About Us
Teachers’ educational assistance for interactive hands-on browser-based online open knowledge for students
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We are TeachBooks
Starting from the need to share educational materials at Delft University of Technology in various forms with students, we have started a open-source platform for all teachers and student assistants to collaborate and share interactive textbooks.
Our philosophy is to make it possible, practical and fun for all teaching teams, regardless of experience to create online, open and interactive content. Although TeachBooks can be made by individuals, we’ve seen that a team of teachers and student assistants can make a TeachBook that is more accessible, attractive, and interactive than any single person could make when working independently. Teams can work together on discipliinary content and innovative features, collaboratively creating a meaningful learning experience.
We’d like to share our experiences and platforms with anyone. We also like to learn and promote your content. TeachBook features this as well! So whether your teaching team is unfamiliar and lost in the nerdy world of interactive books, or whether you’re an expert having created your own library of TeachBooks with custom features: share and collaborate with the biggest and most effective teaching team you were ever part of!
How TeachBooks Works
The number of tools and skills needed to build a Jupyter Book for the first time, let along edit and maintain it, can be overwhelming. On the other hand, most of them are quite simple, and are easy to pick up slowly over time. Therefore, TeachBooks creates products to make the start as smooth as possible: a template and a manual. These are things that anyone can start with, regardless of experience.
How to collaboratively create books
Working together to create new books or improve existing ones is so much fun! TeachBooks aims to make this easier through a structured process, combining Git and our tools to streamline book-editing. In fact, it can be boiled down to a few key steps: the TeachBooks workflow, illustrated here. These steps are designed to be accessible to anyone, no matter their experience level, as part of the book-writing process.
OUR STORY
the first teachbook
Staff at Delft University of Technology discovered the concept of interactive books and created our very first TeachBook, marking the start of our journey.
teachbooks first used in a classroom
TeachBooks made its classroom debut in Delft University of Technology, helping students and teachers in a real-world learning environment.
the mude book
A customised TeachBook was created for the Modelling, Uncertainty and Data for Engineering course, featuring dynamic figures, interactive tests, and tailored content.
Platform and Template Launch
We officially launched the TeachBooks platform and released our first template book, making it easier to create and collaborate.
ADoption and development
The TeachBooks community started to grow with many users and a few key developers taking their role
Open-Education ImpulsE FUNDING
Fuelled by an funding from the Open Education / Open Science program of Delft University of Technology, multiple tools have been developed/improved and many visualisations for both outreach and the manual were created. This funding has been continued in 2025 to further support TeachBook’s activities.