Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Tag: educational technology

  • Getting Started with Pressbooks: A guide for Higher Education use cases

    For the past few years, I’ve been helping faculty and other subject experts at UW-Madison develop and publish openly licensed textbooks and other learning activities using Pressbooks, free and openly licensed software which was originally conceived by Hugh McGuire as a way to extend WordPress in order to publish electronic books. I began this work…

  • Core Principles for an eText Authoring Tool

    Core Principles for an eText Authoring Tool

    eText Authoring at UW-Madison About a year ago, I began thinking seriously about an eText authoring platform that could be used to write and publish openly-licensed texts. I work at a large research university in the American midwest, which means that a large percentage of my colleagues are engaged directly in both high-level academic research…