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…
Happy Thursday, LibreTexts fans and followers! Today in our Getting to the Know the team series we’d like to introduce you to Xavier Prat-Resina. Xavier is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Rochester (UMR), where he teaches chemistry and works on the development and implementation of online tools Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts followers! We’re back with our Getting to Know the LibreTexts team with our graphic and web designer extraordinaire, Eric Boosman. Eric started his career as a web designer in 2000, and began doing freelance web & graphic design around the same time. Drawing from this experience, he turned Read more…
Still can’t enough LibreTexts Jupyter Hub updates? Well, you’re in luck! Check out the latest SacPy talk from LibreTexts contributor Jason Moore and his team: What to do when chicks go bad in your flock: JupyterHub on Bare Metal with Kubernetes.
Greetings, LibreTexts followers! Today we’d like to introduce you team member John Moore. Professor Moore is a leader in chemical education. Through the Journal of Chemical Education, the Institute for Chemical Education, the New Traditions systemic initiative, and Project SERAPHIM, he has taught or organized more than 60 workshops for Read more…
This course will walk participants through the process of customizing an OER textbook for one of their courses on the LibreTexts platform. Location: Joint Math Meetings of the AMS and MAA in Denver, CO. Minicourse title: Creating and Adapting OER Textbooks Using the LibreTexts Platform Dates/Times: 9:00 – 11:00 am, Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts fans and followers! Today we’d like to introduce you to team member Justin Shorb. Dr. Shorb is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Hope College in Holland, MI. He received his Doctorate in Chemistry from University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2011, earning a joint Ph.D. in both Read more…
This is the breakdown of the OpenEd19 poster given in Phoenix, AZ Oct. 30th 2019. The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts fans and followers. Check out Jason Moore’s new blog post on creating a Kubernetes Bare-Metal Cluster for JupyterHub here, and let us know what you think!
The LibreTexts team is proud to announce a new addition to our platform that can help dyslexics and non-dyslexics read more quickly and easily the pages on our platform. This new feature complements our new “dark mode” for night time viewing and is called BeeLine Reader. It is estimated that Read more…