Please join Howard University as they discuss open-source textbooks and tools being used to develop resources for writing open-source textbooks, resources and share research on how students and faculty use highly interactive textbooks.
Friday, October 27th
4:10- 5:00 PM (EST)
Zoom - https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2249179385?pwd=bGJHdXZYZHZ6YlFaZVhGMzlzTjFYdz09
Meeting ID: 224 917 9385
Passcode: 4GhhAL
Abstract:
The quantity and quality of open-source mathematics textbooks has grown considerably in the past decade. Not only are open-source textbooks less expensive than commercially published textbooks, but many open-source textbooks can be of equal or even better quality than their commercial counterparts. The focus of the UTMOST Project, funded by the National Science Foundation, has been to develop resources for writing open-source textbooks and conduct educational research on how students and faculty use highly interactive textbooks. Products of the UTMOST Project include PreTeXt, CoCalc, and the Sage Cell Server. PreTeXt is a markup language that allows an author to produce textbooks and all scholarly work in any discipline and in any format, including PDF, HTML, ePub, Jupyter Notebook, and braille. Currently, there are 80+ books and projects written in PreTeXt. Moreover, books written in PreTeXt can be hosted on Runestone, a platform for hosting interactive textbooks on the Internet. This presentation will focus on what we have learned about open-source textbooks and tools from the beginning of UTMOST to the present day as well as a brief look into the future.
Thomas W. Judson, Stephen F. Austin State University
Dr. Judson received his PhD in 1984 from the University of Oregon under Richard Koch and is a Professor of Mathematics at Stephen F. Austin State University. Dr. Judson taught at U. of Portland from 1984 to 2001, was Preceptor in Mathematics at Harvard University from 2002 to 2008 and has been teaching at Stephen F. Austin State University since 2008. His research interests are Mathematics Education, Differential Geometry, Lie Algebras and Lie Pseudogroups. He published about twenty articles on Mathematical Education articles and authored the following open-source textbooks: "Logic and Proofs for Teachers", "The ODEs project" and "Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications". He was a PI from 2010 to 2022 in the NSF-funded project UTMOST (Undergraduate Teaching in Mathematics with Open Software and Textbooks).
