Introduction

Chikako Cooke

Introduction

*This book is not completed yet. Only partial workbook is visible for now.

About This Workbook

This workbook is designed for the learners who use “YOOKOSO! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese” which the Japanese program at the University of Texas at Austin has been using for years; however, any beginners can practice basic Japanese since the content is very similar to most beginner textbooks.

This experimental OER material for Japanese classes at UT was made possible by a Teaching Innovation Grant by the Center for Teaching Learning at the University of Texas at Austin.

Aim

This is a pilot project using OER materials in the beginner’s Japanese class at the University of Texas at Austin. In lieu of saving students’ money for the materials, this workbook project is our first step towards OER. In fact, there are not many Japanese OER textbooks in the OER depositories platforms such as MERLOT, COERLL, OER Commons yet^[1]. Therefore, in the future, we hope that there will be a larger collaboration of OER Japanese teaching textbooks/ workbooks among Japanese instructors from various institutions which would be available as an alternate or supplement to traditional published textbooks/ workbooks.

Pressbooks

This workbook uses Pressbooks and H5P that is built in the Pressbooks. Pressbooks OER was introduced by Former Librarian Ashley Morrison from the the OERs at the UT Libraries.