We are excited to integrate Vera Kennedy's Sociology text, Beyond Race - Cultural Influences on Human Social Life into the Social Sciences library.
LibreTexts has partnered with Edfinity to provide open, affordable homework and testing solutions to accompany the wide range of instructional resources available on the LibreTexts platform.
Today we are highlighting Lead Analyst for the Center for Educational Effectiveness at the University of California, Davis, Meryl Motika. In her own words:
The Affordable College Textbook Act behind the $5 million grant LibreTexts received in fall of 2018 has been reintroduced in Congress by Senators Dick Drubin (D-IL), Tina Smith (D-MN), Angus King (I-ME), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO). Aimed at reducing the increasing cost of textbooks for students, the bill aims to promote and spread the use of open educational resources (OER). For more information, visit SPARC's Policy & Advocacy website.
Greetings OER and OpenEd advocates! The LibreTexts team is thrilled to announce that print copies of LibreTexts resources are now available! A typical 500 page book can be printed and bound in softcover for only $12; a hardbound copy printed in color can be obtained for $35. All cost is dedicated to printing the resource; LibreTexts does not generate a profit from print copies. Visit our new download center to get started!
In conjunction with Open Education Week 2019, SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, released a new Impact Story titled Student Savings at Scale: LibreTexts. In it, 21 year old Junior at the University of Illinois, Springfield, Hailey Hollinshead, relates her experience in a course utilizing a LibreTexts: “It was so much easier to navigate and search for topics. At the end of each section, there were interactive problems to solve.” Check out the entire story on the SPARC website here.