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Dr. Hamblin’s open-source materials cut costs for students and raise course outcomes

reduces the overwhelm that can come from translating a generic textbook across different teaching and learning methods.

Shippensburg University professor of mathematics, Dr. James Hamblin, has spent the past several years replacing Elementary Linear Algebra textbook materials with free, fully integrated open-source resources: free online text, MyOpenMath exercises, and video lectures. According to Hamblin, the goal was to bridge the gap between a heavily theoretical approach favored by math majors and the…

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Luis Melara, Mathematics department

Dr. Melara gave a research presentation entitled Optimal Bandwidth Selection in Biofet Measurements at the Vith Interdisciplinary International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modeling and Computational Science. The meeting was held in at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada from August 14-18, 2023. Read it here. He co-organized and chaired a session on Mathematical Modelling and Disease…

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