| Name | Georg Rieger |
| Faculty | Science |
| Year(s) | 2019, 2021, 2022 |
| Detail | 2019:Dr. Georg Rieger worked with colleagues to adapt an Open Stax Physics textbook that they put into an edX site for a first-year physics course. They not only saved students money by doing so, but also customized the book to better fit the course. Stefan was one of the authors of a research study on student perceptions and use of the open textbook for that course: The Adoption of an Open Textbook in a Large Physics Course: An Analysis of Cost, Outcomes, Use and Perceptions (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017). 2021,2022:Professor Rieger has incorporated an open textbook into his physics teaching and has eliminated textbook costs in Physics 117. He also received an OER Fund grant to create an enhanced open physics textbook that will be useful for all students whose first language is not English. |