Join us at Open Arkansas
Join us Open Arkansas where we are leading a Beginner's workshop on LibreTexts. This will include finding resources (books, supplemental material, interactives and homework). This in-person event will be led locally by Carl Greco and Zahra Zamanipour from Arkansas Tech University, and will be joined by LibreTexts' own Justin Shorb.
Create, Remix, Share: A Roadmap for Authoring an Interactive OER Textbook
Session Type: Workshop
Location: 2nd Floor, Room 218
Scroll down for the workshop schedule.
For information about Open Arkansas 2026, visit the website.
Workshop Goals
Participants can find, evaluate and reuse resources in the Commons, and know what the LibreVerse offers beyond OER books (Launchpad, Libraries, Commons).
Participants see how to remix and start authoring a text in Conductor.
Participants leave with a LibreOne instructor account, a next step, and where to get support.
Workshop Agenda (60 min)
Time | Segment | What happens |
|---|---|---|
2:45-2:50 (5) | Welcome and Introductions | Short intro & LIbreOne Check-in |
2:50-2:55 (5) | LibreTexts: We are much more than Textbooks! | What publishers provide: content, technology, development, support. LibreTexts as the LibreVerse: ADAPT, Studio, Jupyter, Forge, Connections, Conductor, Academy. |
2:55-3:00 (5) | Finding Resources: Textbooks, Ancillary materials, and Homework. | Quick walk-through demoing how to get to various parts of the LibreVerse. For a chance to get a jumpstart, feel free to watch this slightly longer introduction video on YouTube. |
3:00-3:15 (15) | Finding resources in the Commons and Building Textmaps | Work-through of Commons search: search by keyword, discipline and course, filter by license and format, preview a book, and its attribution. |
3:15-3:25 (10) | Hands-on: find resources in the Commons for your courses. | Attendees search the Commons for chapters or pages they could use in their own course, using the filters from the demo. |
3:25-3:35 (10) | From Textmap to Remixing | Start a project, drag chapters from the Library Panel to the Remix Panel (auto-numbering and auto-attribution), edit a page, run the real-time accessibility checker. |
3:35-3:40 (5) | Interactives and homework preview | Quick look at ADAPT, Studio (H5P), Jupyter and Forge, and how they connect. |
3:40-3:45 (5) | Support and Next Steps | Office hours, Support Center, Connections forum, Academy. |