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. The California Learning Lab award Read more…
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 Read more…
This course will walk participants through the process of customizing an OER textbook for one of their courses on the LibreTexts platform. Location: Joint Math Meetings of the AMS and MAA in Denver, CO. Minicourse title: Creating and Adapting OER Textbooks Using the LibreTexts Platform Dates/Times: 9:00 – 11:00 am, Read more…
This is the breakdown of the OpenEd19 poster given in Phoenix, AZ Oct. 30th 2019. The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens Read more…
The LibreTexts team is proud to announce a new addition to our platform that can help dyslexics and non-dyslexics read more quickly and easily the pages on our platform. This new feature complements our new “dark mode” for night time viewing and is called BeeLine Reader. It is estimated that 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…
Josh Halpern is Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Howard University who continues to write LibreTexts and to advocate for the project. Halpern’s scientific research was eclectic, including materials science, earth science, planetary science, chemistry and physics. He was the founding director of the DC Space Grant Consortium and administered the Read more…