Congratulations to Dr. Shantanu Chakraborty, Affordable Learning Georgia Grant Awardee (Round 20)! The Affordable Learning Georgia Grant is a USG initiative which focuses on reducing the costs of textbooks and the enhancement of Open Educational Resources (OER), GALILEO and Georgia’s Virtual Library. Equitable access to materials and lower material costs for students supports retention, progression and graduation. 

Dr. Chakraborty is working to enhance the learning experience, improve student success rates and maximize the scope of academic integrity. He will develop video lectures and slides available to students and other instructors of PHYS 2211K: Principles of Physics I. The slides will have animations, relevant diagrams, and conceptual problems organized by chapter of the OpenStax University Physics textbook. Students will thus benefit from an interactive learning experience from their personal devices.  All the developed materials will be also stored in a master course-shell in Blazeview (Brightspace by D2L) so in the future all faculty members teaching PHYS 2211 at VSU will also have access to the teaching materials. This will ensure sustainability and availability of streamlined teaching materials institution-wide. Finally, the course materials will be published in open-access platforms to be shared with all the institutions throughout Georgia.

Dr. Shantanu Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor of Physics at VSU. He obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Florida State University. Dr. Chakraborty has been the instructor of the PHYS 2211K course for the past three years.