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Introduction to LibreTexts
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Registration through LibreOne and Costs
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Content: Commons and the Libraries
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Technology: Textbooks and Interactivity
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Content and Technology: ADAPT Homework
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Development: Upcoming Features & Collaborations
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Training: LibreTexts Academy and Support
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Campus Commons and the LibreNet
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Where will you begin?
Getting Started for Instructors
This course is intended to introduce you to all that is contained in ADAPT. Any logged-in user can obtain the certification.
Ask yourself: what is keeping me from using OER?
LibreTexts started because a professor was frustrated that a publishing company was making money off of his students by simply changing a few things in the standard textbook and rolling it out as an 'entirely different new edition' which caused students to no longer use used books, home-grown assignments had to be updated, and it generally created a burden on everyone simply to increase revenues. Free The Textbook became the mantra. How do we free it? We identify the ties that hold faculty to the standard structure.
First Steps to Explore:
I want my book to teach the material I want in the order I want. Great! Start off with watching the video on Remixing from our Free Monthly Webinar Series. Then, go on to review the Authoring video in the same series to learn the logistics of how to start building using the Conductor. We highly recommend starting with a syllabus of topics covered and a textbook Table of Contents you've used in the past. If you want step-by-step guides, consider subscribing to Academy Online to access our guides for Publishing 101 and other authoring courses.

I feel trapped by publisher's online homework systems and the pre-built assignments. We can help! Even though we sell ADAPT as being a fully-customizable and versatile platform, we recommend that you start off with going in to ADAPT and choosing the "Import Course" button and search for already built courses in our database. See what it looks like out-of-the-box!

I rely on the supplemental material provided by the publisher. This is very understandable. One thing that you can try out in your class is using the textbook, itself, as a "slideshow." Try to bring up the textbook and use the images in LibreTexts's books as your images. This can help students because they know exactly where the example problem in class was (it was in the book!) and they know exactly where that one image the professor showed in class was (it was in the book!). Obviously, this does not solve all problems, and many books in LibreTexts do include Ancillary/Supplemental Materials. Use the Commons to search for books that include "Assets" (search for public or instructor-only assets).

This is just huge and overwhelming - still! We get that being a massive resource there is an intimidating learning curve. Even if you do not plan on writing a whole textbook from scratch, we suggest that simply Registering for an instructor-verified account, Creating a Conductor Project even if it's called "test", and create an empty shell of a book by clicking Create Book, clicking Open OER Remixer, and copying over a chapter or two from a book you found on LibreTexts is a great way to start. Nearly every faculty member is shocked that they can get a decent usable book for the following semester within 20 minutes of playing around by themselves.
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