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Technology • Brad Payne & Clint Lalonde • Open Textbook Summit, Vancouver • April 16, 2014
@clintlalonde @bdolor #otsummit
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Issues technology can help with
Students Faculty
Choice of formats ● Web ● Mobile ● Print ● eBook
1. Easy to find 2. Quality 3. How can I modify?
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40 Subject Areas 0 Textbooks
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Faculty: Where to find
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Faculty: Where to find
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Faculty: Where to find
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API
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Faculty: Where to find
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API
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Faculty: Where to find
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API
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Faculty: Where to find
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Faculty: Quality
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Faculty: Quality
API
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Faculty: Quality
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Faculty: Quality
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Faculty: Modify
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Faculty: Modify
Write Once
Publish Many
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Student: Choice of formats
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Student: Choice of formats
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Student: Choice of formats
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Student: Choice of formats
$9.19 (B&W) $20.04 (Colour) 244 pages
PressBooks modifications
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Context
PressBooks is open source • modifications were only possible within this context
• the narratives for open textbooks and open software are similar
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Modifications
PressBooks and PressBooks Textbook • What functionality is required for open textbooks?
o about 15,000 code additions to PB core • What if that functionality deviates from pressbooks.com?
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Symbiosis
PressBooks and PressBooks Textbook
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Reuse - PBT Plugin
Creative Commons • the creative commons configurator • modifications made to allow derivative works
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Revise - PBT plugin
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Revise - PBT Plugin
Adapt, Adjust, Modify • math equations - PB LaTeX plugin • table buttons - MCE Table button plugin • textbook buttons - MCE Textbook button plugin
o exercises (with LRMI metadata) o key takeaways (with LRMI metadata) o learning objectives (with LRMI metadata)
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Remix - PBT Plugin
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Remix - PBT Plugin Importer • EPUB • DOCX • ODT • WXR/XML Open Textbooks • Download links to 36 open textbooks
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Redistribute/Retain - PBT Plugin
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Redistribute/Retain - PBT Plugin
Textbook API • the solution to the problem of redistributing protected files got me
thinking about how to implement textbook API’s Redistribute and retain files for free • Download links to each of the latest export files (epub, pdf, xhtml,
hpub, mobi, wxr, icml) on the homepage
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Download, import, reorder chapters
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The future
Enabling Adaptation Development of PB Community (Developer & User) ● https://github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-textbook ● https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks
Continued EDU & OTB specific enhancements
Thank You Questions?
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