Thanks to the success of LibreFest 2020 earlier this year, the LibreTexts team is already hard at work planning the next installment which will run right before the OpenEd 20 conference, from November 4-6. Registration is free.
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Dr. Kate Plass, Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College, found herself Googling resources for students in her general, inorganic, and materials Chemistry courses to use in place of expensive texts when she ran across the LibreTexts Chemistry library. What began as a search for materials for her students to use became a desire to contribute to the growing collection of OER in Chemistry.
Greetings, LibreTexts followers. Welcome to our new faculty profile series. For our first installment we'd like to introduce you to Professor Kristin Kuter, Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana.
In light of the recent protests surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, we at LibreTexts are compelled to lend our voice to support the thousands of peaceful protestors taking to the streets across the country in order to initiate long overdue changes regarding how society treats our communities of color.
The LibreTexts team is proud of the progress our project has made since its inception 15 years ago. Since then, it has grown to become the most popular Open Education Resource (OER) textbook project on the net with over 500,000 pages of freely-accessible content, over 800 textbooks on our Bookshelves, and many more customized texts in our campus Course Shells. We regularly add new interactive features and are proud to provide increased accessibility of our resources to better support the academic community.
Virtually hosted by Hope College July 16-17, 2020
Justin Shorb and Brent Krueger from Hope College in collaboration with Paul Seeburger from Rochester Community College and other LibreTexts Development team members will host an online workshop to help new users of LibreTexts incorporate the Open Education Resource (OER) platform in their courses. Are you
Due to the ongoing COVID19 emergency, LibreTexts usage has grown substantially. The LibreTexts team is instituting new procedure to handle the increased volume of requests for accounts. While OER content hosted on the LibreTexts platform is completely free for faculty, students, and educators to use, new Instructors and Construction Teams require freely available accounts to customize texts (remixes), set up a course shells for your institution, or put a new course into an existing shell.
The LibreText Project is receiving a $1 million Innovation Grant from the California Learning Lab. This award aims to increase student success by creating a freely available open-education-resource adaptive learning platform and by developing editable, culturally responsive learning and homework modules for introductory Chemistry courses.
Every member of the LibreTexts team is an academic - we are faculty, we are students, and we are librarians. As such, we are in the proverbial trenches with other academics in adjusting to the ever changing realities of the COVID-19 virus to our academic mission.
The LibreTexts team is here for you.
Update: All Open Ed Week webinars are now available on the LibreTexts YouTube Channel.
Greetings, LibreTexts fans and followers! As our contribution to OpenEd Week this year (March 2-6), the LibreTexts team has put together a schedule of webinars on how faculty from a variety of disciplines are using our platform to create and disseminate open content.