Open Education Week | Creating Interactive Open Textbooks with Jupyter Books | 8 March

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With the increasing digitalisation of society, we observe that our students are turning towards interactive digital resources to supply themselves the information they need. Although academic literature (papers and textbooks) are engrained within our university education, they typically lack interactivity for students, and also for teachers who want to use this literature in an optimal way. In this session, Timon Idema (TNW) will present Jupyter Books as the emerging software to use for creating textbooks with interactive elements that can be published as open literature and adapted easily to meet the needs of a specific course. Jupyter Books is a software package that allows an author to build a textbook into an interactive website environment. The source of the information can be written in easy-to-learn markdown format, or converted directly from LaTeX or Word. By hosting the source on GitHub or GitLab, there is a low threshold for making additions and improvements to a textbook, it is easy for others to adopt (parts of) your textbook, and there is an accurate version control.

In this presentation, Timon will discuss how he came to Jupyter Books as the ideal software for creating interactive open textbooks, he will explain the process of creating such a textbook and he will present some of the basic templates, manuals and tools that he is designing for others to be able to work with it as well. He will also touch upon the collaboration with the TU Delft Library and central ICT services to make Jupyter Books into a university-wide supported software package.

At the end of this session, you will have learned the basics of what it takes to work with Jupyter Books, you will know how to get started yourself and what your interactive textbook might look like when you first publish it.
 

In short

Where. Teaching Lab Forum
When. Wednesday 8 March, 12:30 - 13:30 (lunch included)
What. Lunch lecture
Speaker. Timon Idema, Faculty of Applied Sciences

Background Open Education Week

Open Education Week is an annual celebration of the people and activities that apply open practices to education around the world.

Every year since 2012, events, activities, and challenges are held at schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and organisations by communities of teachers, librarians, students, policymakers, technologists, activists and enthusiasts. They spend one week in early March sharing, discussing and celebrating their contributions to Open Education, and encouraging more engagement and creation.

This Open Education Week 2023 (March 6-10) you can show the world how we are making a difference to education.

There are two ways to contribute to OE Week 2023. You can contribute by sharing the details of the Activities you are hosting during Open Education Week and you can contribute by sharing the Open Assets or resources you have created (this automatically adds them to the OE Week Library).