Hi Amy,
This is a good question. By ‘sustainable’ do you mean the way in which the platform is implemented, how staff interact with, the in-house support at an institution, the continued funding for the Pressbooks licence, or other considerations? I suppose under how we’d define sustainability, one would set the parameters (and that may answer my first question)? I just wanted to make sure I understood the request properly.
Thanks for your time,
Adrian
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Lots of accessibility features are baked in (works with screen readers, contrast, etc). We can break the features, but the default is accessible.
· The work can be exported in a variety of file types across multiple platforms, which provides students a choice regarding the modality through which they would like to interact with the resources, a need which is a consistent finding in edtech research.
· Built on WordPress, so feels familiar to our faculty/instructors/students already interacting with online materials. And for those who are not (creators/authors who work outside of Pressbooks and send me their stuff) the import process is pretty smooth, so if I do end up building it myself it isn’t a heavy lift.
· We control whether/to what extent data is gathered (on the student level, etc.)
· So, so, so easy to clone works from other Pressbooks accounts which have been licensed to permit that.
· CanNOT clone works from other Pressbooks accounts if they have NOT been licensed to permit that. I love that.
· Pressbooks Directory has international reach, so faculty whose work is set to be discoverable in the Directory are able to speak to the international impact of their scholarship and research.
· The people there are just so doggone nice.
Ed Beck
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Teaching, Learning, and
Technology Center
SUNY Oneonta
Hey everyone,
The OEN is launching a new pilot called Manifold for publishing OER. I just learned about it so forgive me if you are all already familiar with it or if someone has already posted about it.
https://open.umn.edu/blog/open-education-network-launches-manifold-pilot
Demo project: https://demo.manifoldapp.org/projects/google-document-sample
I don’t know anything more about it or whether Manifold would be more or less sustainable than pressbooks, but its nice to have options.
Karen
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Hello, all,
At my university, we do not have an enterprise license for Pressbooks, but we did purchase about 20 "Individual Faculty" licenses a few years ago. These were advertised at the time as perpetual; that is, $99 for life. Well, apparently that life is ending on 9/29/22. Our faculty are faced with three choices: 1) opt in to the new platform for $500/year, 2) move their e-book to a different platform, or 3) let it be deleted on 9/29/22.
The new fee is not sustainable for us! What other platforms can you recommend? Does anyone host their own open source Pressbooks? Has anyone put their epub onto another hosting service such as reclaimhosting.com?
Much appreciated,Justina
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Hello.
We encourage faculty to use LibreTexts. It’s free (and will remain so). It also has a lot of additional functionality that makes it pretty awesome. They can upload the book directly from PB for you (all you need to do is fill out a request OER integration form).
Let me know if you have any questions or if there’s anything I can do to help.
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Hi everyone,
Sustainability is a huge concern for OER and for us here at Pressbooks. It’s been great for me and our team to see the conversations and constructive criticism on here, all of which we’ve been reading and learning from since this thread began. The reason I’m hopping on this thread is to clear up some facts about our new service at pressbooks.pub.
Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, the platform and the model employed at the pressbook.com network was not sustainable and did not serve the needs of the OER community as well as it could have. As a result, we will no longer host books at pressbooks.com as of September 29th. But please note: We will preserve openly licensed books! Public books with an open license will be migrated to a new url on pressbooks.pub and redirects will be set up so readers are not confused. These books will be hosted in a read-only state for free.
If the authors would like to edit and revise these books at the new url, this is where they will need a subscription. Subscriptions start at $12 per month. You can read more about our pricing tiers.
Our new network, pressbooks.pub, is designed so that many of the important educational features in Pressbooks are available to individual authors. Features like the ability to be included in the Presbooks Directory, analytics in your dashboard to measure page views, interactive quiz building and other H5P interactives are available now to individuals, many of which were previously only available with institutional agreements.
To learn more, please read our full announcement. Our hope is that these changes will better support creation and dissemination of OER resources. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at feed...@pressbooks.com – we would be happy to continue the conversation about the pricing.
Happy discussing,
Amy
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Charity Davenport
Instructional Technology Specialist (Accessibility)
Pellissippi State Community College
Pellissippi Academic Center for Excellence (PACE)