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LibreTexts News & Updates | February 2026
Greetings, LibreTexts Community!
Keep reading for the latest updates from the LibreTexts team.
Open Ed Week 2026 Right Around the Corner
OpenEd Week is almost here again (March 2-6, 2026). This year events hosted through the end of April will be included on the official OpenEd Week calendar hosted By OEGlobal (https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/). First up, join the LibreTexts team next week as we get back to basics:
March 2, 11-12 pm PST: Intro to the LibreTexts LibreVerse
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88093290911
If you've heard of LibreTexts but aren't quite sure where to start, this one's for you. Join a member of our team for a guided tour of the "LibreVerse," our full ecosystem of free, open tools we've built to support educators and students at every stage of their learning journey. We'll walk you through our repository of over a million pages of OER content; our Remixer that lets you take any of it and make it your own; Conductor and Workbench for keeping your projects and teams on track; ADAPT, our open homework and assessment platform; and more.
March 3, 10:30- 11:30 am PST: Open to All: Accessibility in the LibreVerse
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89121255927
Open education only works if everyone can access it. That's why LibreTexts is currently conducting a comprehensive accessibility audit of our platform and features, with the results shaping both our updated conformance documentation and a clear roadmap to remove barriers for students and content authors alike. Our goal is to meet or exceed the Revised 508 Standards and WCAG 2.1 AA because accessibility isn't a checkbox, it's a core part of what it means to build education that truly belongs to everyone. Accessibility conformance documentation is already available, and we encourage anyone who encounters an accessibility concern to report it directly to us. We also provide a full suite of authoring tools to help content creators build with accessibility in mind from the start.
March 4, 11- 12 pm PST: LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88519348751
ADAPT, LibreTexts’ open homework and assessment platform, is designed to do exactly that. Join our Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, for a guided tour of everything ADAPT has to offer:
- 240,000+ openly licensed questions
- Adaptive Learning Trees and personalized learning models
- Built-in analytics and an Early Warning System powered by predictive analytics
- Seamless LMS integration with Canvas and Blackboard
- Mobile clicker functionality right in your classroom
- Support for WebWork, IMathAS, H5P, and Native QTI
ADAPT is built to be more powerful than traditional publisher platforms and more affordable. Because the cost of a homework platform should never be a barrier to student success.
This is open education in action. Come see what it looks like.
March 4, 12-1 pm PST: ADAPT and AI: An Instructor's Success Story
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89100093681
This session demonstrates practical ways to build and deploy homework in LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK algorithmic problems.
WeBWorK uses a complex Perl-based language called PG, and writing questions in PG can be challenging. Most PG examples online focus on math, physics, and engineering. As a life science professor, I want to bridge that gap by bringing algorithmic biology problems, which are often more descriptive than numerical, into LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK.
In this session, I will show new instructors how to use AI to turn a conceptual homework idea into a fully functional WeBWorK problem, without needing to know how to code. The talk will demonstrate how large language model agents such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can produce working WeBWorK problems when given solid documentation and required to check output using a local renderer.
A brief course case study will show how a problem concept can become a working WeBWorK assignment through an iterative workflow.
March 5, 12-1 pm PST: A Community Like No Other: LibreTexts Academy and LibreNet Consortium
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84701203638
The LibreTexts Academy is the professional development hub of the LibreVerse, designed for faculty who are serious about open education but don’t have unlimited time to figure it all out alone. Whether you’re adopting an existing open textbook for the first time, or building a fully custom course from the ground up, the Academy meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go.
Monthly webinars, twice-weekly office hours, and self-paced training modules cover everything from getting started with ADAPT to remixing content to making your materials accessible. For those ready to go deeper, cohort programs, in-person workshops, and instructor certifications let you build real expertise and walk away with credentials to show for it.
The goal is simple: spend less time troubleshooting and more time teaching. Your students pay less. Your course feels like yours.
The LibreNet Consortium is a community of passionate educators dedicated to growing sustainable open education initiatives at their institutions. No matter where you are in your journey to bring down the cost of education, and create more equitable pathways for your students, the LibreNet Consortium provides the tools you need to ensure your efforts are sustainable for the road ahead.
