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at Leeward Community College, GT 105

LibreTexts is an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burden of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society. With LibreTexts, students, faculty, and outside experts work together to build freely available open education resources that supplant conventional paper-based textbooks. LibreTexts currently encompass twelve widely used college-level disciplines from chemistry to humanities with over 68,500 pages.

Delmar is the Founder and Director of the LibreTexts project consisting of twelve independently operating and interconnected libraries that focus on augmenting post-secondary education in specific fields in both STEM fields, social sciences, and humanities. Supported by a U.S. National Science Foundation ($1 million grants), the LibreTexts project is being built by over 1000 active developers (students, instructors and outside experts) across multiple campuses and nations.

Delmar Larsen is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Biophysics Graduate Group in the University of California, Davis. Delmar received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (Chemistry) and did postdoctoral stints at the Free University Amsterdam (Biophysics) and the University of Southern California (Chemistry). In 2005, Delmar moved to the UC Davis as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2019.

In this session, you will login to LibreTexts and experience for yourself how to:

• use the LibreTexts remixer to create your own "sample" OER book
• edit pages in the online book
• insert images onto pages
• learn automated features that save you time!

You will also learn about the LibreVerse ecosystem (including textbooks, homework, annotation, jupyter hub), LibreMaps workflow, and how you can step into remixing and distributing your own OER.

Please bring your own device to this session. Register below. Deadline to register: Feb 21, 2010.

Photo by Etienne Boulanger on Unsplash

In this session, UH OER Campus Leads will have a small-group session with Delmar on how to support their respective faculty on LibreTexts.

Please register so we can plan accordingly.

Website: http://oer.hawaii.edu
Location: 96-045 Ala Ike, Pearl City, HI, USA