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…
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…
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…
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.