 It's a pleasure to be here in beautiful Taiwan and such so nonetheless so let me introduce some of the aspects associated with our project. A lot of the way I present things is to give a lot of philosophy behind what we're doing, and I can always back it up with a lot of the details I tend to like my actions to talk more than my words. But this is one example in which I give you some philosophies on how we're doing and why I think the approach that we're doing is a valuable approach out there so let me first introduce our mission. So we're implementing a community built we are platform as comprehensive and can be curated at multiple levels so each of those words that start with C is exceedingly important for what we're doing so we're trying to build a community, and this essentially means you. And that community is not necessarily the OER community but it's the greater academic community and I'm fortunate in that I wear multiple hats so I'm the executive director and founder of the LibreTechs project, but I'm also a active chemistry professor so the OER content that we use I actively use in my classroom. And I'm also a co-chair of an OER project that's being formed in my campus at UC Davis that is pushing it to a very large community so I wear three different hats and that gives us a unique perspective I think than many other projects out there. We have OER platform, I'm going to just refer to that as free since we are, we know a lot more about OER we know that's not exactly the proper definition of that but let's just keep it at that for now. And they'd be curated and I don't know why the arrow doesn't go to curated. We basically follow a no gap left behind policy so we don't focus on content that is the lower divisional and the content that's only just the classes that have a certain amount of enrollment. So that we cover everything from start to finish depending upon what your context of that and we've used content on our site at graduate levels and even have some primary campuses that are using it. We follow a no tech left behind policy so any valid open source technology that we're able to capitalize on and integrate into our system. We do so gladly as long as it has a, at least some level of utility off it. Okay, this is, this is why it's changed I raised a couple words and moved around. So curated should be it's a living library. So that that would be the opposite of a dead library for example a link or a platform or repository of PDFs would be an example of a dead repository and it's important in order to be able to curate content because only our content like all academic content starts to age, then we need to have a mechanism to do that. So, what is the Libertex project. Well we're a construction platform provides the opportunity to build OER content. And we are a dissemination platform professional argue with the most popular dissemination platform on the net today. And we're a learning platform, which is a mechanism in order for students to capitalize on our content in order to learn effectively and also to be utilized by faculty off these things but we have a bigger picture out there so the term Libertex was originally designed in order to focus on OER open textbooks. We've expanded that scope because the concept of a textbook is changing rapidly, and it's much more than just a physical book that we used to give in the past. And we need other answering materials in order to focus on the textbook of the future. Now, so we have a core set of libraries about 13 libraries 1415 and when I look at focusing on different fields out there but we have ancillary components necessary in order to push this textbook of the future we have a homework infrastructure. We have a Jupyter notebook in order to embed executable code which is important for STEM based fields. We have Java server in order to host JavaScript server in order to host content or technology as it involves learning analytics infrastructure in order to push the learning platform. A bot server in order to be able to go through our platform because it is a curatable platform it gives us the ability in order to update our content to handle modern and emerging accessibility requirements. We have a learning management system, which I don't know why it's called TMS here, we have forums that facilitate communication of the community. And we actually have two flavors of homework system one formative and one summative and this formative summative one is based around implementing adaptive learning and culturally responsive pedagogy. And if anyone's interested I can certainly talk about that but that's not a focus of what they're just saying. And then off of what we're doing is that a we're nonprofit so we're not trying to make money off of this thing. We understand that some revenue is necessary for sustainability, but we all have day jobs because we're all in academics and most of us are faculty and use the content of this that means that we're very faculty centered in the way that we do things. And that does give a different perspective than projects that are more library and perspective a more publishing perspective or even just basically very commercialized in order to be able to gain the system in order to make a profit off of that. And these are two key aspects that I feel quite strongly is necessary in order to push both our project and I think the greater or your project or we are effort, not everyone agrees with that but that's our approach. Okay, so the Babson survey identified a range of different reasons why people don't use we are. One is the just the sheer number of we are out there. The difficulty in order to find we are the difficulty in order to catalog we are constructively, and then other ancillary materials in order to supplement that we are textbook, including the homework system and other support stuff. So the, the key point of building this Libreverse is to try to address all these issues within a single infrastructure that we have control over, and then we're able to push things forward so the way I view we are is through conflict theory so I'm a very much the glasses half full kind of guy. I feel that intrinsically, this is a competition between big publishers that have a lot of infrastructure established in order to, to, you know, profit and do everything which largely is a motivation for a lot of we are efforts but not all we are efforts. And fortunately in the last few years have been lots of