• Bookdown Workshop
  • Workshop Description
    • Workshop Learning Outcomes
    • Workshop Agenda Topics
    • Workshop Presentation
  • 1 What Is Bookdown?
    • Overview
    • Process
  • 2 Bookdown Advantages
    • Overview
    • Accessible
    • Features
    • Appearance
    • Design
    • Integration
    • Reproducible
  • 3 Getting Started
    • Creating your Bookdown course
      • R & RStudio
      • Git, GitHub, GitHub Desktop
      • Atom
    • Creating Your Book from a GitHub Repository
    • Creating a Book in RStudio
    • Making Edits to Book
  • 4 Resources
    • Bookdown resources
    • Tutorial Videos:
  • 5 Sample Course Books
    • TWU Courses:
  • 6 Sample CourseBook Introduction
    • Course Description
    • Course Learning Outcomes
    • Course Activities/Requirements
    • Determination Of Final Grade
    • Course Topics
    • Course Resources
    • Course Navigation
      • Course Units
      • Course Activities
      • How To Navigate This Book
    • Writing Standards
  • 7 Unit Template
    • Overview
    • Topics
    • Learning Outcomes
    • Activity Checklist
    • 7.1 Topic Title
      • 7.1.1 Activity: Introductory Readings & Video
    • 7.2 Topic 2 Title
      • 7.2.1 Activity: Video
    • 7.3 Topic 3 Title
      • 7.3.1 Activity: Video
    • Unit 1 Summary
    • Assessment
    • Checking your Learning
  • 8 Sample Engagement Invite
    • Course Communities
    • Communication Tools
  • 9 Assessment Samples
    • Assignment: Company Website Analysis
      • Company Website Analysis Rubric
  • Published with bookdown

Share Access! Using Bookdown to Remove Barriers and Open Up Learning

5 Sample Course Books

One of the best ways to learn bookdown is to browse some of the books out there. Bookdown.org lists a number of example Bookdown courses and books. Below are some of my favourites, and some features to explore.

  1. On The Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and its Suburbs.
    • See the interactive map in Chapter 2
  2. R Module 1
    • See special boxes
  3. Science Research Methods: Tutorials
    • See integration of H5P
  4. Applied Social Network Analysis in Education
    • See embedded Padlet
  5. SOC 4015 & 5050: Quantitative Analysis 
    • example of a syllabus on Bookdown
  6. Learning Analytics
    • See Weekly Participation graphic
  7. APS 135: Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis with R
    • See examples of graphs and plots 
  8. Teaching Tech Together
    • See Learning Activities and Concept Maps
  9. What they forgot to teach you about teaching R
    • See slides using Flipbook
  10. Reproducible Research in R
    • See linked schedule
  11. Data Visualization
    • This is in the Tufte format. See notes and graphs in margins

TWU Courses:

  • TWU Bookdown Course Template
  • LDRS 664: Creating Authentic Learning Communities
  • LDRS 591: Scholarly Inquiry
  • LDRS 663: Effective Coaching for Transformational Learning in Blended Learning Environments