 Hello, my name is Josh Halpern. I'm talking to you from Washington DC. Delmar Larson is the founder and executive director of the project. And here's some contact information. And here are some examples of printed books. We're mostly online, but we do provide printed books for all of our texts. Liberatex is currently supported by a large grant from the Department of Education in the United States. We have support from California Learning Labs, Merlot, California State University's in UC Davis, as well as NASA. But this is one of my favorite sites. The oldest educational tool is recitation from there. As any academic knows writing on the wall is the second oldest. And textbooks, textbooks go back quite far. But the purpose of this talk is to convince you that Liberatex is the newest and best educational tool in the realm of texts. So a very brief discussion of what is OER. There are two things. OER is free. It's not low cost, it's free. And it's an openly licensed so that others can adapt it and use it and distribute. Liberatex is an independent nonprofit public benefit corporation. We were founded in 2008 University of California Davis. Currently about 20 institutions of higher learning are involved. We have over 100 faculty in deeply involved in project governance and curation, and many more contribute and use the context, but primarily work community of instructors and librarians. So Liberatex is dedicated to providing excellent educational materials that are really truly accessible and comprehensive across the world. So why should you be interested? Well, it's easy to create your own materials for your course and students. The library span the undergraduate curriculum and go a bit further in both directions. The instructors can remix and add content quickly and simply. We have a lot of advanced features we take. We push technology. It's zero cost to students, faculty, institutions, and we provide a uniform cloud based infrastructure, which makes it easy to curate. There are no local IT costs. We have technology that enables analysis of student learning. And that allows data driven improvement of OER to optimize for. People think of OER. They use this model. The instructor finds something interesting on the web. They point their students to it, and the students go get it and read it. This is not very far away from the textbook model going over to e-textbooks. This doesn't really provide what's needed. They can be high operating costs or network fees. I think rot is a terrible disease of such libraries and these kind of textbooks are static and they can be expensive. So there are a lot of repositories and repositories. Libertex model is somewhat different. We want the interaction between the instructor and the library to be bi-directional. We want to surround the libraries with technology services that enhance the libraries as they're used by students either directly or through a learning management system. We provide annotation. We provide homework system. Executable code that can be incorporated into the text. Learning analytics. We have bot servers that can curate the text on a technical level, cleaning up the HTML, and we provide, of course, a LTI cartridge that allows you to bring it into your LMS. Every talk has to have a slide that you can't read. Hopefully, this talk will be available later and you can pause on this and read all these things. We have over 2,000 texts with over 300,000 pages which are available for remix and this is growing rapidly. We have up to five customized campus courses for institution housed within the campus bookshelves and access again this online. Direct. We provide a commons. We provide a remix or many, many other things I'll talk about as we go on. If you need more courses for your campus. We have a network, which has $1,000 per year. Boss. This, if you remember the network to get your own commons. You get project management tools and many other things. There are some things that cost extra, basically training and access to the homework system, because this requires us to maintain additional servers and that has a cost. And we've also provide training. So, let me talk very, very briefly now about accessibility. To accessibility is many dimensional. It's easy to use by everyone everywhere. Because if you can't afford something. It's not accessible to it's technology again, the technology of the project has to match the technology that's available to the students. It's customized ability so that you can make something that's accessible to people. And it's sustainability because if something goes away. It's not accessible anymore. Again, we have a worldwide audience there are even some people are reading the text Greenland occasionally. We operate in the cloud on a commercial system that has extremely high uptime. And everything is one click and portable into your LMS. We provide PDFs. These are provided at cost again there's a printing cost, but you can download it. We're almost ready to provide a bug format. We can host the system or the text on a raspberry pi we do some of course we do some fancy stuff. But you can take this into any remote location and it serves as a Wi Fi hotspot. We just come out with a dupal based FOS app, which you call solo, which means that if you want to operate the liver text on a on your own computer, you can do that. One of the two things we do is on our textbooks, all the videos in the textbook, have a cute code, and you can point your phone at that. So, let me transition now to the second part of the talk, telling you how to use it, showing you what's there. Our team members at Sacramento City College have built an on ramp. And the idea is that you learn about we are you identify the topics you're interested in through a textbook. You create a map of these you evaluate it, you identify gaps. And we have teams of mostly students who can help you fill those gaps, find materials and bring those materials into liver text in the liver text format, and you create a map. That might look something like this. Somebody can go right down through it and trans you'll see using our remixer. It's very easy now to create a book with a map like this. And it goes into the classroom, and the hallmark of where we are is once you've got the text in the classroom, you can go back and improve it. Here's some more contact information. Leave this up for a minute or two. We do have office hours. It's 9am Pacific Daylight time. It's after dinner for people in Europe. Okay. And now I'm going to go on the net and hopefully this works. We have a comments. These are our libraries. You can see there are 14 libraries. Each textbook is can be viewed in the library. You can have an advanced search up again. Here's one textbook. If I click on any of these, I'll go to that chapter in the textbook. You can download a complete PDF. Start that off. You can buy a print copy. Really inexpensive. Obviously the postage is going to change your years. You can get it full color. You