Pressbooks

August 8, 2024

UW Libraries in the Classroom: Co-Creating and Publishing Books in Class

What is a knowledge family? How could architects redefine the #Hatch-Mark? What is the place of sports at a university?  These questions reflect some of the insights revealed in three new online books created by students, in partnership with UW Libraries, utilizing Pressbooks. In Spring 2024, Open Education Librarian, Lauren Ray, worked with faculty and instructors…

August 23, 2023

Bring Open Scholarship Impact to Your Classroom & Research

Free Digital Scholarship Open Hosting Platforms from UW Libraries TIPS FOR FACULTY AND INSTRUCTORS We are happy to explore options for sharing your research and scholarship with these tools, or working with you to incorporate them into your teaching! We can offer consultation and classroom instruction on considerations for open student work, Creative Commons and…

March 1, 2021

Top 5 OER tips for Huskies – Celebrating Open Education Week

This week, March 1-5, 2021, is Open Education Week, an annual global celebration of open education efforts, including open courses, open textbooks, and other open educational resources (OER).  OER and textbook affordability go hand in hand. OER are free or extremely low cost by definition. When courses are taught using open textbooks and other OER,…