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…
Hello, LibreTexts followers! It’s that time again! This week LibreTexts would like to introduce you to Jason K. Moore, an assistant teaching professor in the College of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Jason’s teaching and research interests include multibody dynamics, biomechanics, and engineering education. He Read more…
A group of 30 faculty in myriad disciplines from across the Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) came together June 4 to create, curate and implement open educational resources in their classes. The five-hour OER Hackathon, sponsored by the LibreTexts OER US Department of Education grant, enabled instructors and librarians Read more…
Who says science faculty can’t appreciate pop culture? Check out LibreTexts team member Larry Green, and Executive Director Delmar Larsen celebrating May the Fourth with an OER twist.
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…
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…