OER Under the Hood [CCCOER Edition]: Vocational Publishing with Pressbooks

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In this next session of our OER Under the Hood webinar series co-produced wtth Pressbooks, we’re also offering this as a Community College Consortium for OER (CCCOER) webinar to explore how open educational resources can be used to support hands-on, career-focused learning in vocational and technical fields.

Introduction to Welding textbook cover

Our featured project will be Introduction to Welding, a richly illustrated open textbook developed through the Washington Open ProfTech project. Created by experienced instructors, the book introduces students to welding careers, safety practices, tools, welding techniques, cutting processes, inspection, and materials—designed to meet the needs of learners and align with real-world industry expectations.

:date: When: 2025-09-17T19:00:00Z→2025-09-17T20:00:00Z
:pen: Participate: Register to attend via zoom
:tv: Watch All in Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLze0jtuKTgpGJynjB74v4eVJe23MMORrC
:link: Info: https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/oer-under-the-hoodvocational-publishing-with-pressbooks/

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I was there for a planning session yesterday with @heatherb and our welding instructors and authors Douglas and David, and can say this is going to be a really great conversation and look under the hood into the creation of Introduction to Welding.

As a bonus for anyone here, Ashley Montenegro Ramirez, project manager from the Community and Technical Colleges of Washington, shared that all of the open licensed images used in the book (more than 200(), have also been made available as a collection in Flickr.

And for more titles in this genre, note that BCcampus has published 56 open textbooks in the trades