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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…