Book Title: Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide

Subtitle: A Guide to Authoring & Adapting Open Textbooks

Author: Ryerson University

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Book Description: This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the Pressbooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book is community members at Ryerson University, Ontario who are interested in creating Open Educational Resources; however, there may be content within this book that is useful to others working on similar Open Educational Resource initiatives.

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Book Description

This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the PressBooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book are faculty at Ryerson University, Ontario who are participating in the eCampusOntario Open Content Initiative. However, there may be content within this book that is useful to others working on similar Open Educational Resource initiatives.

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This book is a cloned version of Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide by Ryerson University, published using Pressbooks by Ryerson University under a CC BY (Attribution) license. It may differ from the original.

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Ryerson University

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Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide Copyright © 2017 by Ryerson University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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Title
Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide
Author
Ryerson University
Contributors
Ann Ludbrook; Michelle Schwartz; Sally Wilson; and Tony Bates
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Ryerson Open Textbook Authoring Guide Copyright © 2017 by Ryerson University is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Unless otherwise noted, this book is released under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 Unported license. Under the terms of the CC-BY license you can freely share, copy or redistribute the material in any medium or format, or adapt the material by remixing, transforming or modifying this material providing you attribute Ryerson University. Attribution means you must give appropriate credit to Ryerson University as the original creator, note the CC-BY license this document has been released under, and indicate if you have made any changes to the content. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests Ryerson University endorses you or your use of this work.

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Publisher
Ryerson University
Publication Date
January 27, 2017