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March 6, 2023
Customizing an Online OER Textbook on the LibreTexts Platform for Math Courses like Calculus or Differential Equations with Paul Seeburger, Professor of Mathematics, Monroe Community College, 10 AM (45 minutes) PST
The LibreText OER textbook platform makes it easy to customize an existing OER textbook to make it your own. This can include adjusting its content to be more consistent with your presentation, adding new content of your own, and mixing in content from other OER sources. The presenter will demonstrate how he customized an OER differential equations textbook by William Trench for use with his students, adjusting some content and adding a section of his own material on bifurcation. He will also share how he has customized the OpenStax Calculus textbook for use in his Calculus 1-3 courses.
In addition to what looks like a traditional textbook delivered online, it’s now possible to leverage the online environment to provide students with a much more actively engaging and interactive experience, going well beyond simple text and static images.
Although it takes time and effort, OER textbooks can come alive with concept explorations, interactive exercises and activities that check and enhance student understanding, and dynamic figures that help students gain insight into important relationships and concepts. To show how this can be done, the presenter will share how he has started this process by integrating formative interactive exercises and dynamic figures into his custom textbooks to help students visually explore a variety of topics including spring motion and bifurcation in differential equations and volumes of revolution and surface intersections in calculus.
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Welcome to the LibreVerse, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 12 PM (1 hour)
Join LibreTexts Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, as he introduces you to the components of the greater LibreVerse suite of OER creation and management technologies. The key approach to the LibreVerse is to build and use technology to advance specific goals and avoid its limitations. Hence a multi-goals effort like LibreTexts requires a multi-technology platform: the LibreVerse. The overview will include a discussion of the LibreTexts Libraries, ADAPT homework system, jupyter, Commons&Conductor, SOLO, bots and more.
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OEG Voices Podcast, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 3 PM
Join Alan Levine for a special OpenEd Week recording of the OEG Voices podcast episode with guest Delmar Larsen, Executive Director of LibreTexts (and all around open education champion). Like we have done in previous years, OEGlobal will record special episodes during Open Education Week offering 10 seats in the studio to anyone who wants to listen in live to the conversation.
OEG Voices are not interviews, but conversations. The discussion will cover all of the activities LibreTexts is organizing for Open Education Week and as well the two Open Education Awards of Excellence given to LibreTexts– one recognizing the LibreTexts collections in the Open Repository/Curation category and a second Open Infrastructure award for the LibreTexts OER Remixer. You will also learn about the newest LibreTexts developments and how you can join our community and help us ensure the future of education is open.
This will be a lively discussion and you can be part of the podcast by signing up to be in the studio (or wait until it appears at https://voices.oeglobal.org/).
To join: https://oeweek.oeglobal.org/events/2023/oeg-voices-delmar-larsen/
March 7, 2023
Using Machine Translation Algorithms to Effectively generate Non-English language OER Textbooks, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 8 AM (1 Hour) PST
Dr. Larsen will outline recent efforts of leveraging the centralized corpus of OER textbooks hosted on the LibreTexts platform toward a greater global impact. He will discuss the implementation and impact of two approaches in building non-English language OER textbooks via modern machine translation algorithms. Key to these approaches is recognizing that while modern machine translation algorithms have developed significantly over the past few years and they are still 90-95% perfect, their implementation makes them far more useful to students than the alternative human implemented translation effort at 100% implemented at a limited scale and with significant costs.
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Open Forum, with Members of the LibreTexts Team 9 AM (1 hour) PST
Bring all of your burning LibreTexts and greater LibreVerse questions to our open forum.
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Engaging three student populations with a LibreText OER, with Dr. Armeda Reitzel, Professor, Cal Poly Humboldt, 10 AM (1 hour) PST
Dr. Reitzel has used a new 2022 open educational resource (OER) that she co-authored with three different student groups: incarcerated inmates in a community college program, first-year students at a community college, and communication majors at a public state university. This presentation highlights three different student-oriented assignments to engage students with the content brought together in a reader-friendly LibreText OER for these diverse student populations.
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LibreTexts 101: Building the Textbook of the Future (Construction and Remixing with LibreTexts), with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 12 PM (1 hour) PST
Dr. Larsen will provide a topical overview of LibreTexts‘ suite of tools and technologies that can be used to advance the building and usage of OER textbooks, assessments, and other activities. Registering for a free LibreTexts account is recommended before attending this session. Register at: https://commons.libretexts.org/login?redirect_uri=%2Faccountrequest&src=accountrequest.
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Fundamentals of Biochemistry – A Comprehensive and Interactive text, with Dr. Henry Jakubowski, Professor of Chemistry at College of St. Benedict/St. John’s University, 2 PM (30 minutes) PST
This book’s philosophy and novel features will be highlighted, with a particular focus on its interactive features (molecular models, graphs, and kinetic/signal transduction analyses). Also, Dr. Jakubowski will discuss recent and ongoing additions and ask for your contributions!
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Advanced H5P: Getting More Out of Your OER, with LibreTexts Senior Product Manager Yasin Dahi, 3 PM (1 hour)
This hands-on workshop will guide participants in some more advanced techniques around building better learning modules using H5P. We’ll discuss 1) collaboration, 2) collections, 3) special interest groups, 4) AI-generated H5P, 5) graphic design for H5P, and 6) templates.
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March 8, 2023
Creating a College-wide OER Implementation, with Deborah Bowles, Interim Director, Teaching and Learning Center at Prince George’s Community College, 10 AM PST
In this presentation, Deborah Bowles, Interim Director, Teaching and Learning Center at Prince George’s Community College will discuss the process of creating a successful college-wide OER implementation. Participants will learn about the LibreTexts platform and how it can support sustainability. By the end of the webinar, participants will have some tools to create a successful college-wide OER implementation.
