{"id":21,"date":"2020-02-18T18:46:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T23:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/front-matter\/why-pressbooks\/"},"modified":"2020-02-19T12:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T17:44:34","slug":"why-pressbooks","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/front-matter\/why-pressbooks\/","title":{"raw":"Why Pressbooks?","rendered":"Why Pressbooks?"},"content":{"raw":"<h1>You can visit this book at <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/\">https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox<\/a><\/h1>\r\n<h1>Pressbooks is a publishing platform.<\/h1>\r\n<h1>Why we use Pressbooks?<\/h1>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>It looks great on the web<\/li>\r\n \t<li>It looks great in print<\/li>\r\n \t<li>It exports easily to a variety of formats including PDFs[footnote]\"PDFs are where open[footnote]Open textbooks, or the more general OER or Open Educational Resources are books that are copyright free, normally available at low or no costs to students. Free and legal to share and modify. [\/footnote] textbooks go to die.\" Clint Lanonde, UBC and BCcampus Tech guru[\/footnote], Mobi for Kindle, etc.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>BCcampus[footnote]https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/[\/footnote]\u00a0preferred[footnote]BCcampus is funded by the Ministry of Advanced Skills and Training. https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/about-us\/[\/footnote] format\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/\">https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li>Based on WordPress[footnote]https:\/\/wordpress.org\/. 35% of the Web uses WordPress[\/footnote], so already familiar to many people.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Flexible<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Allows for integration with images, videos and H5P<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<h1>You can visit this book at <a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/\">https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox<\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Pressbooks is a publishing platform.<\/h1>\n<h1>Why we use Pressbooks?<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>It looks great on the web<\/li>\n<li>It looks great in print<\/li>\n<li>It exports easily to a variety of formats including PDFs<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"&quot;PDFs are where open[footnote]Open textbooks, or the more general OER or Open Educational Resources are books that are copyright free, normally available at low or no costs to students. Free and legal to share and modify.\" id=\"return-footnote-21-1\" href=\"#footnote-21-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a> textbooks go to die.\" Clint Lanonde, UBC and BCcampus Tech guru[\/footnote], Mobi for Kindle, etc.<\/li>\n<li>BCcampus<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/\" id=\"return-footnote-21-2\" href=\"#footnote-21-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0preferred<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"BCcampus is funded by the Ministry of Advanced Skills and Training. https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/about-us\/\" id=\"return-footnote-21-3\" href=\"#footnote-21-3\" aria-label=\"Footnote 3\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[3]<\/sup><\/a> format\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/\">https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Based on WordPress<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/. 35% of the Web uses WordPress\" id=\"return-footnote-21-4\" href=\"#footnote-21-4\" aria-label=\"Footnote 4\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[4]<\/sup><\/a>, so already familiar to many people.<\/li>\n<li>Flexible<\/li>\n<li>Allows for integration with images, videos and H5P<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-21-1\">\"PDFs are where open[footnote]Open textbooks, or the more general OER or Open Educational Resources are books that are copyright free, normally available at low or no costs to students. Free and legal to share and modify.  <a href=\"#return-footnote-21-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-21-2\">https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/ <a href=\"#return-footnote-21-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-21-3\">BCcampus is funded by the Ministry of Advanced Skills and Training. https:\/\/bccampus.ca\/about-us\/ <a href=\"#return-footnote-21-3\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 3\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-21-4\">https:\/\/wordpress.org\/. 35% of the Web uses WordPress <a href=\"#return-footnote-21-4\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 4\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":120,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-21","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21\/revisions\/61"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/21\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/abesandbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}