Join the LibreTexts team as we host a new series of webinars for OpenEd Week, March 6-10, 2023. All sessions will be synchronous and recorded for later viewing on our YouTube channel. Registration is not required. Account creation in one or more LibreTexts Libraries is strongly encouraged prior to some sessions as noted on the schedule. Schedule is subject to change; check back for updates prior to the start of OpenEd Week. We hope you’ll join us as we celebrate all things open!
LibreTexts OpenEd Week 2023 Schedule (all times PST):
March 6, 2023
Customizing an Online OER Textbook on the LibreTexts Platform for Math Courses like Calculus or Differential Equations with Paul Seeburger, Professor of Mathematics, Monroe Community College, 10 AM (45 minutes)
The LibreText OER textbook platform makes it easy to customize an existing OER textbook to make it your own. This can include adjusting its content to be more consistent with your presentation, adding new content of your own, and mixing in content from other OER sources. The presenter will demonstrate how he customized an OER differential equations textbook by William Trench for use with his students, adjusting some content and adding a section of his own material on bifurcation. He will also share how he has customized the OpenStax Calculus textbook for use in his Calculus 1-3 courses.
In addition to what looks like a traditional textbook delivered online, it’s now possible to leverage the online environment to provide students with a much more actively engaging and interactive experience, going well beyond simple text and static images.
Although it takes time and effort, OER textbooks can come alive with concept explorations, interactive exercises and activities that check and enhance student understanding, and dynamic figures that help students gain insight into important relationships and concepts. To show how this can be done, the presenter will share how he has started this process by integrating formative interactive exercises and dynamic figures into his custom textbooks to help students visually explore a variety of topics including spring motion and bifurcation in differential equations and volumes of revolution and surface intersections in calculus.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDdW-1mlETg&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=2
Welcome to the LibreVerse, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 12 PM (1 hour)
Join LibreTexts Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he introduces you to the components of the greater LibreVerse suite of OER creation and management technologies. The key approach to the LibreVerse is to build and use technology to advance specific goals and avoid its limitations. Hence a multi-goals effort like LibreTexts requires a multi-technology platform: the LibreVerse. The overview will include a discussion of the LibreTexts Libraries, ADAPT homework system, jupyter, Commons&Conductor, SOLO, bots and more.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DexP8esD28&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=1
OEG Voices Podcast, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 3 PM
Join Alan Levine for a special OpenEd Week recording of the OEG Voices podcast episode with guest Delmar Larsen, Executive Director of LibreTexts (and all around open education champion). Like we have done in previous years, OEGlobal will record special episodes during Open Education Week offering 10 seats in the studio to anyone who wants to listen in live to the conversation.
OEG Voices are not interviews, but conversations. The discussion will cover all of the activities LibreTexts is organizing for Open Education Week and as well the two Open Education Awards of Excellence given to LibreTexts– one recognizing the LibreTexts collections in the Open Repository/Curation category and a second Open Infrastructure award for the LibreTexts OER Remixer. You will also learn about the newest LibreTexts developments and how you can join our community and help us ensure the future of education is open.
This will be a lively discussion and you can be part of the podcast by signing up to be in the studio (or wait until it appears at https://voices.oeglobal.org/).
To listen to the recording: https://podcast.oeglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/episode052.mp3
March 7, 2023
Using Machine Translation Algorithms to Effectively generate Non-English language OER Textbooks, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 8 AM (1 Hour)
Dr. Larsen will outline recent efforts of leveraging the centralized corpus of OER textbooks hosted on the LibreTexts platform toward a greater global impact. He will discuss the implementation and impact of two approaches in building non-English language OER textbooks via modern machine translation algorithms. Key to these approaches is recognizing that while modern machine translation algorithms have developed significantly over the past few years and they are still 90-95% perfect, their implementation makes them far more useful to students than the alternative human implemented translation effort at 100% implemented at a limited scale and with significant costs.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZyGuqgI9JI&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=12
Open Forum, with Members of the LibreTexts Team 9 AM (1 hour)
Bring all of your burning LibreTexts and greater LibreVerse questions to our open forum.
