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Open Education without the Profit

These Will Always Be Free

We are an Open Content Library and will remain so. We are committed to having high-quality materials created by faculty and used in courses available for free for anyone to use. As has long been one of our mantras: FREE THE TEXTBOOK!

Although there is a limit to the number of Customized Textbooks an institution can publish, LibreNet Consortium Membership is low-cost and allows for unlimited custom textbooks and access to other training, support, and marketing materials!

Learn about the LibreNet Consortium

Textbook access is Free

Instructor access to ADAPT is Free

Publishing a General-Use Textbook is Free

Authoring H5P Materials is Free

Authoring ADAPT Questions is Free

Up to 5 custom textbooks from an institution is Free

Best Value

All-Access

30$/ 6 months

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  • Includes unlimited student access to ADAPT Homework, Jupyter Hub, and The Forge.

  • As with any of our student-access services, this price is NOT by course, but by student. If a student has ADAPT homework for 3 classes, then the price does not change.

  • This is ideal for institutions who are adopting a Zero-Textbook Cost program across the campus. Single per-student cost gives full access to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of software for teaching.

Institution

LibreNet Consortium

2500$/ year

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  • Allows for unlimited custom textbooks at an institution.

  • Early Access to New Technologies.

  • Includes a Branded Institution Campus Commons Page.

  • Two seats at LibreTexts Academy Online training.

ADAPT

15$/ 6 months

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  • Homework, Formative Assessment, Threaded Audio/Visual Discussion, Learning Trees, graded H5P, organic structure grading.

  • CALIFORNIA: Because of the investment by the State of California in reducing costs by supporting the development of ADAPT, the cost to California institutions for ADAPT is FREE.

  • Student access to ADAPT includes unlimited numbers of courses. Thus: if a student is taking 3 classes that all use ADAPT, the cost does not change.

The Forge

15$/ 6 months

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  • Student writing platform for recording writing activities over time.

  • Includes Word Processor, Slide Deck Authoring, and Spreadsheets.

  • Collect analytics on the writing and creation process over time to focus on the process over the product of authoring (address issues with generative AI)

  • Like the all-in-one package, this is for unlimited numbers of courses that use The Forge.

Jupyter Hub

15$/ 6 months

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  • Allow students in data science, computer science, and other courses that use basic coding to create collaborative notebooks.

  • Like the all-in-one package, this is for unlimited numbers of courses that use Jupyter Hub.