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UTMOST Undergraduate Teaching in Mathematics with Open Software and Textbooks Search Menu PreTeXt Sage Cell Repository Open Textbooks Research Posters Presentations Publications Contact Home UTMOST: Call for Participation - May 2020 Deadline extended to June 30, 2020. The UTMOST project is looking for mathematics faculty to teach sections of calculus, linear algebra, or abstract algebra in Spring or Fall 2021 or Spring 2022. Read more... PDF versionThe UTMOST Project The focus of this project funded by the National Science Foundation is to understand how students and faculty actually use textbooks in undergraduate mathematics courses and to use that understanding to produce textbooks that are more effective in promoting student learning. The major components of the project involve education research, resource development, dissemination, and evaluation. The education research concentrates on the use of textbooks in calculus, linear algebra, and abstract algebra, which are courses that are taught in every mathematics department. The experimental course sections use highly interactive online textbooks, while the control sections use more traditional textbooks. The online versions work with a tracking system to provide data about the time and duration of individual student attention—suitably anonymized—to the various parts of the textbook at a detailed level. The resource development includes substantial work to make PreTeXt (formerly MathBook XML) more capable and comprehensive with all the features needed for textbooks and all scholarly work in any discipline. The project’s editorial work involves improving and enhancing several open source textbooks with copy editing, creation and integration of WebWork problems and the development of a repository for Sage cells for sharing and reuse. Our dissemination plans include presentations at meetings, workshops for authors and editors, and continuing work by the AIM Editorial Board evaluating open source/access textbooks. Continual and ongoing evaluation is an integral part of the project and will be overseen by an external evaluator and an advisory board. The UTMOST project is now in its third round of funding, beginning in September 2018 and continuing until September 2022. Project summary in PDF Getting the UTMOST out of Open-Source Resources Audrey Malagon, editor of the MAA’s blog DUE Point, talks to Rob Beezer about taking advantage of open resources in mathematics and about the UTMOST project. Read the article. Math to Braille made easy! An outcome of UTMOST is a system for converting math books to Braille with minimal overhead. Using PreTeXt as the source, books can be produced in multiple output formats (HTML, PDF, ePUB) and now Braille. Read the full story or listen to a brief podcast from public radio in Tacoma. News stories Recent articles from the news media about textbooks, prices and accessibility, open educational resources What’s new? UTMOST Related Presentations at the JMM, Denver 2020 UTMOST 1 The first UTMOST project (2010 to 2014) is where this all began. Results of that project were SageMathCloud : a comprehensive cloud computing environment for education and scientific computing. In 2017 it was renamed CoCalc . Sage Cell Server : embed live computations into any webpage. MathBook XML: a framework for writing mathematical material to publish in a variety of formats. Sage Education Workshops: workshops for learning how to use Sage in education AIM Open Textbook Initiative: quality open-source textbooks. More about UTMOST 1 Partial support for this work was provided by the National Science Foundation's Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) program under Award No. 1626455. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science...