This is a recording of a webinar given by Dr. Delmar Larsen (University of California, Davis) on June 11, 2019.

Abstract: 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. Unfortunately, rapidly rising undergraduate fees and textbook costs are serious factors that impede access to higher education for many students; many of which do not have the funds to benefit from these new advances that are often commercialized. Growing textbook costs are a serious barrier for under-served, at-risk students and open-educational resources (OER) textbooks are a growing approach to address these issues. The Libretexts project (http://LibreTexts.org) is a collaborative OER platform designed to simultaneously enable 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 12 years ago, the Libretexts has been exponentially growing and currently reaches over 60 million students per year and is the most visited online OER textbook site in the world today.