LibreFest 2027

LibreFest 2027: Building on a Record-Breaking Year

For more than a decade, LibreFest has been the centerpiece of the LibreTexts year. It’s where OER textbooks get their start, homework assignments get built, and educators find collaborators across institutions and disciplines. In 2026, we took a big step: LibreFest grew from a single-track training week into a full online conference, with hands-on workshops alongside presentations, community showcases, panel discussions, and collaborative sessions. More than 200 of you joined us, and with the help of our volunteers it was the biggest LibreFest yet!

LibreFest 2027 builds on that momentum. Join us online July 12-16, 2027 for a week of learning, building, and sharing across the LibreVerse. We’ll continue to cover the foundations, including creating and remixing OER textbooks, managing projects in Conductor and Workbench, and authoring open homework in ADAPT. We’ll also dig deeper into the tools that generated so much excitement last summer: the Forge for open pedagogy and writing, our Jupyter infrastructure for computational courses, and Ask Benny, our AI-powered Socratic learning assistant that answers student questions directly from your LibreTexts materials. Expect more success stories from educators doing remarkable things with OER, and more sessions on AI, accessibility, and assessment.