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…
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…
Greetings, OER colleagues! Are you planning to attend OpenEd19 in Phoenix? Be sure to stop by Cira Ballroom B at 4:30 pm on Wednesday, October 30 to hear our Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, discuss reimagining the future with Libretexts. The LibreTexts community focuses on creating and curating online OER libraries Read more…
Greetings, OpenEd advocates! Planning your trip to the Annual OpenEd Conference in Phoenix this year? LibreTexts, in conjunction with Open Active Textbooks (by the Inspark Teaching Network), OpenRN, and the Department of Education, invites you to join us for Reimagining the Textbook, a pre-conference meeting and workshop on October 29. Read more…
Professor Paul Thornton from University of Hawaii Maui College has already saved his students nearly $2500 by adopting an open textbook for his Psychology 212: Research Methods course. The text, a collaborative effort by Rajiv Jhangiani, Carrie Cuttler, and Dana C. Leighton, truly “belongs to the commons” according to Jhangiani. Read more…
More exciting news from the LibreTexts Tech Team: our Jupyter Hub is now live and ready for beta testing! Are you a member of the UC Davis community, or a LibreTexts contributor? Check out the brand new hub here. Questions? Contact the team at: jupyterteam@ucdavis.edu.
Chancellor Brian King of Sacramento City College gave a shout out to LibreTexts in the college’s Fall 2019 convocation. Holding a print version of an Oragnic Chemistry LibreText curated by Sac City faculty Dianne Bennet, Chancellor King received an audible gasp from the audience when he told them the book Read more…
Our tech team is hard at work making the LibreTexts user experience even more dynamic. Check out this new blog post and find out how engineering students at the University of California, Davis are hard at work creating Linux servers for JupyterHub.
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…
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…