Textbooks in browsers: An editor for creating, adapting, and sharing

Abstract

OERPUB is creating an open-source editor for textbook authoring that lets authors create, adapt, and remix textbooks that display well in the browser, on mobile devices, and in print. The editor supports mathematics, accessible images and tables, and structured features like definitions and exercises, using a constrained subset of HTML5. We just got back from South Africa where teachers sprinted to create two new high school textbooks in Chemistry and Physics using original content and content from Siyavula and OpenStax College textbooks. We will demonstrate the editor and report on the textbook sprint in South Africa.