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Open Pedagogy Notebook

This website is designed to serve as a resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy. We invite you to browse through the examples, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas, and to consider contributing examples of…

Pressbooks; Glossary Creation, DOI Integration

You can automatically create a glossary for your book on any Pressbooks network, add DOIs to your book’s metadata, and customize the automatic section labels for your book’s parts and chapters. Find this and more in the Pressbooks 5.6.0 update:…

Editoria Book (Help Guide)

Coko Collaborates: Editoria Community Over the last month, there have been big advances in the Editoria community. Editoria Book Community members from University of California Press, California Digital Library, Paged Media and Coko collaborated to document Editoria, facilitated by Book Sprints’…

UH OER Training

A three-part training guide for bringing higher education instructors up to speed with Open Educational Resources (OER). This book was developed to serve as a standalone guide for independent creators and to support OER training through face-to-face, online, and hybrid…

UW-Madison PressbooksEDU Instance Supports 70+ Open Publishing Projects

PressbooksEDU News University of Wisconsin-Madison has been using Pressbooks as a platform to facilitate open educational resources (OER) and open textbook publishing for years. Steel Wagstaff, an instructional technology consultant at UW-Madison, piloted the use of Pressbooks at the university…

Protégé

A free, open-source ontology editor and framework for building intelligent systems Protégé is supported by a strong community of academic, government, and corporate users, who use Protégé to build knowledge-based solutions in areas as diverse as biomedicine, e-commerce, and organizational…

Commercial Platforms that Utilize OER

Commercial Platforms that Utilize Open Educational Resources. A Crowdsourced Tool for Sharing Information and Assessing Products. A new tool for sharing information about commercial platforms containing #OER is out! It is a public Google Sheet, so feel free explore, edit,…

PASTEUR4OA

PASTEUR4OA (Open Access Policy Alignment Strategies for European Union Research) aims to support the European Commission’s Recommendation to Member States of July 2012 that they develop and implement policies to ensure Open Access to all outputs from publicly-funded research.

OA Monographs

Open Access Monographs An open access monograph is a scholarly monograph which is made freely available with a creative commons licence. Open Access monographs offer a real opportunity for long-form humanities and social sciences scholarship to reach a wider audience.

DIY OA Journal Publishing Platforms Data sheet

DIY OA Journal Publishing Platforms Data sheet Add any information to this sheet about open access (DIY) publishing platforms. This sheet (google docs) is initiated by: Jeroen Sondervan

Markdown

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).