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…
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…
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.