 answered when she was asked why she talked so fast. It's because I have so much to say. But our focus is a little different. We want to help you build with our content and your own content the perfect text for your students and your cause. So support's always important. We get support from Department of Education in the United States. We've had support from NSF, various other sources. The agenda today is to give you a taste of what LibreText is and what it isn't. It is a construction platform. It's a very special one. It's a dissemination platform with a global reach and it's a publishing platform. And it has within it tools you can use for assessment. So our libraries span the undergraduate curriculum and they can be used by faculty with minimal computer experience beyond just simply pointing to a URL. You can remix and add content quickly and simply. You can collaborate. You can make data-driven improvements to optimize learning. We have a lot of advanced features which actually turn out to be fairly simple to integrate because we have a common format. We're cloud-based. We're zero cost and we have no local IT costs. Our mission is to build this community, to use the community to create OER but not just the resources but also the platform and the portal. We want it to be comprehensive and we want to curate it at multiple levels. We're a community of faculty. Mostly we have some librarians. We have now the occasional administrator but we're mostly faculty and we're faculty-driven and we originated in STEM. So we have more of a presence in STEM and most of the people involved are STEM people. Let me go to the UNESCO definition. It's important to us. OER is teaching learning materials that are in the public domain. They have licenses that facilitate free use, adaptation, and distribution and free use is, I think, a very important part of being open. Textbooks are historically the educational resource but the cost of textbooks has become debilitating and actually the cost of textbooks has provided an opportunity for OER but it is an opportunity we have to take. There's no longer a textbook market. Publishers are no longer publishers. They're providers of online systems of ed tech and especially of homework systems that relieve the work of colleagues and ourselves who are really stressed for time because of all these other things that are pulling at them, at us. The textbook publishers have now become the ed tech providers and they're using inclusive access to kill-off competition but OER is a disrupter. Friend of mine, friend of Delmar Larson who's the executive director back in 2008 pointed out, hey, the Wikipedia killed off the encyclopedia manufacturers, publishers. This model of OER may not be as strange or silly as it sounds. Okay, so we need tomorrow's textbooks today but the textbooks, people really use textbooks as crutches. Textbooks limit curricula, they limit content development because students get very uncomfortable when you don't follow the textbook. So our mission at Libertex is to help you build the perfect text for your students and your course. When most faculty, not the people listening here, think about OER, they say, okay, I'll give my students a pointer, a URL, to an OER library and that's the textbook but that's not something that will work, not in today's world, certainly not in a COVID-19 limited situation. You have to surround the textbook with services that support and enhance the textbook. You need a homework system, you need online computation, you need JavaScript, you need learning analytics, you need, if you're going to by hand clean up every problem, it's not going to work, you need some sort of bot server, you need a way to transfer the information to learning management systems so faculty can use them. This shows in how we are organizing our homework system, we're not going to create different sets of examples of questions, we're going to use things that already exist and we're going to use H5P and other things, JavaScript to actually create the problem libraries, we're going to bring that into our content so you can display the, we're already doing this, so you can display the question inside your textbook, you can set up exercises, labs, all sorts of other things. Formatively then you can use the returns from those questions to help your students or you can create a transfer, submit of transfer of the grades to your learning management system. We just got a new grant from California Education Learning Lab to create a homework system in chemistry at first, it's going to use a linear model with static decision trees and the reason for this rather than an AI or machine learning approach is that it's a lot easier for faculty to edit this to meet the needs of their students that can change the questions around things like that. We have a centralized approach, this may annoy a lot of people, we've given up the flexibility of FOSS and other things like that, we come across online on a commercial system, it provides high stability, somebody's looking at it and if it goes down, it affects effective sharing and it makes things very easy to provide new services, I'll talk about some of them as we go on. The OER universe, one of the principal positions of faculty to OER is where do I find it? But it turns out you can slice this up, at least in the North American context, there are really only four or five places to go, there's open stacks, concentrates on high quality, low cost printed textbooks for high enrollment cost courses, they use Perl, they have an online site but it's kind of getting weaker, Lumen concentrates on providing complete courseware at a per seat per cost cost, you can bulk buy from them, SUNY Open SUNY did that, Pressbooks provides a refrigerator, they also provide, it's very important, they provide free FOSS Pressbook software to create OER and you've got us. So we're a university-based collaboration, we're becoming a nonprofit network so it becomes easier for other institutions to join together and we use a WikiLite system which is provided by MindChess, touch. There are refertories and repositories and there are all nationals or large ones and there are local ones and the local ones often provide services to build out textbooks, some small grants and things like that, regional hubs. Our approach is that the content should all be interconnected, not in separate books, that we wanna integrate what's already out there into a common format that can be cross-referenced and we can add meta tags. Properly meta tagging we've instituted this now allows us to actually create indices for every book using the index. So right now it's only in a couple of libraries and a little while probably by the end of April we can have it everywhere that if a text is properly meta tagged, you can automatically generate an index