While it has been demonstrated that the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) can improve educational outcomes for students, it can often be difficult to implement due to a variety of technical barriers (including the accessibility of editing original files and sharing curated materials).

This session will introduce participants to Pressbooks, an innovative and easy to use online tool for creating OER textbooks, and the process of using it to create a play anthology for an online theater history course using materials from the public domain. Through a discussion of a grant funded project that leveraged staff and faculty collaboration, presenters will share the process they used to collaborate on creating this OER textbook. Participants will consider how they could use this technology in their own contexts and identify methods and processes for implementing public domain content in the development of OER and ensuring its accessibility.