2025 MAA Section Meeting: My Journey into OER

My work

• Slides from the talk
• Math 149: Explorations in Modern Math
• Math 304: Abstract Algebra I

Getting Started

• Getting started with PreTeXt
• Iowa OER, a statewide OER initiative with educational modules

Collections of Existing OER

• American Institute of Mathematics Open Textbook Initiative
• OpenSTAX, a collection of open educational resources (a part of Rice University)
• LibreTexts, a collection of open educational resources
• Iowa OER curated list (by course)
• OER Commons
• University of Minnesota Center for Open Education
  • UMN Open Textbook Library
  • UMN Open Education Network

Authoring OER

• PreTeXt, the authoring language I use
• PreTeXt codespace – try it out! (GitHub account needed)
• Prefigure – an authoring tool for building accessible mathematical diagrams
• Manifold
• Doenet – build interactive activities
• Manim – create 3b1b-style animations