The Libretexts is designed as a collaborative platform that enables dissemination and evaluation of new education developments and approaches, with an emphasis on data-driven assessment of student learning and performance. It is becoming ever clearer that new and innovative educational efforts are required to facilitate the greater creativity, flexibility, and increased learning capability needed for post-secondary education in the future. The increasingly diverse American educational landscape requires more personalized approaches. Unfortunately, rapidly rising undergraduate fees and textbook costs are serious factors impeding access to higher education for many students. Growing textbook costs are a serious barrier for under-served, at-risk students and open-access textbook resources can be used to guide students toward a centralized 'enhanced learning environment' capable of tracking student-specific activity and performance to identify weaknesses in study habits.<br/><br/>The primary goals of our effort is to create an open accessible Libretexts resource that is capable to taking the place of conventional textbooks in post-secondary courses. Our assessment plan focuses on multiple pilots whereby Libretexts efficacies are established by comparisons with established textbooks in established courses with known student performances. This approach not only can establish the non-inferiority of Wikitexts Libretexts, but provides a mechanism to establish superiority of the project (see Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 16, 939-948 (2015)).

Building and assessing the Libretexts Project (nee ChemWiki)

253rd National Meeting (2017)

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.