LibreTexts, in conjunction with Hope College, will host the next LibreFest virtually on May 25, 2021. Follow this page for details as they become available. This one-day workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn about LibreTexts in time to use it in one or more of your courses this Read more…
Join the LibreTexts team next week, March 1-5, for a new series of webinars and faculty conversations in celebration of Open Education Week. A full schedule of events is listed below. Monday, March 1st: 9:30-10:30 (PST): Delmar Larsen Do You Want to Build a Snowman Textbook? – Empowered OER Construction and Usage Read more…
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…
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…
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…
Update: All Open Ed Week webinars are now available on the LibreTexts YouTube Channel. Greetings, LibreTexts fans and followers! As our contribution to OpenEd Week this year (March 2-6), the LibreTexts team has put together a schedule of webinars on how faculty from a variety of disciplines are using our 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…
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.
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…