Important notice: open textbooks have moved

The B.C. Open Textbook Collection was archived on February 1, 2024. Find textbooks and full course material packages in our new, streamlined collection for educators.

Go to the B.C. Open Collection

The BCcampus Open Education Self-Publishing Guide is an excellent resource to help you plan, prepare, write, and publish an open textbook.

Open Education at BCcampus

At BCcampus, we’re using open technologies to facilitate, evaluate, and create open educational resources to share across the province and around the world; saving millions of student-dollars through hundreds of open textbooks adopted in thousands of classrooms:

Stats for BC Institutions

43

Institutions

Stats for BC Faculty

972

Faculty

Stats for BC Students

322,389

Students

Stats for BC Savings

$38,042,577

Savings

The high cost of educational resources and textbooks creates a serious obstacle to the access of post-secondary education.

Getting Started


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Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition


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Adoption Guide - 2nd Edition


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Self-Publishing Guide


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Working Group Guide