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Project BoxSand: Tracking Student Engagement with Open Educational Resources and Homework

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  • I am a physics education researcher. My ‘laboratory’ is a year-long Introductory Algebrabased Physics sequence taught at Oregon State University (OSU). While not technically a hybrid class, it has most of the aspects of a hybrid learning environment, as the course is “flipped,” and includes a combination of pre-lecture online content, followed by in-class learning experiences, as well as post-class homework. The sequence consists of undergraduate science majors, mostly in their Junior and Senior year. We collect data about students’ clicks on the course website along with their engagement with Open Educational Resources (OER) found on BoxSand.org. We were also able to get click-stream data from the online homework system, Masteringphysics (MP) (Pearson MyLab & Mastering, 2019). These data are coupled to the course gradebook. Using statistical methods, we try to find interesting patterns in student’s use of resources and how that use correlates with learning. I was selected as an Ecampus Research Fellow with funding from the OER Unit at OSU Ecampus. I entered the fellowship with one academic year of data from a previously IRB approved research project. These data included students’ usage of online resources and class performance. Prior to the fellowship, a preliminary exploratory analysis had been performed, but the project still needed more statistical rigor and modeling before publication. Therefore, the goal of my fellowship was to conduct a complete data analysis and produce a peer-reviewed manuscript. The motivations for this research and a review of our results will be discussed in turn below.
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  • Walsh, K. C. (2020). Project BoxSand: Tracking student engagement with open educational resources and homework. White Paper. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Ecampus Research Unit.
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