One Button Publishing• Brad Payne & Clint Lalonde• WordPress in Higher Education• May 29, 2014

@clintlalonde @bdolor

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“Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework”

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Open Education

Student Services & Data Exchange

Collaborative Programs & Shared Services

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“Connect the expertise, programs, and resources of all BC post-secondary institutions under a collaborative service delivery framework”

Open Education1 Support & promote the development & use of Open Educational ResourcesSupport instructors who want to use technology in their teaching practice

OER Global Logo by Jonathas Mello is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

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“Open Educational Resources (OERs) are any type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely copy, use, adapt and re-share them.”

UNESCOhttp://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/what-are-open-educational-resources-oers/

What are OER?

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Open Licenses

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Visual notes of John Yap announcement, Giulia Forsythe http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/8094691691/Used under CC-BY-SA license

40 free and open textbooks available for the highest enrolled 1st & 2nd year post-secondary subjects in BC

First province in Canada

BC Open Textbook Project

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We have a problem (2 actually)

Images: http://www.openeducation.net/2009/09/17/beyond-textbooks-andy-chlup-discusses-digital-learning-models/ used under CC-BY license

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Students spend $1200/yr on textbooks

4x rate of inflation over past 20 years

70% students have not purchased textbook for a course because of price

Problem #1

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Free is more than just a good deal

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Problem #2 Ownership & Control

iPod DRM by *n3wjack's world in pixels used under CC-BY-SA license

eBook on eBook by DWRL at U Texas used under CC-BY-SA-NC license

Students

Faculty ©

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Issues & Goals

Students Faculty

FreeChoice of formats● Web● Mobile● Print● eBook

Can retain permanently

1. Easy to find2. Quality

3. Modify or create

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Additional Software Requirements

● Web based authoring - distributed collaboration● Open Source● Extensible & Customizable● Remix different formats● Output many formats - HTML, ePub, PDF, mobi● Support open licenses (Creative Commons)

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Contenders

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PressBooks

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Faculty: Modify

Write Once

Publish Many

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PressBooks

PressBooks.com

https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbookshttps://wordpress.org/plugins/pressbooks/

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PressBooks: What it does

● Export engine● Custom book themes● Modifies WP admin interface● Changes from Post paradigm to Chapter paradigm● One book, one site (require multi-site)

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PressBooks: Root

One Book, One Site

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API

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Faculty: Easy to find & evaluate

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Faculty: Easy to find & evaluate

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Student: Entry point to book

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PressBooks: Book Example

http://opentextbc.ca/modernphilosophy/

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PressBooks “book”

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PressBooks Book admin

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PressBooks Book admin: Text

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PressBooks Book admin: Book Info

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PressBooks Book admin: Themes

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PressBooks Book admin: Export

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PressBooks: Considerations

● Uses commercial PDF engine (PrinceXML)● Requires standalone multi-site instance of

WP

PressBooks modifications

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Context

PressBooks is open source

• modifications were only possible within this context

• the narratives for open textbooks and open software are similar

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The Button

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Modifications

PressBooks and PressBooks Textbook

• What functionality is required for open textbooks?o about 16,500 code additions to PB core

• What if that functionality deviates from pressbooks.com?

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Symbiosis

PressBooks and PressBooks Textbook

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Reuse - PBT Plugin

Creative Commons

• the creative commons configurator • modifications made to allow derivative works

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Revise - PBT plugin

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Revise - PBT Plugin

Adapt, Adjust, Modify

• math equations - PB LaTeX plugin• table buttons - MCE Table button plugin• textbook buttons - MCE Textbook button plugin

o exercises (with LRMI metadata)o key takeaways (with LRMI metadata)o learning objectives (with LRMI metadata)

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Revise - PBT Plugin

LaTeX image rendering service:

Preserving images in export routine:

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Remix - PBT Plugin

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Remix - PBT Plugin

Importer

• EPUB• DOCX• ODT• WXR/XML

Open Textbooks

• Download links to 47 open textbooks

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Remix - PBT Plugin

Pseudocode (DOCX import):

- test if it’s a valid Zip file

- get the file paths to content and metadata

- get the content and metadata

- get endnotes, footnotes, and hyperlinks

- process them (they are in separate documents),save them

- import a monstrous XSLT stylesheet

- throw the styled content into the DOM

- parse by Chapter, insert into PB

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Redistribute/Retain - PBT Plugin

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Redistribute/Retain - PBT Plugin

Textbook API

• the solution to the problem of redistributing protected files got me thinking about how to implement textbook API’s

Redistribute and retain files for free

• Download links to each of the latest export files (epub, pdf, xhtml, hpub, mobi, wxr, icml) on the homepage

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Redistribute/Retain - PBT Plugin

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Download, import, reorder chapters

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The future

Enabling Adaptation

Development of PB Community (Developer & User)● https://github.com/BCcampus/pressbooks-textbook● https://github.com/pressbooks/pressbooks

Continued EDU & OTB specific enhancements

Thank YouQuestions?

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