Dr. Kate Plass, Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College, found herself Googling resources for students in her general, inorganic, and materials Chemistry courses to use in place of expensive texts when she ran across the LibreTexts Chemistry library. What began as a search for materials for her students Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts followers. Welcome to our new faculty profile series. For our first installment we’d like to introduce you to Professor Kristin Kuter, Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. Professor Kuter teaches probability theory and statistics as a two-semester sequence. Materials for these Read more…
In light of the recent protests surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, we at LibreTexts are compelled to lend our voice to support the thousands of peaceful protestors taking to the streets across the country in order to initiate long overdue changes regarding how society treats our communities of color. Read more…
The LibreTexts team is proud of the progress our project has made since its inception 13 years ago. Since then, it has grown to become the most popular Open Education Resource (OER) textbook project on the net with 100 million pageviews delivered in 2019 alone (a 60% increase from 2018) Read more…
Virtually hosted by Hope College July 16-17, 2020 Justin Shorb and Brent Krueger from Hope College in collaboration with Paul Seeburger from Rochester Community College and other LibreTexts Development team members will host an online workshop to help new users of LibreTexts incorporate the Open Education Resource (OER) platform in Read more…
Due to the ongoing COVID19 emergency, LibreTexts usage has grown substantially. The LibreTexts team is instituting new procedure to handle the increased volume of requests for accounts. While OER content hosted on the LibreTexts platform is completely free for faculty, students, and educators to use, new Instructors and Construction Teams Read more…
Update: All Open Ed Week webinars are now available on the LibreTexts YouTube Channel. Greetings, LibreTexts fans and followers! As our contribution to OpenEd Week this year (March 2-6), the LibreTexts team has put together a schedule of webinars on how faculty from a variety of disciplines are using our Read more…
Happy Thursday, LibreTexts fans and followers! Today in our Getting to the Know the team series we’d like to introduce you to Xavier Prat-Resina. Xavier is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR), where he teaches chemistry and works on the development and implementation of online tools Read more…
Still can’t enough LibreTexts Jupyter Hub updates? Well, you’re in luck! Check out the latest SacPy talk from LibreTexts contributor Jason Moore and his team: What to do when chicks go bad in your flock: JupyterHub on Bare Metal with Kubernetes.
Greetings, LibreTexts followers! Today we’d like to introduce you team member John Moore. Professor Moore is a leader in chemical education. Through the Journal of Chemical Education, the Institute for Chemical Education, the New Traditions systemic initiative, and Project SERAPHIM, he has taught or organized more than 60 workshops for Read more…