can get it with a hard cover. And these are up charges. You can download your LTI common cartridge. You can, if you're reading this book or anybody reading this book, you can submit an adoption report if it's being used for class. You can submit a peer review report. We're happy to get both of them. I showed you the library's link. There's a link to homeworks. These are available then to instructors and that. Oh, and to what's under development. Every member, if you want, and every member of the network has their own comments. You can request an instructor account. Very short form. An important thing is a URL that shows instructor. Coming back here. What I'm going to show you next is a conductor, our conductor, which is our project management tool. Let me come back here. This is my list of projects I'm working on. We have announcements. In general, we have projects. I'm going to look at this project first. This is what I'm working on. So it's not quite done. There are various properties. So I know where the original URL, this is an import from a now defunct Spanish repository. You can set up the team. You can build a timeline. Gantt chart. And sometimes it's just easier to look at the calendar view. You want to invite people in to do peer review, or you want to do a peer review. There for that project. Very interesting part here we set up an accessibility matrix that you can use to evaluate. You can import the table of contents from your liver text into the accessibility matrix, and then you can. And what we're going to do is we're going to set up. We're going to set up a bot and are going to coordinate the bot that does some accessibility review with the accessibility compliance matrix. So a lot of this will be filled in automatically. We have out here. We have an H5P instance that anyone can use. We have several thousand questions already in it. This can be sorted by area tags, authors, keywords and types. Also by license. Each question has its own CC or public domain license. And let me come back here to the comments and the libraries. And I'm going to go to the social science library. And I could go directly to any of the sections but I can also go directly to the library. And this is what a student or a reader would see. Learning objects are things that don't fit into the category of textbook teaching materials. Things like that. The bookshelves are curated by the liver text community. So for example, we have psychology and here are books. Now, we have basically brought in books from other repositories. But the key here is we spend a lot of time cleaning up the code so that we can use our automatic tools or technology on this. If we introduce new technology, then it automatically extends across the entire focus because everything has been formatted to a common standard. So here's a book. And you can go to chapter or you can go up here and go directly to any particular chapter. Now, I'm going to show you are we mixer. And I reached a remixer. I can log in that makes things a little better. I can reach the remixer. The tools menu. There it is and I'm going to put out one. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to go get. I've made my map. I'm going to go to psychology book. And my map says the first chapter is the introduction of this book. I'm just going to drag it over here. And I'm going to drag, say chapter five over. Notice that it renumbers we have an automatic renumbering option option for properly formatted books that renumbers equations. I'm going to choose pictures, everything. So I'm going to get rid of this. Okay, now let's say I wanted some statistics, statistics is important in psychology, obviously. So let's take that book. And here's the introduction. Let me put that there. I'm going to actually now create this book. This takes a few seconds. Obviously the more chapters you put in the longer it takes. And now my text is going to be available to me. There it is. And I can look here. And let's say I want to look at the basic definitions and concepts. Notice this. This is a four. What does that mean. Well, if I edit this. I haven't created another copy of the book the way it's done in many mixtures which is simply straight source places, but I created a link so there's only one copy of this. But let's say I need to change something here. I can click on the four. And now if I go to edit it. And what I'm doing is I'm editing this only in my sandbox I'm not editing the original material. And when I save it. There it is. There it is. Okay. So that's remixing. I'd like to point out. Another feature that we've introduced just about a week and a half ago, we used this earlier with a larger set of languages. And because of the emergency now we providing AI translation, automatic translation into gradient. And if I went to the next chapter that stays in Ukraine and I don't have to keep on doing that. So, some other features that I think are important. This is yet not yet fully implemented but it's coming very soon and this is a demonstration. Somebody takes a paragraph from one, one book and another book and another book and a third book, it automatically is associated with where it came from. And you can find a link to the original source title and the license. So you can do that for all of the sections in this test page. That's something that's going to push across the entire library. Very very soon. Let me show you a few other things here. Well, if you're old like me, you can make the text bigger. You can increase the margin size to make it more readable. You can go to various modes. This is the beeline reader, which helps people who have trouble reading very often you can, for example, do something like this. Go to dark mode that helps people. We have a variety of other tools. You can go to our homework system. We have a Jupiter hub. We have, you can get a citation pages and associated with the book. Over here. So each generation generate a citation to this page. Various. You can get an attribution. We can produce licensing reports for entire books, showing you what percentage has which license and where it is. That can be downloaded. That's useful. You can bookmark the page. So you can come back to it quickly. We also have some developer's tools. We have problems, examples, you can reveal the answers across the entire book. There is other things. And with that, I'm going to stop and hopefully there are some questions. If you have questions. We can always reach that info at liberatex.org. And you can always be reached at office hours. I'm on the east coast of the US. So if anybody is in Europe. It's easier to reach me at Jay Halpern at liberatex.org. And Bill Martin Larsen, who also runs the office hours is on the west coast of the US. So that's more convenient for people who are Hawaii and Asia. A lot of material on our YouTube channel. And if you want to join us. Here's the URL for joining us, although you can perhaps more easily go there simply by clicking. Thanks again.