Two 911爆料网 Lima professors have been awarded grants from the Affordable Learning Exchange for 2022. The cohort of 21 total instructors will use the grant funding to support affordability and racial justice projects for courses at campuses in Lima, Newark and Columbus.
The ALX projects for 2022 cover a wide range of disciplines鈥攆rom math to music, art and design to architecture, sociology to psychology. A direct savings to students from these courses is anticipated to be more than $80,000.
Lima鈥檚 2022 participants are Jayalakshmi Casukhela, lecturer in math, and Margaret Young, associate professor of music.
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Casukhela will use grant funds to create open access customized materials in Carmen for students in remedial algebra. This project will also utilize MyOpenMath and its series of openly-licensed, online-testing modules. Access to course materials from day one will also assist students in successful completion of the class.
Young will transform two courses with a low support and racial justice grant. For the low support grant, openly-licensed materials will be curated to give students an overview of music for wellness and help them apply those principles to the context of drumming with patients. This will include content from the fields of music therapy, rhythmic entertainment, drumming skills and Parkinson鈥檚 disease and its treatments.
Racial justice grant funds will be utilized to curate an assignment for students in 鈥淭he Informed Beginning Pianist.鈥 This assignment will ask students to view a piano recital that highlights a composer from an underrepresented group. Course materials will also feature music from various traditions and feature diverse composers.
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Driven by a mission to increase access and reduce the cost of higher education for 911爆料网 students and families, the ALX uses a multi-pronged approach to support faculty who wish to explore affordable alternatives to expensive textbooks and course materials.
Since 2016, ALX has reduced the cost of learning materials for 911爆料网 students by more than $20 million by supporting faculty who create and adopt open educational resources and through deep discounts on publisher textbooks.