Maricopa Open Digital (MOD) Press

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The Maricopa Open Digital (MOD) Press, using the PressbooksEDU ebook publishing platform, supports students, faculty, and staff across the Maricopa County Community College District in the discovery, sharing, and creation of digital publications, including faculty-authored and remixed open educational resources.

PressbooksEDU is used by a variety of institutions across the world to make knowledge accessible beyond the traditional boundaries of the classroom. Publications shared on the MOD Press are not only available openly online, but can also be exported in multiple formats for use as ebooks or for print-on-demand.

For more information:

Pressbooks, visit https://pressbooks.com/about 

Open Maricopa OER project, visit maricopa.edu/oer 

Pressbooks offers webinars each month.  Register for an upcoming Pressbooks webinar.

Here are some Pressbooks training videos from the Open Textbook Network.

These three 1-hour Pressbooks training sessions covered how to:

• Use Pressbooks for OER publishing

• Build a structured textbook

• Add interactivity using plugins

Need additional resources?  Check out the following guides to creating open education resources:

• The Growing Guide to Maricopa Open Digital Press 

• The Rebus Guide to Publishing Open Textbooks (So Far) 

• Rebus Office Hours – a YouTube Playlist

Don’t reinvent the wheel.  Search for existing Open Education Resource at one of the following sites:

• Pressbooks Directory

• SUNY Geneseo’s OASIS Search

• George Mason University OER Metafinder

• OER Commons

• Libretexts

• OpenStax

• The Open Textbook Library

Are you looking for H5P interactive media?  Check out:

• eCampusOntario H5P Studio

Get to know the OER Librarian and the Network Manager for your location.

Be on the lookout for additional professional development opportunities offered by Open Maricopa and the Maricopa Center for Learning and Innovation (requires MCCCD authentication).