Physics
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Astronomy
Our astronomy prof was impressed by the OpenStax text. Does anyone already have a curated collection of supporting materials - quiz pools, videos, interactives?
There are three different places you can check for resources:
On the Astronomy book page, scroll down to “Instructor Resources” https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy .
We have free Powerpoint slides, an Instructor Answer Guide, other sequencing of the course, etc. To gain access to these, the professor will need a faculty-verified account. They can apply here: https://accounts.openstax.org/login?client_id=29a93813f3a9d25a8a67d903c679594b63f43bdf8349470999b8c334439c7f55 Note: It can take up to 3 days, as we do manually verify each faculty member. Once approved, the professor can log-in and download those resources.
Below “Instructor Resources” on the page above, there are “Partner Resources” that list the homework, courseware, clicker, etc. providers who provide services around the book for a small fee (most are $40 or less)
There are also a lot of additional free instructor resources in the OER Commons Hub for the book, including labs and activities. They can get to the hub by clicking on “Community Resources” on the main book page. There’s a wide variety of additional resources faculty who use the book have donated back to OpenStax that are listed on this page. Once the professor creates an account and joins the community, the professor will also be able to download any of these that they’d like.
You may also want to check out the list of supporting materials that were identified through the work of a PCC instructor working with Distance Education to make an online course more accessible.
This is the page from the conference session:
https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/conference-presentations/see-stars-making-astronomy-classes-accessible
This is the link to the handout with resources:
https://www.qualitymatters.org/sites/default/files/presentations/seeingstars_resources_sorense
See Stars: Making Astronomy Classes Accessible to Visually ...
www.qualitymatters.org
Physics instructor has worked for a full year with Distance Education's Accessibility team, to make his NASA grant funded, online Astronomy courses (PHY 121, 122 and
This is the link to the handout with resources:
https://www.qualitymatters.org/sites/default/files/presentations/seeingstars_resources_sorensen.docx
We are looking for OER materials for astronomy lecture and lab. Any and all input is appreciated!
Andrew Fraknoi from Foothill College along with others wrote an OpenStax one: https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy
We use the Openstax book here as well. Also, one of the instructors has for several years had students in the course conducting undergraduate research. The work is then shared openly on this site:
https://sites.usask.ca/astr104/
Our Introduction to Astronomy OER course is up in Lumen Learning – made possible by the Achieving the Dream OER grant:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/catalog/achievingthedream
I am working with an astronomy instructor who is teaching a class on Ancient Astronomy essentially. It is a mixture of ethnology and archaeology mixed with astronomy.
I am having trouble finding OER materials for Ancient Hawaiian Astronomy. Ancient probably isn’t the right word, maybe historical or cultural. Regardless we are trying to find info on native Hawaiians astronomical practices and lunar calendar.
We are also trying to be DEI conscious and hopefully have the material created by someone from the Hawaiian culture.
I know this is a stretch, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
While I do not expect you will find much openly-licensed content, there are likely to be freely accessible resources shared by various groups at the University of Hawai'i.
I would reach out to the folx at the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and the UH Institute for Astronomy.
There is a research guide for astronomy available through our library, but much of the content is Western/contemporary and likely isn't what you need.
Something to also consider is inclusion of content related to wayfinding, perhaps by contacting the Polynesian Voyaging Society, known throughout the world for the voyages of the Hokule'a.
“Most of the materials I've seen have been hands-on activities led by staff at 'Imiloa or PVS (Polynesian Voyaging Society). At Manoa, there is a module on wayfinding developed by CRDG at the College of Education, available at
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/physical/navigation-and-transportation/wayfinding-and-navigation
Hawaiian Studies has a whole class on this, HWST281, but I don't see materials for it online anywhere.”
Astronomy and calendar:
“I would say the best, most recent, and complete example of the state-of-the-art in archaeo-astronomy in Hawaii is in this volume:
Heiau, ‘Aina, Lani: The Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupo, Maui by Patrick V. Kirch and Clive Ruggles.
The other resources I can recommend are the Polynesian Voyaging Society who obviously are focused on the navigational side of astronomy, and the 19th century Hawaiian historians who described the calendar, David Malo is a good one to start with. This source let's you search, here is his list of lunar months:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/aja1759.0001.001/69?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=lunar ”
Calculus Based Pysics
I have a faculty member who has looked at the OpenStax University Physics series,
but is wondering if there are any other advanced calculus-based physics texts that faculty seem happy using.
We (LibreTexts) have collected quite a few University physics OER texts here:
https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics
These OERs have been standardized for easy remixing if your faculty want to customize their book on our platform.
Let me know if you need any assistance with our corpus or tools.--
Electricity and Magnetism
I’m looking for some OER for a 1st year physics course for a course on electricity and magnetism, with a heavy emphasis on circuits for engineering students.
Try the new open stax text on the subject - I also have materials that I can share
Hi Heather, a few OER that are in use in Oregon community colleges:
Basic Electronics 1: DC Circuit Analysis playlist
All About Circuits, Vol.1: Direct Current (DC)
LBCC in-house videos
Just ran across this while reading Choice reviews. I think it requires a login that you get from the book. Not sure.
Povey, Thomas. Professor Povey's perplexing problems: pre-university physics and maths puzzles with solutions. Oneworld, 2015. 374p ISBN 9781780747750pbk, $26.99
[CC] Povey (engineering, Univ. of Oxford, UK) collects his favorite "pre-university" problems in math and physics and presents them informally in a welcoming style. Povey writes that the problems are "devised to encourage curiosity and playfulness." (Yes, they do.) He asserts that working through the problems will better prepare precocious students for university study. (Yes, they will.) For Povey, the desired outcome is confidence in how to reason through problems. Topics include geometry, statics and dynamics, electricity, gravity, optics, heat, buoyancy, estimation, kinematics, and circular, harmonic, and perpetual motion. Povey created many of the problems himself; others were gathered from colleagues or are well-known classic problems. He uses a ranking system of one star for universally approachable to four stars for extremely challenging. Fictional stories introduce some problems, and for many problems, the author offers useful context—how he was introduced to the problem and why it is important and interesting. Footnotes provide even more background concerning history and deeper connections to math and physics. Solutions, which follow each question, are complete and well reasoned, but much can be learned from Povey’s comments, independent of the solutions. Bonus problems and a puzzle forum are on a companion website, Perplexing Problems: Bringing Maths & Physics to Life(http://perplexingproblems.com). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; students in two-year programs; researchers/faculty; general readers.
Lab Resources
We’re looking for some Physics labs to complete our 2 Physics OER courses: General Physics I and II.
Phet has some great simulations as well as OER faculty resources.
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics