Pressbooks & OER Training Course

Welcome!

This course is designed for Utah Higher Education faculty, staff, and students who would like to learn more about the philosophy and practices surrounding Open Education Resources (OER). Additionally, participants will be guided through creation of a digital publication using UEN's statewide license for PressbooksEDU.

By the end of the course, you will--

Know how to connect with Utah's growing OER and OP community
Be familiar with key terms and concepts of OER and OP
Be aware of why and how to find, evaluate, and use OER
Know how to use OER to increase engagement and streamline processes (such as grading in Canvas via PressbooksEDU)
Have a complete Pressbooks project

How to Navigate this Course

Each module contains one or more sections with these subsections:

Explore - Background information, examples, and more
Do - Activities to help you apply what you're learning
Go Further - More resources for deepening your understanding and practice

This Course is an OER

If you are guiding others in the use of OER, OP, and/or Pressbooks projects, here's what you need to know to export, remix, customize, and reuse this content:

The content in this course is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International license. You are free to export, remix, reuse and customize the content in this course under the following conditions:
- Use the same CC BY 4.0 license in your copy.
- Provide attribution in your copy. Suggested attribution: Content in this course is derived from "Pressbooks & OER Training Course" by Donna Ziegenfuss, Jenn Gibbs, Carol Kunzler and Jennifer Hughes for the UEN Digital Press CoP, Utah Education and Telehealth Network is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Options for using this course include:
- Open access website for information
- Canvas Commons export
- Other Export/Import options

So, let's get started with Module #1

2022-08-04 (version 1)