The Open Education Alberta (OEA) Pressbooks program promotes the development of shared Open Educational Resources (OER) through access to a shared hosted Pressbook platform licensed by The Alberta Library (TAL). 13 Alberta institutions are currently participating.
How to Join
Institutions must be TAL and OEA members to participate in the Open Education Alberta Pressbooks Program.
Institutions can join Open Education Alberta as general community of practice members at any time, for no charge.
To join, email the OEA Steering Committee at contact@openeducationalberta.ca.
Participating Institutions
Pressbooks Organizations
- Bow Valley College
- Burman University
- Keyano College
- King’s University
- Medicine Hat College
- Mount Royal University
- NAIT
- NorQuest College
- Red Deer Polytechnic
- Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
- University of Alberta
- University of Calgary
- University of Lethbridge
Non Pressbooks Organizations
- Athabasca University (Community of practice member)
- MacEwan University (Community of practice member)
Governance
Steering Committee
- Michelle Brailey (Co-Chair)
- Sarah Adams (Co-Chair)
- Robert Lawson
- Sona Macnaughton
- Melanie Forrest
Previous Steering Committee Members
- Michele Pagliuso (2025)
- Erik Christiansen (2022-2024)
- Sonya Betz (2023-2024)
- Jessica Norman (2021-2023)
- Christie Hurrell (2021-2022)
- Kalin Jensen (2021-2022)
- Sarah Shaughnessy (2023-2024)
Other Project Groups
- Network Manager Support Team (2024 – Present)
- By-Laws & Administration (2024 – Present)
- Outreach (2024 – Present)
- Sustainability Committee (2022 – 2024)
Project History
Open Education Alberta was launched in 2020 by the Alberta OER Technology and Infrastructure Working Group, a community of practice that was formed in 2019, which brought together institutional representatives from Mount Royal University, MacEwan University, University of Calgary, University of Lethbridge, University of Alberta and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology to contribute their vision to this program.
From 2020 – 2024, the University of Alberta hosted OEA’s Pressbooks platform and guided administrative activities to support the publishing program. With growing Pressbooks program partners, OEA struck a Sustainability Committee in 2022 to explore a more collaborative approach between members. In Summer 2024, OEA moved to a Pressbooks-hosted model with new project groups to collectively support the continued administrative activities with and for OEA members. At the same time, OEA membership also expanded to include other institutions interested and involved in OER publishing separate from the established Pressbooks Publishing Program.