I want to begin by thanking Shawna Brandle and Rina Yarmish for their unwavering support in my role as OER liaison within the mathematics department. I truly appreciated the opportunity to meet with everyone who shares a mutual passion for developing OER content. It is a great pleasure to work alongside many faculty/staff members across different disciplines. This semester has been exceptionally busy for me, with two major OER projects taking the forefront: Introducing WeBWork: I’ve been working diligently to introduce WeBWork, an online homework system tailored for math and science, to our department. Despite some technical challenges, including the pending setup of a local server with IT support, I’ve…

At KCC, we adopted online teaching as a crucial response to the pandemic. Over time, we’ve grown accustomed to this digital approach, appreciating its flexibility for both students and faculty. Leveraging technology, we integrated Blackboard with various publishers and utilized diverse video conferencing software. Despite the initial learning curve, our transition was quite smooth. I have always been a fan of teaching with technology. While working on my OER project, I stumbled upon a realization: KCC lacked an online homework system specifically tailored for math courses. As a math professor, I’ve received numerous inquiries from students seeking practice problems with solutions. While many practice problems exist online, finding ones with…

Hi all! I am a new member of Kingsborough CC’s Mathematics department. I am passionate about providing open educational resources for students to use and have been a supporter of OER. It is no surprise that students don’t like to read math textbooks. Over the past few years, I noticed something interesting while teaching math courses. During remote learning, students enjoyed having the lecture notes shared by the instructor because they had more time allocated for class engagement. The students likely experienced that sometimes they were too busy copying what was written on the blackboard to listen to what the instructor was lecturing. As an experiment to promote student learning,…