Create Open Textbooks

Getting Started

Creating an open textbook is easy. Creating something that others will use is challenging. Creating a resource that provides lasting value is an accomplishment.

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Useful resources

We have created a robust selection of toolkits and guides to help you find, use, and modify open educational resources (OER) for your classroom.

Guides and Toolkits


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Pressbooks Guide


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OER Student Toolkit


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Working Group Guide

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Using Pressbooks

We’ve created an excellent collection of training tools to help you use Pressbooks, an open source, online authoring and publishing platform, to create and adapt open textbooks.

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Open educational resources (OER) toolkits

Refer to these useful guides to learn more about self-publishing, adopting, and adapting open textbooks and other OER.