and the glossary. When a student comes in, they will see this picture here, if you come over here, you can get an account. Your students can get an account, that lets them do some useful things but you can request an instructor account so you can work to create your own textbook. The bookshelves are centrally curated, we have over 100,000 pages of content across the curriculum. Local courses are found on the course shell page and this just shows a typical page, there are two things I wanna point out. If you have a book and you correct on the star, or actually if you can elect for any book, the system will send you an email when anything on this page is altered. Over here, you can print out any page and here's hypothesis, so you can annotate the page. The editor is fairly simple, I think most people have seen editors like this. You can use anything that has Unicode so you can do Chinese, Japanese, any ideographic language. If you try and copy anything in Libertex, you'll get a message saying what the license is. We know about the five Rs. But the five Rs are rights of creators. We believe that there are two other Rs. I'm sorry, well, there's accessibility, the right to read content. There's reach, the right to read it anywheres. Our reach is global. Our demographics are probably what you would expect, mostly students. The problem, of course, with OER, online OER, is that there are regions that less than 10% of the population have access to electricity, let alone internet. So we provide books and we've done some things with the books. Every video in the book has a QR code in it. Now you can't run video in books, but you can point your smartphone at the QR code and get to the video. We're working on Libertex in a box. Every book in our library is available as a file that you can, to adjust in time printer, like Lulu, and get printed out for low costs. This is our distribution library. You can import to an LMS, you can get individual zip files of each chapter, or you can get the print book file. So we think there are seven Rs. We try to make things easy to edit, low expertise, meaningful editing, so you can change the content to match your students. We have over 100 million page views per year, 700 books. We're bringing in eight more per week. There are barriers which we've talked about previously. In other sessions, faculty think there's not enough resources, it's too hard to find, there's no comprehensive catalog. We're trying to meet these things. If faculty use a textbook, they do things that not ours, but just print a textbook, you skip sections, you teach topics in different orders, you give out some materials, you place content from other sources, and students hate all these things. So we've developed an on-ramp that will let you deal with them. This was developed at Sacramento City College by Kevin Flash. There's a two-hour institute. Faculty learn how to deal with OER and licenses. Then they work with librarians to create OER map. They check this map again, identify gaps, analyze accessibility. They deliver a course map. We then bring this into the Libertex project. We create a remixing map. So we actually identify what things have to be mixed together and we publish the text. We're trying to build this LiberNet consortium. Costs are very, very low. And there are a couple of levels of membership. Not gonna go into it too much. One of them, of course, is you get a single-click bookstore. I apologize, but this PowerPoint is not translating very well to the software here. It looks okay for mine. Okay, here's the remixer. You can basically start a new book, take material from any place, put it into your book, it will renumber properly. The figures will renumber, equations will renumber, everything like that. And you can add other things. You can take stuff out. You can take, if you're doing economics, you can put some statistics in. You may have to edit that. And then you can publish it. And when you publish it, you get a book. The book is mostly a pile of links, but you can translate that into HTML automatically. And then you can edit the HTML. So a little bit, I think I have one minute left, a little bit on basically analytics. This was from my course a while ago. The students thought the book was okay. They thought that it met the need. And would you recommend it? Yeah. Okay. You can get some very easy to find analytics out of Google Analytics. This is a traditional course. You can see where the exams are. But if you teach a flipped course, it's not so clear where the exams are. Now, one interesting thing is that the web search engines find the material. And you can get a global reach, a branded global reach for your course. We also ran a rather serious evaluation pilot. And the outcome was what these things have mostly found that it's at least equivalent to printed textbooks. But I think the advantage of OER is that it's formative. You can use the analytics to improve it much on a much faster scale than a printed textbook. I'm not gonna go through this. The usual mind-bending table at the end of a talk. And come join us. I'm gonna go over later today to my Twitter account. And I'm gonna also take a look at the social space here. Thanks very much. Thanks for that very comprehensive overview, Josh. If there are any questions, people are, you've got quite minutes or so. If people want to raise their hand, we can pass a mic to you or you're welcome to use the chat box as well. Just give people a moment to see if they want to respond. There was one comment about what I showed had an NC research, is NC, there are various licenses. You can have an argument. These are the licenses of the creators of the material. You can have one of these arguments about, you know, these things, these definitional arguments that go on forever. We respect for the license of the creator of the material. So just to say that there will be a recording posted. And I'm just on the LibreText site now so I can share a link. So recordings will be posted on the website. We should get through those this evening of Josh's beatmate LibreText. Josh, do you find any issues with other certain sites in Europe that republish CC content but they wrap it around advertising? So they put lots of ad blocks around create commons content. Is that something you're discovering with contributors to LibreText? If you ever re-brick everything into the common format, so there are no ad blocks. But you don't find people are just lifting your content wholesale and remarketing. We are open in that sense. I believe Sailor has harvested some of our content, at least. But that's one of the things you have to live with if you try and be open at any level. That's great. So I think actually our next presentation probably follows on quite nicely. So we can just show you our appreciation for Josh. Some applause.