Greetings, OER colleagues! Are you planning to attend OpenEd19 in Phoenix? Be sure to stop by Cira Ballroom B at 4:30 pm on Wednesday, October 30 to hear our Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, discuss reimagining the future with Libretexts. The LibreTexts community focuses on creating and curating online OER libraries Read more…
Greetings, LibreTexts readers! In our next installment of our getting to know our team we’d like to introduce you to Mojdeh Mehdizadeh. Mojdeh Mehdizadeh currently serves as Executive Vice Chancellor of Education and Technology for the Contra Costa Community College District. Her responsibilities include support of the colleges’ (Contra Costa, Read more…
Greetings, OER and OpenEd friends! This week we’d like to introduce you to LibreTexts team member Bob Belford. Dr. Belford is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Arkansas Little Rock, former chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Education’s Committee on Computers in Chemical Education, and a Fellow Read more…
Hello, LibreTexts followers! It’s that time again! This week LibreTexts would like to introduce you to Jason K. Moore, an assistant teaching professor in the College of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Davis. Jason’s teaching and research interests include multibody dynamics, biomechanics, and engineering education. He Read more…
Greetings, OER and OpenEd friends! This week we’d like to introduce you to our web developer extraordinaire, Henry Agnew. Henry is an Undergraduate at the University of California, Davis. He started off as a self-taught programmer and served as a founding member and President of his High School’s Robotics team. 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…
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: [email protected].
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…