Final ALX Cohort to Save Students More Than $300,000

Professor Millar plans to replace unwieldy music textbooks with a curated set of open and digital music. Digital presentation allows for linking to additional resources, portability and increased ease of use.

Together with a team of instructors and staff from the Newark campus, Professor Goodell will transition her course from textbooks, online homework systems and written lab manuals to a combination of openly-licensed and originally authored material, which will include homework questions, videos and lab exercises.

Professor Hopson will undergo course redesign to center student learning around a case study approach. These case studies will ask students to engage with foundational concepts in new and more interactive ways.

Over the course of this project, Professor Jayakumar will create a textbook substitute that focuses on problem solving using MATLAB software. This book will be developed with special attention to the difficulty of the material and will be written for students with no previous knowledge of the topics.

DESIGN 3105 Exploring Design Thinking
Professor Fromme will use his grant winnings to assemble toolkits for his students that will allow them to examine complex, multi-dimensional problems in hands-on ways. Thanks to theses kits, will students spend less every semester on supplies.

DESIGN 3505 Presentation as Thinking
Over the course of the project, Professor Fromme will replace a required textbook with a collection of openly-licensed learning materials.

Professor Lindsey plans to replace a series of costly course materials with a carefully curated open textbook and instructor guide. These materials will feature video content that can be shared amongst instructors who teach the course.

Professor Mathur intends to develop a series of online text paired with animations and exercises to instruct students in basic physics courses. The animations will be original and tied specifically to the course material.

In order to replace a required homework system, Professor Durand intends to create a series of interactive homework problems using open source software. These exercises will be authored using various open and library-licensed images and videos.

Over the course of this project, Professor Pek will replace a conventionally published textbook with a combination of materials, including originally authored text, free statistical software and custom built-interactive web applications.

Professor Ryan intends to redesign her course to center podcasting as the primary student learning materials, allowing students to become engaged in both consumption and creation.

In order to replace a costly textbook, Shaffer will utilize originally-authored text paired with links to existing videos, lectures and real-world examples of course topics.

Professor Terndrup intends to redesign two courses with a combination of existing open text and newly developed learning activities, statistical tools and computer programming exercises.

Over the course of this project, Professor Teston will assemble a collection of materials and original videos that will allow for a redesign of the course curriculum that will define and describe a decolonial approach to technical writing.

In order to replace a conventionally-published textbook, Professor Waller will create an originally-authored online book that closely follows the course’s objectives. This work will be supported by Ximera, a tool already popular in Ohio State’s Mathematics Department.

Professor Winstead is planning to replace a costly anthology of literature with a series of open-access readings enriched with annotations and other guiding material. She also intends to develop sets of study questions and exercises to support the student learning experience.

Professor Weiser plans to replace a traditional textbook with a collection of open access materials that are tailored for the student population.

Over the course of the project, Professor Van Gray will assemble a robust collection of open textbooks, lab activities and supplementary media to replace a costly traditional textbook.

Dr. Jaggars has already begun to curate a collection of materials that are available through Ohio State University Libraries subscriptions, and these will replace a traditional textbook.

Thanks to his efforts on this project, Professor Keller will avoid the assignment of a textbook by curating a collection of open content used in combination with originally-developed learning materials.

Professor Lewis intends to create a lending library for his students, offering single board computers and microcontrollers, along with supporting materials. This library will allow more students to have access to technology that might have been out of reach due to cost.

Professor Atanassova will replace the current learning materials with a curated collection of free and easily-accessible online resources.