Technology• Brad Payne & Clint Lalonde• Open Textbook Summit, Vancouver• April 16, 2014

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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 Areas0 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?

○ 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

○ exercises (with LRMI metadata)○ key takeaways (with LRMI metadata)○ learning objectives (with LRMI metadata)

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Remix - PBT Plugin

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Remix - PBT PluginImporter• 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 YouQuestions?

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