Open Access and Other Future Plans for the AMS Education Program

2024 was a year of transition for the AMS Education Department. This presentation will outline changes made to their K-12 teacher professional development programs, updates to their undergraduate student investigation manuals, and recent forays into informal education. We will then provide an overview of the longer-term strategy for the department. As an illustration of the strategy, emphasis will be placed on an announcement to merge their “Ocean Studies” introductory oceanography textbook with the “Introduction to Ocean Sciences” textbook written by Dr. Doug Segar. The newly merged publication will be released under an open-access license and will be free for all by the end of 2025.