small or even a medium size projects that have been funded across the globe. In order to be able to deal with us but the problem is that they don't have a centralized standard essentialized format, even communication is sometimes limited although this meeting as a one example mechanism or facilitate that. There's one mechanism and I feel in order to compete constructively with the big fish in the sea where everyone works together. Anyone who's been in academia for any period of time knows that that's never going to happen. Just because the very nature of how academics operate, or if you're outside academia have for profit entities operate. So our approach is to build a bigger fish is to take everything put it together into a central infrastructure warehouse of sorts. But I don't like using that term because we're far stronger than just a simple repository in order to be able to compete with the publisher and that means building all the components in order to build to support the textbook of the future. Let me skip over this and talk about just briefly some of the philosophy of what we're doing here. So we bring everything into or we build content, and we harvest content which is our term of taking existing OER and bringing into a platform capitalizing on the O and OER and the permissions to largely create a commons although other licenses do provide that support to and bring it into an infrastructure that's curatable and centrally localized and that's a bit of effort. But the key point is that when we want students to graduate in whatever respective institutions we want, we want the synergy of their learning to be manifested. In other words, we want them to understand how some concepts in some fields relate to other concepts in other fields. So the synergy of what they're learning, even though we teach in silos we want something much more comprehensive. And my argument is that if we want that to be instilled into our students, we need to give them the resource that reflects that synergy that connection so stop talking about building individual textbooks, and start talking about building text libraries interconnected on a college basis that are able to reflect it. You carve out certain sections for a silo because we still teach in classes, but you benefit from the, the massive network behind the infrastructure behind here. And that's essentially arguing that the textbooks reflect how we want our students to see the world. Now in constructing any sort of project, like what we're doing here we have several different approaches that can be constructed. One is a centralized approach and the other one is a decentralized approach. And you can have sort of mixtures of the two off of here and their benefits and detractions off of that centralized approach gives you high stability and high fidelity. It's effective sharing. It provides pooled resources, and it's very efficient way in order to operate. So that would be example of using essentially anything Google related that's a centralized off of that. One of those is it typically provides lack of local control, and that's local control from the base level all the way up to the top level, or to medium level that decentralized approach would be for example making software that you can then port on your individual campuses or individual computers, you can run and implement effectively provides flexibility. It has several cons it perpetuates why I refer to as a fragmented ecosystem. There are all these individual we are projects in various spots that don't talk to each other very well and results in inefficient progress moving forward in the general community because people are oftentimes replicating the wheel. Moreover, it hinders the ability to remix one of the key components of we are it requires independent resources. It's inefficient. Even though the code free and open source software may be free it's not free to implement. You still need servers you still need it and this idea that you own the pipeline from your server to your computer is largely not real either because you have to pay ISP and other things like that. So, there's a lot of issues that I feel that the fragmented ecosystem that's oftentimes pursued in terms of individualized efforts is necessary. And I want to be able to generate a platform and this is what the Libertex is doing in order to provide the positive components of the centralized platform, and the positive components that decentralized platform while neglect negating or at least reducing these red terms. So let me give you a little bit of an aspect on impact. If you are a chemist and you've Googled anything in chemistry it is physically, it's not physically it's virtually impossible to avoid a Google search of Libertex. And that applies to a great deal of other Google searches out there. So we're the most popular OER platform in the net today in terms of traffic. We've distributed 520 million. So over a half a billion page views since we started. You'll notice that COVID basically bumped us up by 100% growth in the last couple of months, which is not unreasonably expected and other projects have expressed or demonstrated several activities. So we're somewhere in the order of a million page views delivered per day. So the second percent of our traffic is in America. So the other 55% of our traffic is outside the side of America with India being our second largest and they're largely countries that have English as a native language or lingual fronk as a largely commonwealth countries out there and I can show you distribution of people are interested in that. So you'll notice here when I'm talking about impacts is I'm not talking about money. I have a pet peeve in terms of trying to quantify OER content and turn to money because I'm an educator. I don't care about the money perspective, the money perspective is only a problem because it adversely affects my mission as an instructor in the classroom, the students are not purchasing the book. Don't purchase the book then it has a detrimental effect on my educational mission. That is the only reason I care about money. The only reason I care about is how students use the resource, how it augments their educational mission, how may, for example, how many years or in this case here for millennia of confirmed students of reading, and the analytics behind the learning, not the analytics run the money. And that's my perspective but I think it's the valid perspective in terms