Happy Friday, OER and OpenEd advocates! Today’s installment in the Getting to Know the LibreTexts team is brought to you by Larry Green, Statistics and Mathematics faculty at Lake Tahoe Community College. In his own words: I began creating OER for mathematics in 1995, before the terms “OER” or even Read more…
We are excited to integrate Vera Kennedy’s Sociology text, Beyond Race – Cultural Influences on Human Social Life into the Social Sciences library. The text is supported by discussion of relevant theory and research in cultural sociology. Beyond Race: Cultural Influences on Human Social Life has stressed learner-centered teaching with Read more…
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. Edfinity is a modern, affordable homework and testing platform for high school and collegiate STEM courses supported by the NSF. Their platform provides ready-to-go OER Read more…
Today we are highlighting Lead Analyst for the Center for Educational Effectiveness at the University of California, Davis, Meryl Motika. In her own words: I’ve been involved in program evaluation since studying Public Policy Analysis as an undergraduate. Along the way I’ve worked for a nonprofit intermediary in Oakland and Read more…
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 Read more…