Authors

Bimal Kunwor is an adjunct Mathematics Instructor at River Parishes Community College and a U.S. Army service member since 2015. He holds a master’s degree in mathematics from LSU and has experience in data analysis roles across higher education. He teaches courses such as College Algebra, Calculus, and Statistics and is a strong advocate for Open Educational Resources (OER).

Jared Eusea has been teaching at River Parishes Community College since January 2011, where he has been promoted from Instructor to Associate Professor and has been named the Department Chair of the Mathematics Department (starting in Fall 2021). He has taught lecture, online (asynchronous and synchronous), and hybrid (blended) courses for Developmental Mathematics, College Algebra, Introduction to Statistics, Trigonometry, and Calculus. All of his courses are 100% OER content! He has created lecture notes following the OpenStax textbooks for faculty to use and has shared these on the OpenStax OER Commons website. In addition to teaching a full-load each semester since he started at RPCC, Jared has led committees in redesigning the math curriculum and sequence and led discussion for establishing course commonality for all mathematics courses, including course and unit objectives, textbooks, assessment policies, and a standard homework system. Jared has been instrumental in moving forward improvements in online teaching and learning at RPCC by developing Master courses that could be used for all math online courses. He has also been the chair of the committee at RPCC that reviews those courses being offered online at RPCC to check that they are designed following certain criteria consistent to the QM standards and has been involved with faculty on an internal Instructional Design Team to develop a common course template for use towards our college’s goal of fully online programs. Jared is a QM Peer Reviewer and has dealt with the three main LMS platforms: Blackboard, Moodle, and Canvas, so I have seen a lot of various course designs. Lastly, since 2017 I have been a faculty participant and Principal Investigator for two system-wide eLearning Innovation Fund Grants, one Affordable Learning Grant, and a Summer Faculty cohort, where funding was provided to faculty who developed fully online OER courses to share within our system. I also participated as a reviewer in the last course design project that was led by the LOUIS team.

Karen Perilloux has been an Instructor of Mathematics at River Parishes Community College since 2023, where she has taught  College Algebra, College Algebra with corequisite support, Applied Algebra, Trigonometry, and Applied Calculus. Karen holds a Master’s +30 from Nicholls State University. She taught high school math for 30 years at Ascension Catholic High School. She joined the University of Holy Cross as an adjunct professor in 2021, teaching both Dual Enrollment College Algebra and Applied Calculus.  Karen looks forward to bringing the perspective from the Dual Enrollment students to the cohort and sees this grant as a once in a lifetime chance to create OER that will help Dual Enrollment students financially and promote Dual Enrollment to a growing number of students.