UW-Madison Pressbooks Users Group Madison | December 14th

Find, Import, Clone, & Remix Using Pressbooks to Work with Openly Licensed Content Steel Wagstaff, Instructional Technology Consultant, UW-Madison

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What are Open Educational Resources?

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What is Pressbooks?

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Sample uses @ UW-Madison

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User Story: Rachel Bain [Chem]

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Demo: finding & importing open content

Slides posted to Twitter: @SteelWagstaff

1. What are Open Educational Resources [OERs]?

98% % of courses which require a textbook or other material. Source: “Opening the Textbook,” Babson Survey Research Group, July 2016

Textbook Price Trends Since 1967, the price of textbooks has increased 2.81 times faster than the rate of all consumer goods (i.e. inflation). Price increases have accelerated in recent years. From January 2006 to July 2016: “consumer prices for college textbooks increased 88 percent … compared with an increase of 21 percent for all items” Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics’ TED blog. Yellow line = college textbooks; blue line = college tuition and fees; black line = all items [general inflation trend]

Textbook vs Recreational Book Trends Textbooks are now ~300% more expensive than they were in 1997; recreational books are 4% less expensive. At left: consumer price index trend lines from 1997-present for ‘educational books & supplies’ [top] and ‘recreational books’ [bottom]. Charts supplied by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

#TextbookBroke The College Board advises students to budget $1,298 annually for books & materials. However, the National Association of College Stores (NACS) says the average college student spends around $579 a year on textbooks. Similarly, Michael Feldstein estimates that students spend around $600 / year on textbooks. How to explain the difference? ●

Students don’t buy required textbooks (perhaps as many as ⅔)

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Students don’t buy the current edition

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Students take fewer courses (perhaps as many as ½ of all students)

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others. OERs can be textbooks, full courses, lesson plans, videos, tests, software, or any other tool, material, or technique that supports access to knowledge. Source: SPARC

The 5Rs of Open Content

OPEN = FREE + PERMISSIONS 1.

Retain

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Reuse

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Revise

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Remix

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Redistribute

— from David Wiley

Creative Commons Licenses

Source: http://foter.com/blog/how-to-attribute-creativ e-commons-photos/ See also UBC’s Creative Commons guide: https://copyright.ubc.ca/guidelines-and-resourc es/support-guides/creative-commons/

Why Open? 1.

Impact on learning. Large studies consistently find learning outcomes stay the same or increase.

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Educators can curate, tailor, and share OERs to suit their curriculum, and share their innovations freely.

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Students have ‘Day 1’ access and can customize their learning to better meet their needs.

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Students save $ on textbooks.

34.3% Percentage of faculty reporting that they were “aware” of Open Textbooks in 2016. 15.2% — “somewhat aware” | 12.2% — “aware” | 6.9% — “very aware” Source: “Opening the Textbook,” Babson Survey Research Group, July 2016

5.3% % of courses currently using an openly licensed (CC or public domain) required textbook. Source: “Opening the Textbook,” Babson Survey Research Group, July 2016

2. What is Pressbooks?

Pressbooks is “an online book publishing platform that makes it easy to generate clean, well-formatted books in multiple outputs. PressBooks is built on WordPress and is open source.” — Hugh McGuire, Pressbooks founder

Significant Features ●

UW-Madison’s production instance has been hosted by Unizin since August 2016.

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Each PB instance is a centrally-managed network (built on WordPress multisite) which can contain a huge number of separate “books” [two examples at right]

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UW-Madison Pressbooks

Each “book” has a unique web address. Books on the same network can have different structures, themes/appearances, copyright licenses, & permissions. Lumen Learning Pressbooks

What is a Pressbook? All published books exist as standalone web texts featuring landing page with: 1

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descriptive metadata

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cover image

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table of contents

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download options

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licensing information [not shown]

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Portuguese language textbook published at UW-Madison

Using Pressbooks TOP RIGHT: Pressbooks uses a standard WordPress visual/text HTML editor. Editing text & inserting media is as easy as using a word processor. Many collaborators can work on the same book with different roles & permissions. BOTTOM RIGHT: Pressbooks features a drag-and-drop chapter organization interface. Lets you create front & back matter, as well as two-level ‘part’ & ‘chapter’ organization for main content.

Interactive Content via H5P plugin

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Four examples of H5P activities in Pressbooks: 1. True/False type question set, 2. Fill in the blank activity, 3. Find multiple hotspots, 5. Interactive video (with drag & drop)

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Collaborative Annotation via Hypothesis plugin

At left: Pressbooks page with H5P activity and rich annotations 1. Multi-part quiz [H5P]

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2. Image in annotation layer

3. Video in annotation 4. Annotation with external link 5. Embedded audio in annotation

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6. Edit, delete, reply, share buttons for each annotation

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Integrating with Canvas via Thin Common Cartridge and LTI plugins

Import into Canvas TOP RIGHT: We can export books as Thin Common Cartridges and import them into Canvas via a simple 2-step process. This creates discrete links in Canvas for each of the book’s chapters. BOTTOM RIGHT: When a student clicks a link, the content loads as though it were native to Canvas. We will discuss integrating Pressbooks with Canvas in more detail at a user’s group meeting in early 2018.

