Who Uses LibreTexts and What Types of Institutions Does It Support?

LibreTexts is used by more than 500 schools and organizations, and it is designed for educators, departments, and institutions that want to build, customize, and share open education resources (OER). It fits a wide range of teaching scenarios, from individual instructors adopting a textbook to institutional publishing and curriculum development projects.

Who Uses LibreTexts

LibreTexts reports that its platform is used by 500+ schools and organizations. Its stated audience is educators who need to create, customize, and share accessible, interactive textbooks, adaptive homework, and ancillary materials.

In practice, that means the platform serves:

• Individual instructors looking for an open textbook or a way to remix chapters into a custom course text.
• Departments and teaching teams that want shared question banks, homework, and ancillary materials.
• Institutions running open education initiatives, publishing programs, or curriculum development projects.

The site also publishes instructor testimonials, which indicates it positions itself around educator trust rather than student-facing self-study alone.

What Types of Institutions It Supports

LibreTexts describes collaboration with "individuals and organizations to champion open education initiatives, support institutional publishing programs, drive curriculum development projects, and more." That points to support for:

Because the platform spans 17 subject field libraries and over 2,000 textbooks, it is not limited to one discipline or institution type.

Teaching Scenarios It Covers

LibreTexts organizes its support around four areas: Training, Content, Development, and Technology. For teaching, the most relevant capabilities are:

• Textbook libraries — 17 subject field libraries with over 2,000 textbooks for various courses.
• Remixing — combine chapters from different books with your own material to create a custom textbook.
• Homework and assessment — ADAPT provides a shared question bank with over 240,000 openly licensed elements and adaptive assessments.
• Interactive learning materials — embed Jupyter Notebooks, ADAPT homework questions, 3D visualizations, and videos directly into a textbook.
• Ancillary materials — case studies, lab experiments, and interactive modules.

These features suit courses that need customizable, low-cost materials rather than a single fixed textbook.

How to Tell If It Fits Your Institution

LibreTexts is likely a good fit if your institution or course matches one or more of these conditions:

• You want to reduce textbook costs for students (the site cites 75M+ student savings and $3,000+ textbooks).
• You need to adapt content to your curriculum rather than assign a static textbook.
• You are running or joining an open education initiative.
• You want a shared, centralized repository for OER content across a department or institution.

If your main need is a single ready-made textbook with no customization, LibreTexts can still serve that purpose through its subject libraries, but its stronger value is in remixing, adapting, and building shared content.

Where to Start

• Browse the 17 subject field libraries to see whether your discipline is covered.
• Review the ADAPT homework system if you need adaptive assessments from a shared question bank.
• Explore the Training offerings if your institution wants professional development before adopting the platform.
• Check Upcoming Events, including the monthly webinar series, to see how other schools and organizations use LibreTexts.

The key takeaway: LibreTexts supports both individual instructors and institution-level open education programs, and its fit depends on whether you need customizable OER content, shared assessment, or both.