This presentation will introduce an Internet in a Box (IIAB) paradigm for bringing resources and technologies into remote classrooms through a $35 Raspberry Pi that contains a static image of open source and open access content from across the web. At the time of the writing of this abstract we have a Pi that generates a mobile hotspot for remote regions without internet access, which gives instructors and students access to the entire Wikipedia (5,669,542 articles & 4,611,885 images), 8,083 Khan Academy videos, 102 PhET simulations, 26,368 articles on the chemistry stack exchange and much, much more.<br/><br/>The presenter is a member of the LibreText OER consortium who has been developing an Open Access Freshmen Chemistry Textbook within the LibreText HyperLibrary for his freshmen students at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. This presentation will cover classroom applications of his work, including the use of the hypothes.is web annotation service, that can be adopted by international schools with broadband access. The presentation will then move to our work on IIAB and efforts to bring these resources to regions without broadband internet access. We are interested in developing collaborations with international teaching faculty, especially ones who wish to develop multilingual content that would assist chemistry students who speak a non-English native language. The presentation will include a demo of the IIAB.

Internet in a Box meets LibreText: Bringing OER web content to the chemistry classroom in regions without broadband.

2019 Spring National Meeting

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