of what OER is out there. So if you look at any of our libraries and this is an example of the chemistry library. But when you log in, actually when you log in, when you just look at it anonymously, you have two different categories. You have the stuff that's in the bookshelves and the stuff that's in the courses. This reflects this centralization, decentralization approach that we have here, where we have canonical content stored in our bookshelves, whether it's content we've constructed, content we harvested, and invariably whether it's constructed or harvested, we're constantly curating the content in order to move forward. And then we have the courses where individual campuses have individual hubs and individual hubs have individual courses and individual faculty to customize, remix and match and build whatever they want and have the control, the flexibility that they want outside or so. While it's centralized, we do not curate this content, the exception of running bots and cleaning things up in order to make sure that things follow a central standard. But we have the content in the bookshelves as the canonical repository of things. So we have somewhere in the order about 750 books that are in the bookshelves. I want to mention this very clearly. Actually, I'll be showing it in a moment here with a new slide. So I mentioned that the OER universe is fragmented. This is an example of that you can find content or links of content in the open textbook library. I need to make sure that I'm seeing chats in case I'm supposed to be going quickly. Thank you. So we have, you can find content, you find links to content in the open textbook library, which is largely a library guide. OER Commons, which is more of a refertory with some repository stuff, OpenStacks, why am I not moving here, Merlot, Open Sunny, Galileo, Open Oregon, NOBA, BC Campus, Ontario, Alberta, Hawaii, Sailor, Affordable Learning Solutions, and there's a whole slew of other content out there. So this is a need in order to centralize content. So what we are doing, or at least part of our thrusts off of here, is to take content and make it available in order to build effectively. And that building effectively is not just building from scratch, but to remix from existing content. So whenever you're building anything from scratch, you need to decide what your platform is off of there. So if you're building a house or something like that, you can build in Tinker Toys or Lego Babies, Lincoln Blocks, Duplos, Legos, Erector Sets. And you can, you can pop in various formats of websites, latech, PDFs, et cetera, if you want to make this analogy into the OER Engine. What we are doing is we're taking the content, oftentimes PDFs or other things, we rip them apart, bring them into our platform. In the database, you then can go in and edit, modify, curate, and move forward, whilst PDFs, for example, are a dead format that do not enable that. So we go through this effort so that the community doesn't have to worry about that. They can actually capitalize on it. So you come in, it's a Lego store, you can come in and you can pick and choose things effectively, and we build technology in order to enable that in order to build a book useful. We're basically assisting OER, we integrate into libraries, and then we spend a lot of effort standardizing existing formats. So the key point here is that when we harvest content, we're not just storing a PDF off of there, we're doing, going through a lot of effort to rip it apart, convert all equations into latech, make sure the format's all established, make sure it's easy in order to cut and paste, because anyone who's ever tried to cut and paste a PDF, for example, into a document understands the pain of going from one format to another format. We also have standardization of meta tags in order to be able to allow more powerful approaches off of that. So we have a handful of advanced features, visualization capabilities, embedding executable code via a Jupyter notebook system. I want to skip over the community thing. I just mentioned one last few comments here. So we have this greater Libreverse here. But its utility as a dissemination mechanism is only dictated by the dissemination tools that we have off of that. So we can disseminate into learning management systems into mobile phones, or we'll have an app that'll be coming out in a few months in order to do that, directly to LibreText. We have a LibreText in the box, which is a Raspberry Pi hotspot for developing countries. We can just basically get it and get the whole library that you have available. We have 300,000 pages of content out there or physical books. So any content that we have on our site, we have the ability and that's compiled to be able to let anyone purchase a physical book. So for my general chemistry book, normally $300 and now let students that they want to purchase it for $12 plus shipping, they can go about doing that, and that's perfectly fine. And you can see that right now of over 1200 books remixes and books. Essentially located is available for rapid on printing demand. We just basically take the money and hand it off to the printer we're not taking any money off of that that way we don't have to conflict with non commercial clauses on on the content. And it can be branded and dynamic for faculty instructors is an example of that general chemistry textbook that I'm going to be using next quarter out there. So this is a version of Libertex in a box. So this is a Raspberry Pi box costs about $45 and you can load it with the entire Libertex libraries, you can ship it off to developing country you can ship it off to submarine or the ocean could be in the, in the Andes. And as long as you have a Wi Fi enabled device you can then get access to all the content out there with a lot of the JavaScript capabilities that's available off of that. And mentioning again, we're implementing a community built OER platform is comprehensively curated at multiple levels. Hopefully you find us useful. And what we're doing with that I shouldn't mention where we got our support which is largely from federal agencies, both from the state of California from NSF from the Department of Education that's responsible in order to move our project forward, because what we believe is that OER is part of our educational mission, which means it's part of the mandate of our governments in order to support with that, I thank you for your attention.