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Description
Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available teaching materials which can be used by instructors and their students to supplement or replace traditional large publisher textbooks and other resources. This can reduce cost, and increase accessibility, to the resources required for students in university physics courses. As introductory physics course enrollment grew over the past decades, large publisher textbooks have been common for both the textbook content, and the online software they provide to facilitate the submission and grading of course assignments (as traditional assignment submissions became unfeasible to grade with typical TA resources). Therefore a barrier to using OER in large introductory physics courses is a matter of both a) the course content and b) the grading resource problem. In this talk we will discuss the implementation of OER material into multiple large introductory physics courses, and different ways the grading resource problem has been addressed in these courses. We will then discuss preliminary results from a multi-year study on this implementation, for both Science and Engineering large introductory physics courses.
| Keyword-1 | Open Educational Resources |
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| Keyword-2 | Physics Education Research |