Open Source Physics Content Delivery: Computation, Curriculum, and Libraries

NSDL Event
Nov 17, 2009 - Nov 19, 2009 in Washington DC

This presentation will introduce an integrated platform for content creation, adoption, adaption, and sharing in physics education. This platform uses: (1) the Open Source Physics (OSP) Java library as a foundation of rich computational resources for building simulations of physical systems, (2) the Easy Java Simulation (EJS) modeling environment to simplify the creation of sophisticated, interactive, graphical, and physically accurate computational models, and (3) the ComPADRE digital library that hosts the computational models, information for developers and users, and a web service index of models accessible directly from the EJS modeling environment. This talk will trace the use of this tripartite platform, from programming and curriculum authoring, to adoption and modification, to sharing and organization through the library. Examples from both introductory and upper level physics will be explored through the EJS library connections. The talk will also cover the usage of these resources and the possibility of its use in other STEM disciplines.

This work is supported, in part, but the NSF grants DUE-0442581 and DUE-0532798.

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