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…
LibreTexts OER Remixer, now in its second version, is ready to help you remix the OER Universe! Content from across all 13 LibreTexts libraries can be remixed in order to create a new open resource. The Remixer can be accessed from any LibreText library by clicking on the Remixer icon Read more…
The second round of Open Textbook Pilot grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education has been awarded to Arizona State University (ASU) and Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) (Wisconsin). ASU’s proposal also includes three partner community college districts: Maricopa in Arizona, Ivy Tech in Indiana, and Miami Dade in Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Professor Layne Morsch from the University of Illinois Springfield recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with Senator Dick Durbin and the U.S. Department of Education during Open Education Week 2019. There to discuss his partnership with LibreTexts as part of the Open Textbooks Pilot grant, Morsch stated, “To me, Read more…
Of particular interest to our colleagues in Chemistry, The American Chemical Society’s C&EN just published an article detailing the growing number of professors adopting open resources, especially LibreTexts, for their courses. Read it in its entirety here.
Greetings OER advocates! Next up in our Getting to Know the LibreTexts team is Dawn Sumner, Professor of Geology and Geobiology at the University of California, Davis. In her own words: I am passionate about open educational resources (OERs) because sharing scientific knowledge, particularly that relating to Earth sciences, is Read more…
Calling all math fans, next up in our Getting to Know the LibreTexts team is Professor of Mathematics at Monroe Community College, Paul Seeburger. Paul has been the lead-PI on two NSF grants (DUE-CCLI #0736968 & DUE-IUSE #1524968), both focused on the development of an online tool named CalcPlot3D that Read more…