/creating OER. Faculty who are interested in adapting or authoring open textbooks for use in this workshop are encouraged to attend.
Skills Taught / Learning Outcomes:	Identify the steps of the textbook publishing process, including common roles and responsibilities in preproduction and production. Experiment with the Pressbooks platform, and begin to layout an open textbook. Select a creative commons open license, and add license to sample Pressbook.
Class Materials:	Creating Open Educational Resources (OER)
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