Whether you connect with us through Academy or the LibreNet (or both!), you will join a community that’s been doing this work — together — for decades.
March 6, 11:30-12:30 pm PST: The Future is Now: LibreTexts and AI
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88328099160
AI and open education are converging, and LibreTexts is helping lead the way. Building on the launch of our AI Co-Author tool, the LibreTexts development team has introduced a comprehensive AI Initiative designed to embed intelligent, equity-centered tools throughout the LibreVerse ecosystem: context-aware tutors inside digital textbooks, automated homework generation, AI-assisted writing and research tools, and coding support within Jupyter environments. The goal is straightforward: reduce equity gaps, give instructors better tools for content creation and analytics, and make high-quality personalized learning available to everyone, not just those who can afford it. Grounded in LibreTexts' commitment to transparency and open education, this initiative is built to scale responsibly and work for every kind of learner.
Noteworthy
Chemistry Faculty Looking forward to BCCE 2026: Looking to present something you have done to reduce costs in a sustainable way in General, GOB, or Organic Chemistry? We would like to invite you to present in the BCCE 2026 Symposium:
Driving Systemic Change and Scalability: Evidence-Based, Low-Cost Curricula in Gateway Courses
There are slots for both standard 20 min presentations as well as Distillation talks to present just a snippet of your experiences to showcase your department as a "Distillation" talk.
We seek contributions that clearly articulate not only how costs have been reduced, but also how these practices align with established Chemical Education Research (CER) principles. Crucially, special attention will be given to proposals that demonstrate a framework for successful replication and provide evidence of active adoption or scaling across different institutional settings (e.g., community colleges, large R1 universities, or high schools). Topics may include assessment of OER effectiveness and dissemination, low-cost lab instrumentation and accompanying documentation, and sustainable digital tool alternatives. Submit your abstract for either a talk (20 minutes) or a Distillation (short 5-min presentations in groups of 4). https://conferences.union.wisc.edu/bcce2026/submit-an-abstract/
Our OctoberFest workshop was held in-person for the first time since 2019 on Monday, October 27 at the historic St. Cajetan's in the heart of the Metropolitan State University (MSU) campus in downtown Denver, CO. Thank you to our attendees, both in-person and online, who got an in-depth look at all the LibreVerse has to offer and asked insightful questions. Recordings of all of the sessions will be available on our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/libretexts) soon!
Since our start in 2008, the LibreTexts team has facilitated faculty collaborations across the country, helping instructors work together on building new course content while making powerful connections across institutions and disciplines. Making it easier for our community to work together and build their own communities starts here! Currently we have faculty looking to work on the following projects over the next year:
-- Introduction to Special Education for K-12 Classrooms - especially on describing how to implement best-practices in the classroom (textbook)
-- Organic Chemistry Structure-based Question Writing (using ADAPT Sketcher)
-- Voice and Video thread-based question writing for language courses (ADAPT Discuss-It)
If you are interested in any of these projects, or would you like us to look for collaborators for another OER Project, let us know by filling out our LibreTexts Academy Connections form: https://forms.gle/vAsRyJ1QzAKw1FUr5.
Is your institution part of our LibreNet consortium? If not, consider joining and become part of a growing community of OER practitioners and advocates unlike any other. More information about the numerous benefits of LibreNet membership can be found on our website.
Have you heard about our new professional development opportunities through LibreTexts Academy? From year long cohorts to asynchronous webinars, Academy has something for all of the OER advocates and practitioners in your life. Head over to our website and fill out an interest form to get started.
Don't forget about our First Friday Features held virtually the first Friday of each month. Join a member of our team at 11:30 am PST to hear all about what's new in the LibreVerse and what's coming soon. You can catch us on our regular Zoom channel: https://zoom.libretexts.org.
Be sure to follow us on social media to stay up-to-date on the latest LibreTexts news and events and share how you're using our resources to further your own open efforts. You can find us as @LibreTexts on Facebook, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Blue Sky.