OpenLearn vs Pressbooks
OpenLearn
open.edu
Pressbooks
pressbooks.comSide by side
| Figure | OpenLearn | Pressbooks |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $10/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 7 |
| Spec score · Open Educational Resource Platforms | 7.6 (#15) | 8.6 (#5) |
| Accessibility | OpenLearn reports that its website is partially compliant with WCAG 2.2 AA and notes accessibility issues in some legacy images and interactive activities. | Pressbooks says its platform helps creators meet accessibility standards and its paid plans can produce WCAG 2.2 compliant books. |
| Founded | 2006 | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Support | For content problems, OpenLearn directs users to email [email protected] with details of the issue. | Enterprise customers receive personalized onboarding, end-user training, troubleshooting, responsive service, and webinars. |
| What it does | OpenLearn is a free learning platform delivered by The Open University. | Pressbooks is a WordPress Multisite based book content-management system for publishing webbooks and exporting books to digital, print and XML formats. |
Plans
Pressbooks
- Free TrialFree
- Single Author$12 a month
- Collaboration$40 a month
- Single Author$120 a year
- Collaboration$400 a year
- Institutional Network$5,999 a year
- Shared Network$15,999 a year
In their own words
OpenLearn
OpenLearn is a free web learning platform delivered by The Open University. It offers courses, articles, quizzes, interactive games, videos and audio across many subjects, with short courses described as taking 1 to 24 hours. The listed Free courses plan includes nearly 1,000 courses at free. After completion, learners can download a free Statement of Participation, and some courses award a digital badge. OpenLearn courses do not carry formal credit toward a qualification. A free account enables enrolment, progress tracking and activity-record downloads; general content is available without an account, though users must be at least 13 to create one. Materials can be shared through other learning systems in IMS Common Cartridge, HTML and Moodle formats. OpenLearn says its software tools are open source and its main learning environments use Moodle and Drupal. The site reports partial WCAG 2.2 AA compliance, with issues in some legacy images and interactive activities. It was founded in 2006 and is based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes.
Pressbooks
Pressbooks has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.