The Libretexts project (https://LibreTexts.org) is a collaborative non-commercial Open Education Resource (OER) platform that simultaneously enables the dissemination and evaluation of existing resources and as a dynamic “courseware” to facilitate new education developments and approaches, with an emphasis on data-driven assessment of student learning and performance. Since its inception 13 years ago, the Libretexts has been exponentially growing and currently reaches over close to a million students per day and is the most visited chemistry website and online OER textbook resource in the world. Central to its success is the construction, dissemination, and adoption of faculty specific and freely accessible course and instructor designed "LibreTexts" that substitute for costly conventional textbooks in post-secondary courses. These Libretexts are assembled by incorporating content from an extensive network of existing STEM materials coupled with “home-grown” content.<br/><br/>This presentation will serve as a collaborative hands-on development discussion to introduce faculty to the LibreTexts Living library with “hands-on” demonstrations of recently capabilities including 3D visualization, online homework capabilities, annotation capabilities (hypothes.is and NoteBene) student online tracking, assessment, and numerical data analysis infrastructure. The application of LibreTexts for analytical chemistry courses will be emphasized including the progress in building the suite of OER textbooks for the ACS BS curriculum including the targeted “Introduction to Analytical Chemistry,” “Chemometrics,” and “Instrumental Analysis” texts. We will demonstrate how we are building the “Textbooks of the Future” by integrating R and python executable code into these texts via juypter system and the integration of summative homework assignments via the ADAPT homework system. Preliminary data analysis of how student interact with the platform as a Learning Analytics infrastructure to guide pedagogy and efficacy testing will be discussed.

Building and Adopting the LibreTexts Platform as the Extensive Living Library Platform for Widespread Open Access Chemistry Education

ACS Fall 2021

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