ADAPT and Studio: Building the Textbook of the Future with Next Generation OER Homework System

Presenter Information

Delmar S. Larsen, LibreTextsFollow
Josh Halpern, LibreTextsFollow

Presentation Type

Presentation

Location

Zoom

Event Website

https://studio.libretexts.org

Start Date

17-4-2024 3:00 PM

End Date

17-4-2024 3:55 PM

Description

One of the principal limiting factors in large scale adoption of OER is the absence of comparable free or low-cost homework platforms to complement existing and developing OER textbooks. This presentation addresses the LibreTexts efforts to remove this barrier by building and expanding the open-source ADAPT homework system - a central component of the "LibreVerse" ecosystem of courseware technologies - to supplant existing for-profit commercial systems. ADAPT is designed as a centralized OER question bank (>150 k questions) that combines adaptive learning incorporating learning trees with culturally responsive pedagogy for advanced use. We will demonstrate how instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in LMSs, LibreTexts textbooks, in a standalone web application, and in-class clickers. Discussions will demonstrate how the ADAPT empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities.

Author Bios

Delmar Larsen is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and the Biophysics Graduate Group in the University of California, Davis. Larsen is the Founder and Director of the LibreTexts project consisting of more than a dozen independently operating and interconnected libraries that focus on augmenting post-secondary education in STEM fields, social sciences, and humanities. LibreTexts is one of the world’s most visited online educational resources.

Josh Halpern is Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Howard University and Chief Operating Officer of LibreTexts, a major online source of open textbooks and other open educational resources. His research centered on chemical physics with excursions into materials science, climate studies and photobiology. Halpern was the founding director of the DC Space Grant Consortium. He administered NASA GSFC Faculty Fellowship Programs and was PI and Director of the NSF funded Partnership for Research and Education in Materials at Howard which brought together Johns Hopkins and Prince Georges Community College (PGCC), and later Gallaudet and Cornell University. During his career he collaborated with a diverse range of faculty and students at institutions ranging from community colleges, research universities, minority serving institutions including HBCUs, those for the hearing disabled and primarily undergraduate institutions. Currently as an adjunct at PGCC he helps develop new STEM curricula using OER to improve retention and articulation.

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