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Next Gen RN, with Kimberley Ernstmeyer, Open RN and Next Gen RN Project Director; Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director; and Eric Kean, LibreTexts Lead Developer, 11:30 AM (1 hour) PST
Join Kimberley Ernstmeyer, Open RN and Next Gen RN Project Director, Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Founder and Executive Director, and Eric Kean, LibreTexts lead developer, as they discuss the partnership between LibreTexts and the Next Gen RN project (a spinoff of the Open RN project) to collaboratively improve the preparedness of prelicensure nurses entering the workforce by customizing the ADAPT software platform to enable nursing students to practice taking Next Generation NCLEX-style formative assessments within their own courses and learning management systems.
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Getting to Know LibreTexts Open Homework and Assessment System: ADAPT, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 1 PM (1 hour) PST
Join Dr. Larsen as he introduces LibreTexts open homework and assessment system ADAPT. ADAPT is being developed as a widely distributed OER adaptive learning homework platform that is available to students without charge (or with significantly reduced charge compared to commercial alternatives) to complement the textbooks hosted in the LibreTexts libraries. ADAPT is built as an overlay technology upon four separate open-source assessment technologies: (1) WebWork, (2) ImathAS – used in MyOpenMath, (3) H5P, and (4) native assessments using Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) protocols like those in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and non-QTI protocols. ADAPT is unique in that it is designed as a single platform with the integrated capabilities of multiple technologies. Hence, ADAPT exceeds the limitations of any single technology and provides a powerful infrastructure to handle the assessment needs for a wide range of fields – from STEM to Humanities.
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LibreTexTs Accessibility Updates, with the LibreTexts Accessibility Team, 2 PM (1 hour) PST
LibreTexts is committed to ensuring its content and functionality are both accessible and usable by students and content authors. During this presentation, members of the LibreTexts team will provide the status of the comprehensive accessibility audit LibreTexts is undergoing. They will also share updates on exciting accessibility tools to support all users, including the Accessibility Compliance Review Matrix, Accessibility Checker, and support for accessible alternative questions for types of questions that may pose accessibility barriers for some students (such as drag and drop, hotspots, and mark the words).
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Turning OER Books into Courses with LibreSolo, with Yasin Dahi, LibreTexts Senior Product Manager, 3 PM (1 hour) PST
Get a sneak-peek at the upcoming open learning experience system, dubbed “Project Solo”. Participants are invited to join this session and learn about a new open-source software offering from LibreTexts. Project Solo aims to provide a bridge between your OER and your students, by providing tools to build interactive courses using OER you can source from just about anywhere. Solo is still in the early stages, and this will be the first public showcase of the technology.
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March 9, 2023
Open Forum, with Members of the LibreTexts Team 9 AM (1 hour) PST
Bring all of your burning LibreTexts and greater LibreVerse questions to our open forum.
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ADAPT and LibreStudio: Building the Textbook of the Future with Next Generation OER Homework System, with with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 11 AM (1 hour) PST
Presentation for Missouri A&OER Conference.
ADAPT is a new online homework system developed by LibreTexts to serve the Open Education community. With support from the California Educational Learning Lab, ADAPT is designed to combine adaptive learning incorporating learning trees with culturally responsive pedagogy at minimal cost. Instructors can use ADAPT to augment OER textbooks, create exams or use it with cell phone for in-class clicker exercises. Autograded questions based on four technologies – H5P, WebWork, IMathAS, and Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) –can be used interchangeably for maximal impact. ADAPT is unique in that it is designed as a single platform with the integrated capabilities of multiple technologies. Hence, ADAPT exceeds the limitations of any single technology and provides a powerful infrastructure to handle the assessment needs for a wide range of fields – from STEM to Humanities. Open ended questions can be evaluated using a sophisticated checker to rapidly mark text, audio or other files. Currently, the ADAPT question bank has 153,023 assessments (growing at a rate of 500 assessments/week). ADAPT is a valuable general purpose “question bank” for any faculty irrespective of whether they chose to adopt it in their class. Scores are passed back to Learning Management Systems instead of independent export as CSV files. Currently ADAPT has 815 instructor accounts with 4,102 students enrolled in 97 courses. We will also introduce the LibreStudio platform for construction, storage and distribution of H5P assessments as well as the Learning Analytics Dashboard coupled to ADAPT questions.
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Train the Trainer: LibreTexts Commons&Conductor, with Dr. Delmar Larsen, LibreTexts Executive Director and Founder, 12 PM (1 hour) PST
Dr. Larsen will introduce LibreTexts new catalog and project management platform, Commons&Conductor, and show potential users how they can facilitate training on these platforms for their own colleagues. Registering for a free Conductor account is recommended before attending this session. Register at: https://commons.libretexts.org/login?redirect_uri=%2Faccountrequest&src=accountrequest.
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March 10, 2023
Adapting to Adapt, with Gregory Allen, Chemistry Instructor, Mendocino College, 10 AM (1 hour) PST
Using the ADAPT system to engage my students in learning material outside of lecture. The presentation will focus on my experience using LibreTexts ADAPT open homework and assessment platform over the past two years in my chemistry courses and how it helped create dynamic homework assignments.
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LibreNet Q&A, the LibreTexts Team, 12 PM (30 minutes) PST
Want to learn more about LibreTexts new consortium, the LibreNet? Join the LibreTexts team as they break down all of the added benefits included in membership. Review LibreNet benefits and bring your questions.
To join: https://tinyurl.com/LTOEW2023-17
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