Choosing your OER Tools: A Tool Look Book
4.12 OER Platforms
Theresa Huff
Platforms
While we highly recommend using Pressbooks, there are other OER platforms that exist. In this section, we offer a comparative tool of various OER platforms and a closer look at two popular options: Pressbooks and Manifold.
OER Platform Comparisons
Finding the Right Platform (Guimont et al., 2023)
This tool, designed to help you choose an OER platform, includes the features and detailed comparisons of many OER platforms.
Pressbooks and Manifold
Open Education Global (OE Global)’s recent webinar (May 8, 2024) features two OER award winners (one in Pressbooks and one in Manifold). Each share their process, challenges and benefits of their platform, and answer questions.
Pressbooks vs. Manifold (University of Washington Libraries)
For those considering the OER platforms of Pressbooks or Manifold, here is a helpful side-by-side comparison of the two.
OE Global Award Winners
Open Education Global annually awards the best published OER. Below are recent award winners using both Manifold and Pressbooks platforms. See all past OE Global Award Winners.
Manifold Platform
About the Award Winner: HUM 1: Modern Humanities on Manifold – OE Awards for Excellence (oeglobal.org)
The OER: HUM 1: Modern Humanities | Manifold @CUNY (manifoldapp.org)
Pressbooks Platform
About the Award Winner: Liberated Learners – OE Awards for Excellence (oeglobal.org)
The OER: HUM 1: Modern Humanities | Manifold @CUNY (manifoldapp.org)
Resources
Ball, C. E., Guimont, C., & Vaughn, M. (2023). Finding the right platform: A crosswalk of academy-owned and open-source digital publishing platforms.