Engaging three student populations with a LibreText OER, with Dr. Armeda Reitzel, Professor, Cal Poly Humboldt, 10 AM (1 hour)
Dr. Reitzel has used a new 2022 open educational resource (OER) that she co-authored with three different student groups: incarcerated inmates in a community college program, first-year students at a community college, and communication majors at a public state university. This presentation highlights three different student-oriented assignments to engage students with the content brought together in a reader-friendly LibreText OER for these diverse student populations.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8PhwmL4B18&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=5
LibreTexts 101: Building the Textbook of the Future (Construction and Remixing with LibreTexts), with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 12 PM (1 hour)
Dr. Larsen will provide a topical overview of LibreTexts‘ suite of tools and technologies that can be used to advance the building and usage of OER textbooks, assessments, and other activities. Registering for a free LibreTexts account is recommended before attending this session. Register at: https://commons.libretexts.org/login?redirect_uri=%2Faccountrequest&src=accountrequest.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8E3kK_G7_c&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=3
Fundamentals of Biochemistry – A Comprehensive and Interactive text, with Dr. Henry Jakubowski, Professor of Chemistry at College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, 2 PM (30 minutes)
This book’s philosophy and novel features will be highlighted, with a particular focus on its interactive features (molecular models, graphs, and kinetic/signal transduction analyses). Also, Dr. Jakubowski will discuss recent and ongoing additions and ask for your contributions!
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JxaKoSu3v8&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=4
March 8, 2023
Creating a College-wide OER Implementation, with Deborah Bowles, Interim Director, Teaching and Learning Center at Prince George’s Community College, 10 AM
In this presentation, Deborah Bowles, Interim Director, Teaching and Learning Center at Prince George’s Community College will discuss the process of creating a successful college-wide OER implementation. Participants will learn about the LibreTexts platform and how it can support sustainability. By the end of the webinar, participants will have some tools to create a successful college-wide OER implementation.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgnu1MjgFI4&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=6
Next Gen RN, with Kimberley Ernstmeyer, Open RN and Next Gen RN Project Director; Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director; and Eric Kean, LibreTexts Lead Developer, 11:30 AM (1 hour)
Join Kimberley Ernstmeyer, Open RN and Next Gen RN Project Director, Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, and Eric Kean, LibreTexts lead developer, as they discuss the partnership between LibreTexts and the Next Gen RN project (a spinoff of the Open RN project) to collaboratively improve the preparedness of prelicensure nurses entering the workforce by customizing the ADAPT software platform to enable nursing students to practice taking Next Generation NCLEX-style formative assessments within their own courses and learning management systems.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OuduK709zc&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=8
Getting to Know LibreTexts Open Homework and Assessment System: ADAPT, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 1 PM (1 hour)
Join Dr. Larsen as he introduces LibreTexts open homework and assessment system ADAPT. ADAPT is being developed as a widely distributed OER adaptive learning homework platform that is available to students without charge (or with significantly reduced charge compared to commercial alternatives) to complement the textbooks hosted in the LibreTexts libraries. ADAPT is built as an overlay technology upon four separate open-source assessment technologies: (1) WebWork, (2) ImathAS – used in MyOpenMath, (3) H5P, and (4) native assessments using Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) protocols like those in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and non-QTI protocols. ADAPT is unique in that it is designed as a single platform with the integrated capabilities of multiple technologies. Hence, ADAPT exceeds the limitations of any single technology and provides a powerful infrastructure to handle the assessment needs for a wide range of fields – from STEM to Humanities.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WCKq343RN4&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=9
LibreTexts Accessibility Updates, with the LibreTexts Accessibility Team, 2 PM (1 hour)
LibreTexts is committed to ensuring its content and functionality are both accessible and usable by students and content authors. During this presentation, members of the LibreTexts team will provide the status of the comprehensive accessibility audit LibreTexts is undergoing. They will also share updates on exciting accessibility tools to support all users, including the Accessibility Compliance Review Matrix, Accessibility Checker, and support for accessible alternative questions for types of questions that may pose accessibility barriers for some students (such as drag and drop, hotspots, and mark the words).
