This project aims to create a community of shared knowledge between 15 math professors, and develop free,  open resources for teaching differential and integral calculus courses with one or many variables. The content targets the three college-level calculus courses, as well as many university-level courses in science and engineering. The resources will include:

• Open access to textbooks, exercises, application examples, scripts or labs for digital application.

• A library of problems that can be accessed through an automatic correction platform in many scientific fields (first in French, then in English).

Free resources

This new, quality, instructional material will reduce the financial burden on students and establishments. It will be adaptable and accessible by different means (print or digital), and will be available for free, open-access on different existing platforms such as Fabrique REL and WeBWork, the open-source online homework system from  the Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique (CCDMD). Existing means will be used for staff and community contributions. The first version is expected to be released for Fall 2022.

The resources will include:

• Open access to textbooks, exercises, application examples, scripts or labs for digital application.
• A library of problems that can be accessed through an automatic correction platform in many scientific fields (first in French, then in English).

Servicing a wide variety of courses

New textbook editions will be produced from English language textbooks, which are copyleft, and whose sources have been?  made available. These easily accessible texts will be available for free, in printable (PDF) and digital (HTML) format. The HTML format can then incorporate applets and exercises.

A complete collection of online activities 

Thanks to free software, this online homework system allows for automatic correction, feedback, and personalized problems, based on each student’s individual work by integrating randomized variables. Some institutions already have their own WeBWorK server, while others will call on the server from the Centre collégial de développement de matériel didactique (CCDMD). Furthermore, WebWorK can easily integrate into Moodle.

A collection of worksheets

These documents will be open-access, and freely available, without the limitation from having to purchase licenses. This collection of math worksheets relies on numerical and symbolic calculus software which will equip college faculty with the means to include digital competency into the new DEC en Sciences de la nature. The HTML version of the textbooks allows for the possibility to incorporate calculus scripts to learn the basics of programming.