Advances in web technologies have made it possible to democratize the production of open, reusable, remixable textbooks without sacrificing quality. The panelists will actively demonstrate three advances made possible by new web technologies: 1. User-friendly authoring tools that make it easy to produce and adapt remixable open textbooks. 2. An innovative production pipeline that enables beautiful and engaging textbook content to be distributed seamlessly to any student on any device in many formats. 3. New interactive content visualizations that enable students to interact with their books, explore rich data sets without downloading specialized tools, and view beautiful figures in printed media without additional work. The panel will explore examples from Connexions, Siyavula, Booktype, Quadbase, and FullMarks.

1. Advances in Open Textbook
Publishing Technology
User-friendly authoring, innovative
production pipleline, interactive content,
and community authoring through sprints.
Kathi Fletcher, Ed Woodward, Phil Schatz
and Adam Hyde
kathi.fletcher@gmail.com, ecw1@rice.edu, phil@cnx.org, adam.hyde@sourcefabric.org

2. Write Once, Share Everywhere
Anything in Edit & Adapt Everything out
Formats in: Word,
OpenOffice
Google Docs, LaTeX
Web pages, blogs, slides
Problem Sets
Multimedia
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video

3. remix.oerpub.org
Perhaps start with a Google Doc

4. remix.oerpub.org
Convert the Google doc to common format

5. remix.oerpub.org
Edit and adapt (including math) for a textbook

6. remix.oerpub.org
add some description to help others find it

7. remix.oerpub.org
publish (shown here at cnx.org)

8. What makes this possible?
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HTML5 format (language of the web)
Publish to web Print
Edit in browser Publish to
ebook
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video

9. What makes this possible?

HTML5 format (language of the web)
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Separate structure and style

10. User friendly authoring
as much like word/gdocs as possible
More info: bit.ly/editor-design

11. User friendly authoring
drag and drop examples, exercies, support all
learners with accessible images, tables, media
More info: bit.ly/editor-design

12. User friendly authoring
simple math editing
More info: bit.ly/editor-design

13. What makes this possible?

HTML5 format (language of the web)

Separate structure and style
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Community : Components, APIs, Open
Source, Embeddable editor
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video

14. What makes this possible?

HTML5 format (language of the web)

Separate structure and style

Community : Components, APIs, Open
Source, Embeddable editor
– Connexions, Siyavula, OERPUB, Booktype,
Aloha
– Interest From
• Bookshare, VIBAL, Pressbooks, Polish
Foundation, and more
More info: bit.ly/fletcher-video

15. Device Demo
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Collaborative Statistics

16. Collaborative Statistics
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Derived Copy Locations

17. Collaborative Statistics
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Adoption Locations – US and Canada

18. Collaborative Statistics
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On a Nook Reader

19. College Physics

20. College Physics
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Connexions Android app
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Nexus 7

21. College Physics
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Browser
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Nexus 7

22. College Physics
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QuizCards Android app
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Nexus 4

23. College Physics - QuizCards

24. College Physics
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iPhone

25. College Physics - iPad