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ0rkPgac1k&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=11
March 9, 2023
Open Forum, with Members of the LibreTexts Team 9 AM (1 hour)
Bring all of your burning LibreTexts and greater LibreVerse questions to our open forum.
ADAPT and LibreStudio: Building the Textbook of the Future with Next Generation OER Homework System, with with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 11 AM (1 hour)
Presentation for Missouri A&OER Conference.
ADAPT is a new online homework system developed by LibreTexts to serve the Open Education community. With support from the California Educational Learning Lab, ADAPT is designed to combine adaptive learning incorporating learning trees with culturally responsive pedagogy at minimal cost. Instructors can use ADAPT to augment OER textbooks, create exams or use it with cell phone for in-class clicker exercises. Autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) –can be used interchangeably for maximal impact. ADAPT is unique in that it is designed as a single platform with the integrated capabilities of multiple technologies. Hence, ADAPT exceeds the limitations of any single technology and provides a powerful infrastructure to handle the assessment needs for a wide range of fields – from STEM to Humanities. Open ended questions can be evaluated using a sophisticated checker to rapidly mark text, audio or other files. Currently, the ADAPT question bank has 153,023 assessments (growing at a rate of 500 assessments/week). ADAPT is a valuable general purpose “question bank” for any faculty irrespective of whether they chose to adopt it in their class. Scores are passed back to Learning Management Systems instead of independent export as CSV files. Currently ADAPT has 815 instructor accounts with 4,102 students enrolled in 97 courses. We will also introduce the LibreStudio platform for construction, storage and distribution of H5P assessments as well as the Learning Analytics Dashboard coupled to ADAPT questions.
Train the Trainer: LibreTexts Commons&Conductor, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 12 PM (1 hour)
Dr. Larsen will introduce LibreTexts new catalog and project management platform, Commons&Conductor, and show potential users how they can facilitate training on these platforms for their own colleagues. Registering for a free Conductor account is recommended before attending this session. Register at: https://commons.libretexts.org/login?redirect_uri=%2Faccountrequest&src=accountrequest.
Advanced H5P: Getting More Out of Your OER, with LibreTexts Senior Product Manager Yasin Dahi, 1 PM (1 hour)
This hands-on workshop will guide participants in some more advanced techniques around building better learning modules using H5P. We’ll discuss 1) collaboration, 2) collections, 3) special interest groups, 4) AI-generated H5P, 5) graphic design for H5P, and 6) templates.
Building a faculty-led community of practice to humanize Curriculum and Instruction, with Dr. Ly-Huong Pham, PhD, MBA, Evergreen Valley College, 2 PM (1 hour)
Supporting and developing OER is a part of Evergreen Valley College’s focused work on humanizing curriculum and instruction to achieve equity, opportunity, and social justice for our students. With the support of our President, a small team of faculty was formed to create the infrastructure and process to support building a collection of OER materials supporting our courses into a common place on LibreTexts that all can access.
Join Dr. Pham as she shares the lessons learned in developing the process and infrastructure to engage and support faculty in their efforts in creating and curating content on LibreTexts. Participants will gain insights on how to create a sustainable faculty-led college-wide OER support program.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puueI5FxnL0&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=7
March 10, 2023
Adapting to Adapt, with Gregory Allen, Chemistry Instructor, Mendocino College, 10 AM (1 hour)
Using the ADAPT system to engage my students in learning material outside of lecture. The presentation will focus on my experience using LibreTexts ADAPT open homework and assessment platform over the past two years in my chemistry courses and how it helped create dynamic homework assignments.
Watch the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WCKq343RN4&list=PL83Q_gTbFatSHn7YXfD0bY9smoxolzqWf&index=9
LibreNet Q&A, the LibreTexts Team, 12 PM (30 minutes)
Want to learn more about LibreTexts new consortium, the LibreNet? Join the LibreTexts team as they break down all of the added benefits included in membership. Review LibreNet benefits and bring your questions.
