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…
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…
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…
Christine Barrow has been a member of the Prince George’s Community College faculty for eighteen years. Prior to serving as dean, she served as Department Chair and Professor. During her tenure at the College, she has been focused on partnerships, innovative programming, and teaching and learning excellence around student engagement, 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…
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: [email protected].
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…