Annual LibreFest Workshop Registration Now Open

This year's annual LibreFest workshop hosted by LibreTexts will be held virtually the week of July 8-12, 2024. Sessions will begin at 9 am PST on Monday. Office hours will be held everyday from 8-9 am. There will be time for questions and reflections at the close of each day's sessions (3-4 pm)

If you do not already have a LibreTexts account, you will be prompted to create one during this registration process.

This virtual workshop will provide four and a half days of teaching and working sessions covering: how to create Open Education Resources (OER); how to edit/modify existing OER to build textbooks and other learning resources; how to use our Conductor project management platform with our new Workbench; and our ADAPT open homework and assessment system. We will also hear Success Stories from LibreTexts super users each day.

The registration fee for this workshop is $35 and includes a LibreTexts shirt and other small swag. Please use the payment link at the end of this form to pay once you have registered here. Fee waivers are available for current LibreNet members; please note no swag will be offered when using the fee waiver option. Please email Jennifer Rogers, LibreTexts Outreach Coordinator, at jrogers@libretexts.org for the waiver code.

This registration will close no later than July 5, 2024. Capacity is limited; register today!

Keep reading for the entire LibreFest 2024 schedule (note: schedule is subject to change).

Day 1 (July 8): Introduction to ADAPT

Intro to LibreVerse (9:00-10:00)  Delmar Larsen

Success story (10:00-10:30)  Cristina Moon (Chabot College)

Break (10:30-10:45)

ADAPT intro (10:45-12:00) Delmar Larsen

Lunch (12:00-1:00)

ADAPT intro to assignment (1:00-1:30) Delmar Larsen

Breakout rooms (1:30-3:00)  

Rooms based on types of functionality (Goals: make a course, make assignments, add questions to assignments, cloning an assignment)

Reflections and Questions (3:00-4:00)  

Please answer the following questions in the appropriate threads in the LibreFest 2024 Conductor project: 

What did you  learn?

What did you like?

What needs more clarification?

Day 2: ADAPT 

Office hours (8:00-9:00)

Mastering Open Licensing (9:00-10:00)  Delmar Larsen

Success story (10:00-10:30)  Thomas Gisel (College of the Canyons)

Break (10:30-10:45)

ADAPT Integration and student facing (10:45-11:15) Delmar Larsen and Cristina Moon

ADAPT Learning Trees (11:15-12:00) Delmar Larsen 

Lunch (12:00-1:00)

Breakout rooms (1:00-3:00)

Build a 3-pronged learning tree

Reflections and Questions (3:00-4:00)  

Please answer the following questions in the appropriate threads in the LibreFest 2024 Conductor project: 

What did you  learn?

What did you like?

What needs more clarification?

Day 3: Remixing 

Office hours (8:00-9:00)

Introduction to Construction Workflow: Conductor, Workbench, Remixer (9:00-10:00) Josh Halpern

Success story (10:00-10:30) Roy Simpson (Cosumnes River College)

Break (10:30-10:45)

Introduction to Remixing and the Remixer (10:45-12:00) Delmar Larsen

Lunch (12:00-1:00)

Breakout rooms (1:00-3:00) 

Remixing 

Reflections and Questions (3:00-4:00)  

Please answer the following questions in the appropriate threads in the LibreFest 2024 Conductor project: 

What did you  learn?

What did you like?

What needs more clarification?

Day 4: Editing

Office hours (8:00-9:00)

Introduction to Basic Editing (9:00-10:00) Josh Halpern

Success story (10:00-10:30) Frank Paiano (Southwestern College)

Break (10:30-10:45)

Advanced Editing and Accessibility (10:45-12:00)  Delmar Larsen

Lunch (12:00-1:00)

Breakout rooms (Remixing and Editing) (1:00-3:00)

Reflections and Questions (3:00-4:00)  

Please answer the following questions in the appropriate threads in the LibreFest 2024 Conductor project: 

What did you  learn?

What did you like?

What needs more clarification?

Day 5: The Greater LibreVerse

Office hours (8:00-9:00)

Introduction to the Greater LibreVerse (9:00-9:30) Delmar Larsen

Campus-Wide Activity - Coalinga College (9:30-10:00) Rachel Fleming

Success story (10:00-10:30) Armeda Reitzel (CSU Humboldt)

Break (10:30-10:45)

Upcoming Attractions - Antecedent Writing (10:45-11:15) Raymond Oenbring

  Academy and AI (11:15-12:00) Delmar Larsen 

Reflections and Questions (12:00-1:00)  

Please answer the following questions in the appropriate threads in the LibreFest 2024 Conductor project: 

What did you  learn?

What did you like?

What needs more clarification?