Happy Victoria Day! 🇨🇦

Marking the end of the long weekend with something else worth celebrating: Grav Helios Open Reader – a free, open-source, web-first open textbook platform built for open education, designed for open textbooks, course readers, and OER.

- Content you host
- Save My Place
- LMS embedding without LTI
- CMS + Git together
- No build pipeline
- Plain text export for open access

🔗 github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-skeleton-helios-open-reader

📖 #OER #OpenEd #Markdown #Grav

Summer's coming and LibreTexts mascot, Benny the Owl, has a new look! 🦉✨
Our swag store just got a refresh, with new Benny designs available for babies, kids, and adults in a variety of colors. Whether you're shopping for yourself or the little OER fan in your life, there's something for everyone. And every purchase goes directly back into LibreTexts, helping us grow.

https://swagstore.libretexts.org/shop/?orderby=date

#LibreTexts #OER #OpenEd #BennyTheOwl #FreeTheTextbook #ILoveOER

Join the LibreTexts Team the week of July 13–17, 2026 for our LibreFest workshop, where educators come together to learn, build, and share OER.

You’ll get hands-on time with the tools and workflows that make LibreTexts run:

Creating OER from scratch, Editing and remixing existing OER ,Conductor and Workbench, ADAPT, Forge, and more!

Full schedule and registration coming soon.

#LibreTexts #LibreFest #CelebrateOpen #OER #OpenEd #FreeTheTextbook #TheFutureIsOpen

I realized I hadn't updated in several years my post https://mathematikoi.net/p0/index.html on the textbook pain multiplier. Still haven't, but at least I've made the new graphs, the basic one I attach here. It shows the crazy cost increases of textbooks in the US from 1980 to 2025 hit a bit of a wobble 2017-2024 due to #OER, I assume, but then jumped way up again recently.

Note some recent BLS data is missing, I guess from US federal govt chaos.

#OpenEd #openeducation

Looking to host course content outside your LMS? Three ways to share course materials openly using Markdown:

Publish now, no setup → Paste a Markdown file URL into Docsify-This. Styled, shareable page in seconds.

https://docsify-this.net

Use GitHub? → A Docsify Open Course Starter Kit gives you your own GitHub Pages hosted site.

https://www.hibbittsdesign.org/Docsify-Starter-Kits-35c0615470e08035b161d0895099887f

Want full control? → Helios Course Hub runs on Grav CMS — browser-based admin using Markdown files.

https://www.hibbittsdesign.org/Grav-Helios-Course-Hub-2a4bc7abbf574a61a65c891d226006c4

#LMS #OpenEd

Join us for the next LibreTexts Basics for Beginners webinar, Friday, May 15 at 9 am PST. If you're brand new to the LibreVerse, or need a refresher, this one's for you!

Registration is free and the link to join will be sent upon completion of the registration form:

https://forms.gle/5hUUeVfgLstqq9k67

#LibreTexts #OER #OpenEd #FreeTheTextbook #TheFutureIsOpen #BasicsForBeginners