Faculty Spotlight

Casey Durandet, Physics Faculty

Casey was an early adopter of giving students access to open educational resources as well as providing 24x7 access to all course materials for her students. For all her classes, the syllabi are posted online, including password protected pages for online grades, lab experiments, homework solutions, lecture notes. For each class, the non-password protected pages contain the course home page, course description, course requirements, course schedule, homework, student conduct code, and the "Online Resources" page.

Casey’s online resources page has links to free study resources, course work and books offered through various sites. Here are just a few: The "Online Resources" page contains links to many online physics resources. They include the following:

PVCC's own e-brary for online books

Specific Physics Resources:

Mechanical Universe Videos - Even though these videos were filmed at Caltech in the late 1980s, the physics is still relevant, especially the 3-D graphical representations. These videos are freely available 24/7. http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html

MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/ (This is a great resource for students to view video lectures, e.g., check out this link: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-01Physics-IFall1999/VideoLectures/index.htm