Professor Larry Green from Lake Tahoe Community College is no stranger to OER. He believes in taking full advantage of any opportunity to create textbooks of the future for his courses by utilizing technologies that didn’t exist when the “traditional” textbook was invented decades ago by using videos, visualizations, and Read more…
LibreTexts, in conjunction with Hope College, will host the next LibreFest virtually on May 25, 2021. LibreFest is free to attend but registration is required and available here. This one-day workshop will give participants the opportunity to learn about LibreTexts in time to use it in one or more of Read more…
Dr. Ranjan Rohatgi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science at Saint Mary’s College in Indiana. He has always looked for ways to avoid using expensive texts for his courses. He had used OER in the past, but not in a way that gave him 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…
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…