Join Mr. Paul Seeburger, Professor of Mathematics at Monroe Community College, for Creating and Adapting OER Textbooks for Math Courses Using the LibreTexts Platform. This course will be held virtually Tuesday, July 6, 2:30 – 4:30 ET, and Thursday, July 8, 2:30 – 4:30 ET. Registration is $15 for MAA members Read more…
Dr. Pamela Scheffler is an ecologist by trade. She is also a professor of Geography, Biology, and Environmental Science, as well as Tropical Ecosystem and Agroforestry Management (TEAM) at Hawaii Community College. Most of her courses do not require a textbook as traditionally texts have been hard to find in Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts fans and followers! Today we’d like to introduce you to team member Justin Shorb. Dr. Shorb is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hope College in Holland, MI. He received his Doctorate in Chemistry from University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2011, earning a joint Ph.D. in both Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts fans and followers! In the spirit of next week’s OpenEd19 Conference, we’d like to introduce you to the man who started it all, LibreTexts Executive Director Delmar Larsen. Delmar Larsen is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Biophysics Graduate Group in the University of California, Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts readers! In our next installment of our getting to know our team we’d like to introduce you to Mojdeh Mehdizadeh. Mojdeh Mehdizadeh currently serves as Executive Vice Chancellor of Education and Technology for the Contra Costa Community College District. Her responsibilities include support of the colleges’ (Contra Costa, Read more…
Greetings, OER and OpenEd friends! This week we’d like to introduce you to LibreTexts team member Bob Belford. Dr. Belford is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, former chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Education’s Committee on Computers in Chemical Education, and a Fellow Read more…
Greetings, OER and OpenEd friends! This week we’d like to introduce you to our web developer extraordinaire, Henry Agnew. Henry is an Undergraduate at the University of California, Davis. He started off as a self-taught programmer and served as a founding member and President of his High School’s Robotics team. Read more…
Greetings, OpenEd advocates! Today we’d like to introduce you to Dietmar Kennepohl, Professor of Chemistry at Athabasca University. Dr. Kennepohl B.Sc.(Hons), Ph.D., FCIC is the former Associate Vice President Academic at Athabasca University—Canada’s Open University. Most of his teaching experience has been in a distributed and online setting and he holds 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…
Happy Thursday, OER and OpenEd advocates! Today in our Getting to Know the LibreTexts team we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Kathryn Haas. Kathryn Haas is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. She earned a Ph.D. at Duke Read more…