Media and digital literacies in Canadian teacher educators’ open educational practices: A post-intentional phenomenology

PDF - glossary item

PDF refers to portable document formats and is the world-wide standard for electronic document publication. This format standardizes the reading and formatting options when sharing documents, keeping fonts, images, and spacing in consistent locations on the 'page' of the electronic document. Developed in the early 1990s, this format for document publication can be created from many other text or image production software programs but requires proprietary Adobe software for editing and revision. While still frequently used in educational contexts, particularly for article publication and reading, for the purposes of open educational practices the PDF format is contentious as it is not considered as OER since it cannot be revised.

Reference: Definition of PDF. (n.d.). PCMAG. Retrieved June 21, 2023, from https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/pdf
 

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