Website OER Projects

[Sue Kunda]

Hi, all.

I have a faculty member who's looking for a way to create a website for an OER rather than using more traditional textbook platforms (e.g., Pressbooks), and I'm just starting to look into this.

Does anyone have ideas or suggestions for us?

Best,

Sue

Sue Kunda (she/her)
Scholarly Communication Librarian

Library and Academic Innovation

Western Oregon University

345 Monmouth Ave N | Monmouth, OR 97361

503-838-8893
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[Jennifer S Sacklin]

Google Sites is pretty easy to use and I've made a couple Google Sites-based "books" (they're all horribly out of date so I don't want to link any here publicly).  On the user's end, a Google Site can feel & read very similar to Pressbooks.  Or, you can add more bells and whistles and make it feel more "website-y".

Jen

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[Tim Krause]

Hi, Sue, and all,

If you need an example, a colleague and I used Google Sites to make an OER reader for our ESOL reading classes. It was easy to incorporate media, H5P exercises for practice, and links to websites and documents that students might need. It's not a traditional textbook, but it seems very easy for students to navigate and use. To be clear, our website provides wrap-around materials for texts that we link to on external sites, but you could just as easily create a page with text inside your own site. Here's a link:  

https://sites.google.com/pcc.edu/world-englishes-demo/home

The downside is that while a site like this is easy to use and to maintain, it's not as easy for others to copy as their own and then remix/revise/republish/etc. in contrast to, say, a document or Pressbooks or even LMS file. And because it's simple to use, Google Sites might not have all the bells and whistles that a Pressbooks file would have. 

Tim

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[Ash Barber]

Hi Sue,

I created EmpoweredOER in website format: https://EmpoweredOER.com

I debated whether to create it in Pressbooks, but determined the web-like (ha!) connecting of concepts you can do in a website format was more conducive to the information I wanted to present than a traditional book format was.

Kind regards,

Ash

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[Alex Jordan]

If they comfortable with a non-WYSIWYG approach, there is PreTeXt:

https://pretextbook.org/

An example of a PreTeXt math book:

https://opentext.uleth.ca/apex-calculus/apex-calculus.html

Math-based short stories for kids through Indigenous Canadian story-telling:

http://www.sfu.ca/~vjungic/Small-Number/sec_SN_01_E.html

A computer science book:

https://bob.cs.sonoma.edu/IntroCompOrg-RPi/intro-co-rpi.html

What's the subject area? I could see if PTX has an example book in a related area.

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[Laird Sheldahl]

Wordpress is designed for print materials (like blogs, and books too)

it also natively host h5p files and has a very easy plugin for managing h5p content.

(if you arent familiar with the interactive language H5P – Create and Share Rich HTML5 Content and Applications its really great for OER)

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[Sue Kunda]

Thank you to everyone for your suggestions. The faculty member now has a few options to choose from (and even has offers to help). I love having a local community for asking these types of questions.

Thanks again to everyone

Sue Kunda (she/her)
Scholarly Communication Librarian

Library and Academic Innovation

Western Oregon University

345 Monmouth Ave N | Monmouth, OR 97361

503-838-8893
kun...@wou.edu | 208B Hamersly Library
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On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 4:43 PM Ash Barber <ash.b...@unisa.edu.au> wrote:

Hi Sue,

I did this to create EmpoweredOER: https://EmpoweredOER.com

I debated whether to create it in Pressbooks, but determined the web-like (ha!) connecting of concepts you can do in a website format was more conducive to the information I wanted to present than a traditional book format was.

Kind regards,

Ash

On 12 Apr 2024, at 8:03 AM, Jennifer S Sacklin <sack...@lanecc.edu> wrote:



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