Delmar Larsen
@LibreTexts
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Professor of Chemistry, Ultrafast Laser Spectroscopist, Founder and Director of LibreTexts, father of two daughters, two apathetic cats, and two dumb dogs.
Davis, CA
Joined October 2009
LibreTexts knows that we must first listen to and acknowledge how our colleagues and students have endured discrimination and the profound and lasting effects on them. We cannot let this time pass without change. See a fuller statement at our blog:.
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RT @darktonicgames: Another #WishlistWednesday is upon us! .Here, take this: It'll help you wishlist Blunderbusted,….
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Nice! Many believe stronger protections are needed for intellectual property, including OER content hosted online. Cloudflare serves as a content delivery intermediary for LibreTexts and has implemented a new policy that may significantly curb AI scraping.
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RT @OpenEdGlobal: #ICYMI . Catch Delmar Larsen @LibreTexts. working through this week's Demo Wednesdays Live: Delmar Larson and the Open-So….
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BTW: I just saw the prototype of the AI Author Tools we are building for building OER in the LibreTexts libraries. This will be cool when released. .
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100% correct!. ". Let's stop calling it "Artificial Intelligence" then and call it for what it is and makes "plagiarism software" because "It doesn't create anything, but copies existing works, of existing artists, modifying them enough to escape copyright laws. " - Chomsky.
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Rocking!.
I'm excited to announce that I'm co-directing a new 3-yr $2 million dollar project, Visualize Engineering Concepts Through Open Resources (VECTOR), to expand visualizations for Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. #OER.
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I think I was complimented this evening then a student found out why I have a LibreTexts shirt on. I really hope "badass" hasn't changed meaning in the last few decades.
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Hurrah! The keynote videos with @cgreen and @drclintonlisell for Cal OER 2024 are now up. This year's presentations and discussions were both insightful and engaging. Take a look! #OER #calOER
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RT @Michelson20MM: “…Knowledge is a public good, and open sharing of public goods furthers fundamental human rights.” Powerful opening rema….
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"I think OER is the wave of the future and traditional textbook publishers are just a dieing [sic] breed. What an OER text doesn't cover I make up with other materials and with case studies" from Leslie Forehand's presentation. #calOER2024.
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RT @AshTheLibrarian: This year’s @cal_oer conference opens with a bang! @cgreen’s keynote “Shifting to Community Owned & Operated Open Know….
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RT @creativecommons: Join this year's #CalOER Conference which will be held virtually August 7th-8th. This year's keynote speakers are CC’s….
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RT @JoshHalpern5: @LibreTexts Not only boring how to LibreText but a 15 min each showing what can be done with OER..
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LibreFest2024 concluded today and it was an exciting and busy week. Five days of great discussions on a broad range of topics from homework, textbooks, ancillary materials, AI, and much more If you missed this conference and have a case of FOMO check here:
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RT @AnnaRMills: Excited for this webinar on social annotation and OER tomorrow! We have 96 registered, and it's still open. It will be reco….
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I am trying to figure out if my students are really learning the right parts of my thermodynamic lectures. They left this on the board of my room before class last week.
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RT @LevitusMarcia: @LibreTexts @Marc__Watkins @AnnaRMills @Brehove I attended a meeting with Pearson reps to discuss new AI features. One i….
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Why build a textbook when you can build a "textbook of the future"! Nice to see biochem team led by Henry Jakubowski publish on their integration of interactive mathematical simulations into the "Fundamentals of Biochemistry" OER. See Biochem Mol Biol Educ
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