Sample Interactive Reading Activity 4

A Pressbook used in a French lit course in Canvas this semester: 1. Annotated text (yellow highlights)

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2. Glossary term (blue link w/ tooltip) 3. Audio & video

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5. H5P activity in annotation pane

3. Sample Use Cases @ UW-Madison

USES for PRESSBOOKS What UW-Madison users are currently doing with Pressbooks

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Course material to replace or supplement $$$ texts

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Educational materials for language learning, outreach or distance/extension

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Anthologies/course readers of public domain material

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Student-authored projects

Course material to replace or supplement $$$ texts

Anatomy Textbook Projects A team of instructors (Elise Davis, Karen Krabbenhoft, Meghan Cotter, Sarah Traynor) in the School of Medicine and Public Health are publishing a series of interactive anatomy textbooks for medical students training to be doctors, nurses, and physician assistants. ●

Includes detailed anatomical images, gifs, and videos (to demonstrate range of motion)

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Many self-grading “knowledge check” quizzes

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Will include glossary and annotation features

Sample image from the “Skin” chapter of one of the anatomy books in production.

Materials for language learning, training, outreach and/or distance learning

Português para principiantes An online edition of Claude E. Leroy’s Português Para Principiantes, a Brazilian Portuguese language textbook first published by UW Extension in 1964 and last revised in 1993. ●

Used by hundreds of students this past year

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Includes 30+ lessons, 30 audio dialogues, pronunciation by native speakers for >1000 vocab words, cultural and literary ‘spotlights’

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>100 interactive assessments with real-time feedback

Cover design by Steel Wagstaff. All images used under CC BY licenses.

Anthologies/course readers of public domain material

Public Domain Anthologies / Course Readers John Zumbrunnen (chair, Political Science) is publishing anthologies for undergrad & grad seminars made with excerpts from primary texts in the public domain. ●

John invites students to annotate and contribute to a shared understanding of assigned texts.

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AT RIGHT: Images from Introduction to Political Thought and Political Theory of the American Revolution, two readers produced in the last year.

Student Authored Projects

Creators, Collectors & Communities Ann Smart Martin (Art History) led a group of students over two semesters in making a catalogue and eBook to accompany the inaugural exhibit of a new historical museum in Mount Horeb. ●

Includes images, descriptions of 50 objects, audio (oral histories) and other multimedia

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Also features detailed object studies (research papers written by students)

4. User Story: Rachel Bain [Chemistry]

Chemistry OpenStax Adoption Chemistry department is redesigning curriculum with focus on more active learning in introductory, ‘large lecture’ courses. Currently using Pressbooks to revise/adapt the OpenStax Chemistry textbook.

OpenStax Chemistry text in Pressbooks

5. Demo: Finding & Importing Open Content

What Exists for My Discipline? High-quality OER are abundant, but can be hard to find. The best place to start: ●

The Mason ER Metafinder, a meta-search engine built by Wally Grotophorst.

This tool simultaneously searches several large OER libraries, including: 1.

Open Textbook Library maintained by University of Minnesota.

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The OpenStax CNX project out of Rice University.

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OpenED textbooks, maintained by BCcampus.

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California’s Merlot II repository.

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The OER Commons

‘I Found Something I Want, Now What?’, Part 1 If it’s already in a public Pressbooks instance (like BCcampus), just clone it! 1.

Select ‘clone a book’ option under ‘My Catalog’

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Enter the URL of the source book

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Enter the URL you want the book to be cloned to

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Click ‘Clone it!’

Watch a demo video

Public Domain Books Many university courses focus on material that is in the public domain (published before 1923) or published under permissive licenses (i.e. government documents). You may consider building your own anthology or reader based on texts already included in Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, LibreTexts, Feedbooks, Open Culture, or Google Books. Much of the content found in these repositories can be imported into Pressbooks & edited or remixed. If you want help finding public domain content or have questions about copyright and fair use, ask a librarian!

At left: To search Google books for free eBooks on your topic, enter a search term [e.g. ‘Chaucer’] and select the ‘Books’ tab. If you select the ‘Tools’ option, several additional filters will appear. The first of these is a drop down menu which can filter for ‘Free Google eBooks.’

‘I Found Something I Want, Now What?’, Part 2 If it’s not already in Pressbooks, but you can get it in WXR, EPUB, ODT, DOCX, or HTML format, you can import it. 1.

Create a book: ‘Add a New Book’.

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Click ‘Import’ from the dashboard

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Select the file type, upload the file and follow the instructions.

Demo: Project Gutenberg ePUB import Note: There is a special import tool for OpenStax books. Contact Steel for help.

Questions? email: [email protected]

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