5: LibreText and Remixer

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LibreText Platform

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LibreTexts isn't just a repository or library of OERs; it is also a platform to develop and distribute your own. Developed out of the University of California, Davis, it utilizes many open-source technologies to deliver a platform for educators to create or remix content to create OERs. Deemed "the LibreVerse," its suite of tools provides several avenues for educators to create OERs in a multitude of ways. In this chapter, we will be going over how we are using it here at WWU, some of the suite of tools available, including H5P through LibreTexts Studio, and how to remix already made OERs to get started in creating a course reader.

Using LibreTexts

In chapter one, we mentioned a few other platforms that are available to publish and produce OER. Moving forward in this OER and for this workshop, we will be focusing on LibreTexts and developing skills in building OERs using its 'verse of tools and look at the developed of OERs in a hub-and-spoke modality.

Mentioned in Previous Chapter: Platforms

Pressbooks : https://pressbooks.org/

OERCommons : https://www.oercommons.org/

OpenStax (Rice) : https://openstax.org/

LibreTexts (UC Davis) https://libretexts.org/

H5P: https://h5p.org/oer-hub-coming

5.1: LibreText | Remixing
Imagine yourself as an OER DJ. A control panel of knobs and spinners in front of you, you are in control of blending in beats and musical rifts to create your own music; remixing is very similar. Granted you are not in front of a rave with a bunch of strobing lights and laser beams, but just like a DJ the Remix tool in LibreTexts lets you blend in already-made OER pages with your own content.
5.2: How to Make a LibreTexts Remix
The Remixer tool can be used for simple tasks like creating a book that consists of select chapters of an existing resource or it can be used to create complex remixes consisting of multiple resources potentially across libraries.
5.3: Transcluding (or Reusing) a Page
One of the powers of the LibreTexts Bookshelves/Course Shell system is to share content without having to copy it. Content can be added to new pages in two ways: copying (also called "forking") and transcluding (also called "reusing").
5.4: Copy-Transcluded and Copy-Forked Remixes
The OER Remixer is a self-service tool to rapidly assemble a LibreText from existing sources. The Remixer generates "transcluded" pages that mirror the original Master content. To edit the content on the new Remixed page, authors have to either edit the original material (e.g. with errors) or have to "fork" the page to copy the content from the original master page into the the new Remixed page.