Open Education Week

Intro to the LibreTexts LibreVerse
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
If you’ve heard of LibreTexts but aren’t quite sure where to start, this one’s for you. Join a member of our team for a guided tour of the “LibreVerse,” our full ecosystem of free, open tools we’ve built to support educators and students at every stage of their learning journey.
We’ll walk you through our repository of over a million pages of OER content; our Remixer that lets you take any of it and make it your own; Conductor and Workbench for keeping your projects and teams on track; and ADAPT, our open homework and assessment platform; and more.

Open to All: Accessibility in the LibreVerse
2026-03-03 10:30 - 11:30
Open education only works if everyone can access it. That’s why LibreTexts is currently conducting a comprehensive accessibility audit of our platform and features, with the results shaping both our updated conformance documentation and a clear roadmap to remove barriers for students and content authors alike.
Our goal is to meet or exceed the Revised 508 Standards and WCAG 2.1 AA because accessibility isn’t a checkbox, it’s a core part of what it means to build education that truly belongs to everyone. Accessibility conformance documentation is already available, and we encourage anyone who encounters an accessibility concern to report it directly to us. We also provide a full suite of authoring tools to help content creators build with accessibility in mind from the start.

LibreTexts ADAPT: Homework Reimagined
2026-03-04 11:00 - 12:00
ADAPT, LibreTexts’ open homework and assessment platform, is designed to do exactly that. Join our Founder and Executive Director, Delmar Larsen, for a guided tour of everything ADAPT has to offer:
– 240,000+ openly licensed questions
– Adaptive Learning Trees and personalized learning models
– Built-in analytics and an Early Warning System powered by predictive analytics
– Seamless LMS integration with Canvas and Blackboard
– Mobile clicker functionality right in your classroom
– Support for WebWork, IMathAS, H5P, and Native QTI
ADAPT is built to be more powerful than traditional publisher platforms and more affordable. Because the cost of a homework platform should never be a barrier to student success.
This is open education in action. Come see what it looks like.

ADAPT and AI: An Instructor's Success Story
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:00
This session demonstrates practical ways to build and deploy homework in LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK algorithmic problems.
WeBWorK uses a complex Perl-based language called PG, and writing questions in PG can be challenging. Most PG examples online focus on math, physics, and engineering. As a life science professor, I want to bridge that gap by bringing algorithmic biology problems, which are often more descriptive than numerical, into LibreTexts ADAPT using WeBWorK.
In this session, I will show new instructors how to use AI to turn a conceptual homework idea into a fully functional WeBWorK problem, without needing to know how to code. The talk will demonstrate how large language model agents such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can produce working WeBWorK problems when given solid documentation and required to check output using a local renderer.
A brief course case study will show how a problem concept can become a working WeBWorK assignment through an iterative workflow.

A Community Like No Other: LibreTexts Academy and LibreNet Consortium
2026-03-05 12:00 - 13:00
The LibreTexts Academy is the professional development hub of the LibreVerse, designed for faculty who are serious about open education but don’t have unlimited time to figure it all out alone. Whether you’re adopting an existing open textbook for the first time, or building a fully custom course from the ground up, the Academy meets you where you are and takes you where you want to go.
Monthly webinars, twice-weekly office hours, and self-paced training modules cover everything from getting started with ADAPT to remixing content to making your materials accessible. For those ready to go deeper, cohort programs, in-person workshops, and instructor certifications let you build real expertise and walk away with credentials to show for it.
The goal is simple: spend less time troubleshooting and more time teaching. Your students pay less. Your course feels like yours.
The LibreNet Consortium is a community of passionate educators dedicated to growing sustainable open education initiatives at their institutions. No matter where you are in your journey to bring down the cost of education, and create more equitable pathways for your students, the LibreNet Consortium provides the tools you need to ensure your efforts are sustainable for the road ahead.
Whether you connect with us through Academy or the LibreNet (or both!), you will join a community that’s been doing this work — together — for decades.

The Future is Now: LibreTexts and AI
2026-03-06 11:30 - 12:30
The intersection of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) is still emerging, but momentum is growing rapidly. An important step forward came last year with the launch of the AI Co-Author tool, designed to support OER development and improve accessibility remediation. Building on this progress, the LibreTexts development team has introduced a comprehensive AI Initiative to expand and deepen AI integration across the LibreVerse ecosystem.
This presentation reviews the current state of AI development within LibreVerse, highlighting tools already underway and early implementation efforts. It outlines short-term goals focused on pilot programs, platform integration, and faculty support, as well as a long-term vision for a scalable, interoperable, and equity-centered AI infrastructure that advances teaching and learning nationwide.
Planned innovations include context-aware AI tutors embedded in digital textbooks; automated generation and evaluation of formative homework; AI-supported writing and research tools; and AI-guided coding and data science assistance within Jupyter environments. By embedding adaptive tutoring and personalized learning support throughout LibreVerse, the initiative aims to reduce equity gaps and broaden access to high-quality resources. Instructors will gain AI-assisted tools for content creation, grading, analytics, and pedagogical insight, supported by professional development. Grounded in LibreTexts’ OER framework, the initiative emphasizes transparency, interoperability, and evidence-based evaluation to ensure responsible and effective AI integration in open education.
