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Prince George’s Community College to Host Virtual LibreFest, Oct. 23, 2020

PGCC and the LibreTexts Development team members will host an online workshop to help new users of LibreTexts incorporate the Open Education Resource (OER) platform in their courses.  This workshop will have two tracks:  one focusing on new OER users, and one for those who are trying to build upon Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 3 months3 months ago
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Faculty Profile Series

Faculty Profile: Laura Williamson Ambrose

Laura Wiliamson Ambrose is Associate Professor and Department Chair of Humanistic Studies at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. She learned about LibreTexts from a colleague in the Chemistry department as they worked to enhance the research culture on Saint Mary’s campus. Dr. Ambrose is quick to point out that the Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 4 months4 months ago
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Faculty Profile: Karsten Theis

Dr. Karsten Theis is a professor of Chemistry at Westfield State University in Massachusetts. Dr. Theis discovered LibreTexts in 2017 after he adopted the OpenStax Chemistry textbook and was looking for an easy way for students to access portions of the text without having to download the entire book. Soon Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 5 months5 months ago
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Next LibreFest Scheduled for November 4-6, 2020

Thanks to the success of LibreFest 2020 earlier this year, the LibreTexts team is already hard at work planning the next installment which will run right before the OpenEd 20 conference, from November 4-6. Registration is free. Are you: considering an OER because you are concerned about high textbook prices Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 6 months3 months ago
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Faculty Profile: Kate Plass

Dr. Kate Plass, Professor of Chemistry at Franklin & Marshall College, found herself Googling resources for students in her general, inorganic, and materials Chemistry courses to use in place of expensive texts when she ran across the LibreTexts Chemistry library. What began as a search for materials for her students Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 6 months ago
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LibreTexts Faculty Profile: Kristin Kuter

Greetings, LibreTexts followers. Welcome to our new faculty profile series. For our first installment we’d like to introduce you to Professor Kristin Kuter, Associate Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. Professor Kuter teaches probability theory and statistics as a two-semester sequence. Materials for these Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 6 months6 months ago
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LibreTexts Stands In Solidarity with Black Lives Matter

In light of the recent protests surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement, we at LibreTexts are compelled to lend our voice to support the thousands of peaceful protestors taking to the streets across the country in order to initiate long overdue changes regarding how society treats our communities of color. Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 7 months3 months ago
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LibreTexts Announces Online Workshop for Future Instructors

Virtually hosted by Hope College July 16-17, 2020 Justin Shorb and Brent Krueger from Hope College in collaboration with Paul Seeburger from Rochester Community College and other LibreTexts Development team members will host an online workshop to help new users of LibreTexts incorporate the Open Education Resource (OER) platform in Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 8 months3 months ago
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LibreTexts Announces Easier Account Creation

Due to the ongoing COVID19 emergency, LibreTexts usage has grown substantially. The LibreTexts team is instituting new procedure to handle the increased volume of requests for accounts. While OER content hosted on the LibreTexts platform is completely free for faculty, students, and educators to use, new Instructors and Construction Teams Read more…

By Jennifer Rogers, 9 months3 months ago
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LibreTexts is here for You.

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…

By Delmar Larsen, 10 months3 months ago

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