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Math to Braille made easy!

An outcome of the UTMOST project is a new system for converting math books to Braille with minimal overhead. By using PreTeXt as the source books can be produced in multiple output formats (HTML, PDF, ePUB) and now Braille. Read more…

Textbooks in the news

Textbooks are pricey. So students are getting creative, Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, Jan. 17, 2020.

How Professors Help Rip Off Students, Tim Wu, New York Times, Dec. 19, 2019.

What Exactly Is a ‘Free’ Textbook, and Other Questions About Open Resources, Beth McMurtrie, Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 31, 2019.

For This Campus, Choosing Textbooks Has Gotten a Lot More Complicated, by Lindsay Ellis, Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 13, 2019.

‘Pirate Libraries’ Find a Market Among Students Seeking to Avoid High Textbook Prices, Grace Elletson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 13, 2019.

What’s new?

UTMOST Schedule at the JMM in Baltimore December 11, 2018
See us in Baltimore in January 2019 November 19, 2018
JMM was great! January 16, 2017

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
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 Foundation.