Departmental Collaboration at Concordia

This chapter showcases three chapters from the JOUR 443: The Digital Magazine open textbook, one of Concordia University’s OER grant-funded open textbook projects. Cristina Sanza and Andrea Hunter lead this department-wide initiative for the Department of Journalism’s capstone course.

An example of scaffolding pedagogy, the open textbook, is integral to JOUR 443, the department’s capstone course with multiple chapter-level uses for journalism courses. Some aspects that make this textbook stand out are accessibility, collaborative peer and student co-authorship, equity and inclusion, diversity and representation, interactivity, and localization. We highlight the expert use of multimedia and H5P (HTML5 Package and content types and activities), demonstrating that creating, sharing, and reusing interactive content is easy.

Rich audiovisuals – JOUR 443 Open Textbook

Notice the rich audiovisuals like videos, audio, and other interactive media. JOUR 334 uses free HTML5-based image content types. You can easily add the following three H5P features found in this chapter into your Pressbooks project:

• How to use the Accordion H5P feature
• How to use the Image Juxtaposition H5P feature
• How to use the Multiple Choice H5P feature

Writing Skills — JOUR 443 Open Textbook

See how the writing-focused chapter in JOUR 443 incorporates the following eight free HTML5-based content types (in order of appearance):

• Accordion
• Essay (with Instant Feedback)
• Sort the Paragraphs
• Course Presentation
• Interactive Book
• Single Choice Set
• True/False Question
• Quiz (Question Set)

Photography as narrative – JOUR 443 Open Textbook

Notice the quality of the images and the responsive and engaging Image Slider with H5P. This example shows how H5P Image Hotspots can be applied to reveal texts, images, and videos when clicked.