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…
Greetings, OpenEd advocates! Planning your trip to the Annual OpenEd Conference in Phoenix this year? LibreTexts, in conjunction with Open Active Textbooks (by the Inspark Teaching Network), OpenRN, and the Department of Education, invites you to join us for Reimagining the Textbook, a pre-conference meeting and workshop on October 29. Read more…
Happy Thursday, OER and OpenEd advocates! Today in our Getting to Know the LibreTexts team we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Kathryn Haas. Kathryn Haas is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. She earned a Ph.D. at Duke Read more…
Professor Paul Thornton from University of Hawaii Maui College has already saved his students nearly $2500 by adopting an open textbook for his Psychology 212: Research Methods course. The text, a collaborative effort by Rajiv Jhangiani, Carrie Cuttler, and Dana C. Leighton, truly “belongs to the commons” according to Jhangiani. Read more…
More exciting news from the LibreTexts Tech Team: our Jupyter Hub is now live and ready for beta testing! Are you a member of the UC Davis community, or a LibreTexts contributor? Check out the brand new hub here. Questions? Contact the team at: jupyterteam@ucdavis.edu.
Chancellor Brian King of Sacramento City College gave a shout out to LibreTexts in the college’s Fall 2019 convocation. Holding a print version of an Oragnic Chemistry LibreText curated by Sac City faculty Dianne Bennet, Chancellor King received an audible gasp from the audience when he told them the book Read more…
Hello, LibreTexts followers! It’s that time of the week again. This week, get to know Philip J. Reid, a member of the LibreTexts general advisory board. Philip J. Reid received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Puget Sound, his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Read more…
Greetings, Open Ed and OER advocates! This week in our “Getting to Know” the LibreTexts team series we’d like to introduce you to Kate Graham. Professor Kate Graham, Ph.D. (College of Saint Benedict/ Saint John’s University) Graham helped develop the unique chemistry curriculum at CSB/SJU and has been a co-author Read more…
Greetings, Open Ed advocates! As we gear up for the start of a new school year, here at LibreTexts we are starting up our “getting to know the team” series again. First up, Layne Morsch, Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Illinois, Springfield. Dr. Layne Morsch received his Ph. Read more…
A group of 30 faculty in myriad disciplines from across the Contra Costa Community College District (4CD) came together June 4 to create, curate and implement open educational resources in their classes. The five-hour OER Hackathon, sponsored by the LibreTexts OER US Department of Education grant, enabled instructors and librarians Read more…