Who, What, Why, and How of the LibreTexts Project

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Who, What, Why, and How of the LibreTexts Project Delmar Larsen Executive Director, LibreTexts Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis USERNAME: Remix Password: ILoveRemixing! https://groups.io/g/ Libretexts-Constructionforum http://Libretexts.org When it comes to SOLT research, Mount Royal University comes immediately to my mind. I would like to thank Brett and the other organizers of the meeting for the giving me the opportunity to meet with SOTL researchers both at MRU and abroad, that are presenting your excellent results here. I am also thankful for giving me the opportunity to present our Libretexts project centered out of the University of California, Davis, but used internationally as you will learn. How do we know that students are using the Wiki? In contrast, how do we know they are using print textbooks? What evidence is there for a digital textbook being a viable replacement to a print textbook? Are there best practices for adopting a digital textbook? What peer-review processes does the Wiki undergo? Are faculty recognized for contributions to the Wiki in a similar manner to writing a commercial textbook, and should they be? How does LibreText compare to Wikipedia?  Can students trust LibreTexts? https://facebook.com/Libretexts http://Blog.Libretexts.org https://groups.io/g/Libretexts-Commons https://twitter.com/libretexts

Presentation Overview How and What we are and not Modes of Usage OER Fragmentation and The Rise of Oracles Step 1: Harvesting it All Step 2: Remixing it All

My Father’s Truck

Mission Statement The LibreTexts mission is to unite students, faculty and scholars in a cooperative effort to develop an easy-to-use online platform for the construction, customization, and dissemination of open educational resources (OER) to reduce the burdens of unreasonable textbook costs to our students and society.

What is OER? Open Educational Resources (OER) describe any copyrightable work that is either (1) in the public domain or (2) licensed in a manner that provides users with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities: Retain - the right to make, own, and control copies of the content (e.g., download, duplicate, store, and manage) Reuse - the right to use the content in a wide range of ways (e.g., in a class, in a study group, on a website, in a video) Revise - the right to adapt, adjust, modify, or alter the content itself (e.g., translate the content into another language) Remix - the right to combine the original or revised content with other material to create something new (e.g., incorporate the content into a mashup) Redistribute - the right to share copies of the original content, your revisions, or your remixes with others (e.g., give a copy of the content to a friend) http://opencontent.org/definition

Three Principal Aspects of the LibreTexts Project Construction Platform Publishing Platform Dissemination Platform Usage (Educational) Platform The LibreTexts as a Curated Repository of “living” Content – largest on the net, most visited on the net The LibreTexts as a Construction and Dissemination Platform – 100s of course The LibreTexts as Student Assessment/Performance Tool – 60M students annually

Three Principal Aspects of how the LibreTexts project is used The LibreTexts as a Curated Repository of “living” OER Content – largest and most visited on the net The LibreTexts as a Construction and Dissemination Platform – 100s of courses The LibreTexts as Student Assessment/Performance Tool – 60M students annually

The LibreTexts is First and Foremost a Community Effort Including Diablo Valley College

The Textbook of the Future is not the textbook of the past We need to stop thinking about building OER individual textbooks… We need to start thinking about building OER “textlibraries”… CC BY 2.0; Stewart Butterfield - flickr

We focus on building an integrated online platform Ease of dissemination Seamlessly integrates content over multiple sub-fields or across different fields Facilitates highly-collaborative and highly-distributed construction efforts Provides a mechanism for more advanced features than a PDF or paper-based book Online Homework system (adaptive) 3D capabilities Multimedia including videos and simulations Numerical calculations infrastructure Student tracking and assessment Integrated annotation infrastructure Online Homework system (adaptive) 3D capabilities Multimedia including videos and simulations Numerical calculations infrastructure Student tracking and assessment Integrated annotation infrastructure

Organization of a Library Campus Sandboxes Where the Texts are Where the Problems are Everything else

Download Center Mechanisms of Using Libretexts Books Online Via PDF Via LMS Common Cartridge LTI (soon) EPUB (soon) Professionally Bound Text https://chem.libretexts.org/Under_Construction/Users/Henry/Download_Center

The OER Universe https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2018/01/10/finding-oer-remains-challenging-solutions-abound https://sparcopen.org/our-work/list-of-oer-policies-projects/

Step 1: Either Connect all OER Content or Integrate all OER content Enter The Oracles Step 1: Either Connect all OER Content or Integrate all OER content Step 2: Construct a tool to traverse this aggregation effectively and allow finding and remixing

Step 1: We want to “Borgify” the OER Universe Integrated (Harvest) existing OER Depository/Referatories into LibreTexts Edit and Typeset to Central Standard Cross reference and add Meta-tags for content curations Build an OER Remixer to let faculty rapidly construct customizable texts

Building the Ultimate OER Repository Mechanism 1: Student contribution via course effort (e.g., extra credit) Mechanism 2: Student integration of existing content from faculty Mechanism 3: Faculty construction of raw content from scratch

Content Development

Harvesting Team Common format allows simple integration and modification

Step2: Use the Libretexts like a Storeroom of Educational Content CC BY SA 3.0; unported; Tiia Monto Swap “Weapons of Tooth Death” for “Weapons of Education”

The OER Remixer The OER Remixer is a self-service tool to rapidly assemble a LibreText from existing sources. This tutorial will include both an explanation of the User Interface as well as a walkthrough of how to do basic tasks.

How to Adopt a Libretext? Identify what you want… Does something identical exist in the Libraries already? Copy, Paste, and Go yes no Does something similar exist in the Libraries already? Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go yes no

How to Adopt a Libretext? no Does something similar exist outside the Libraries already? Ask permission to integrate into LibreTexts yes Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go yes no no Copy, Paste, Edit, and Go Construct from Scratch… involve faculty and students yes Integrate crystallography throughout content

Tracking Student Behavior to Optimize Pedagogy Can extract information regarding student study habits. Clear Cramming

Physical Textbooks

Future: Internet in a Box

Affordable Learning $olutions https://als.csuprojects.org/ Leslie Kennedy AL$ - CSU Gerry Hanley CSU Ralph Hexter UCD Provost MacKenzie Smith Librarian

Contact us for more Details https://LibreTexts.org dlarsen@Libretexts.org