External Innovative Community Examples
Inspiring examples of Open Textbooks in
Pressbooks
This chapter showcases some of the Pressbooks community’s beloved books as of 2022. Some aspects that make these texts stand out are collaborative peer and student co-authoring, interactivity, accessibility, equity, and inclusion.
Career and Workforce Readiness
This book focuses on work-integrated learning, which allows learners to hone their work-related skills. The book provides various opportunities for reflection, practicing concepts and exporting work. Users can download portfolio activities. They can further organize and catalogue their documents in a downloadable portfolio.
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Book Showcase 1: Overview of Career and Workforce Readiness by Careerspace – Trent University, 2022, CC BY 4.0.
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Book Showcase 1: Reflection exercises in Career and Workforce Readiness by Careerspace – Trent University, 2022, CC BY 4.0.
Liberated Learners: How to Learn with Style
Co-designed by students, faculty and staff, this book is a fine example of student co-authorship, interactivity, as well as equity and inclusion. Winner of the 2022 Open Education Global Award for Best OER, Liberated Learners equips students to learn proactively in the digital sphere. Besides its user-friendly features, the book also supports bilingual (English/French) and accessible learning through downloadable resources.
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Book Showcase 2: Overview of Liberated Learners by Terry Greene et al., 2022, CC BY 4.0.
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Book Showcase 2: Reflection exercises in Liberated Learners by Terry Greene et al., 2022, CC BY 4.0.
The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition
This exhibition catalogue and library exhibit take the form of a digital book with Pressbooks used as the platform.
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Book Showcase 3: Overview of The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition by individual contributors of this online library exhibition, 2021, CC BY 4.0.
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Book Showcase 3: Reflection exercise in The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition by individual contributors of this online library exhibition, 2021, CC BY 4.0.
Media Attributions
- Book Showcase 1: Career and Workforce Readiness by 2022 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Book Showcase 2: Liberated Learners by Terry Greene et al. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
- Book Showcase 3: The Languages of Berkeley: An Online Exhibition by individual contributors of this online library exhibition is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
