Happy Thursday, OER and OpenEd advocates! Today in our Getting to Know the LibreTexts team we'd like to introduce you to Dr. Kathryn Haas.
Professor Paul Thornton from University of Hawaii Maui College has already saved his students nearly $2500 by adopting an open textbook for his Psychology 212: Research Methods course. The text, a collaborative effort by Rajiv Jhangiani, Carrie Cuttler, and Dana C. Leighton, truly "belongs to the commons" according to Jhangiani.
More exciting news from the LibreTexts Tech Team: our Jupyter Hub is now live and ready for beta testing! Are you a member of the UC Davis community, or a LibreTexts contributor? Check out the brand new hub here.
Questions? Contact the team at: [email protected].
Chancellor Brian King of Sacramento City College gave a shout out to LibreTexts in the college's Fall 2019 convocation. Holding a print version of an Oragnic Chemistry LibreText curated by Sac City faculty Dianne Bennet, Chancellor King received an audible gasp from the audience when he told them the book in his hand cost around $10 and was freely available online. The text, which took around 16 faculty five years to curate, has already saved Organic Chemistry students at Sac City over $200,000.
Hello, LibreTexts followers! It's that time of the week again. This week, get to know Philip J. Reid, a member of the LibreTexts general advisory board.
Greetings, Open Ed and OER advocates! This week in our "Getting to Know" the LibreTexts team series we'd like to introduce you to Kate Graham.
Greetings, Open Ed advocates! As we gear up for the start of a new school year, here at LibreTexts we are starting up our "getting to know the team" series again. First up, Layne Morsch, Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois, Springfield.
A group of 30 faculty in myriad disciplines from across the Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) came together June 4 to create, curate and implement open educational resources in their classes. The five-hour OER Hackathon, sponsored by the LibreTexts OER US Department of Education grant, enabled instructors and librarians to work collaboratively as well as independently in a day designed to minimize presentations and maximize results results.
Greeting, LibreTexts fans and followers! The LibreTexts project is growing exponentially thanks to OER and open ed advocates across the country. Have you been following our progress from the sidelines but are ready to learn more? Would you like to learn how to create or remix your own OER on the LibreTexts platform? Still have questions about upcoming projects in the Libreverse? Join us for our weekly office hours! Same time, new URL: