Indifference curves for normal goods, substitutes and perfect complements. Created by Sal Khan.

This lab manual was created for Anatomy and Physiology I at the University of Georgia under a Textbook Transformation Grant and revised through a Scaling Up OER Pilot Grant.

This lab manual was created for Anatomy and Physiology II at the University of Georgia under a Textbook Transformation Grant and revised through a Scaling Up OER Pilot Grant.

What is economics and why should you spend your time learning it? After all, there are other disciplines you could be studying, and other ways you could be spending your time. As the Bring it Home feature just mentioned, making choices is at the heart of what economists study, and your decision to take this course is as much an economic decision as anything else.

Economics is probably not what you think it is. It is not primarily about money or finance. It is not primarily about business. It is not mathematics. What is it then? It is both a subject area and a way of viewing the world.

The Macroeconomics digital course enhancements is a comprehensive, open-access resource for economics instructors to adopt in whole or in part, and is designed to support flexibility for faculty and students. The content areas are divided into modules for ease of navigation or partial adoption as needed. We don’t have a required textbook even if we often refer to chapters in the OpenStax’s Principle of Macroeconomics. In addition, we provide suggestions for student activities and deliverables for each topic within the modules as well as reference videos and articles.
For the novice instructor, you will find an organized course structure highlighting key content areas and suggested activities. We provide various classroom activities so that instructors can pick and choose. For the new-to-online, this course offers a structure to follow and suggestions for engagement that can easily be adapted to online delivery. For the experienced faculty, our goal was to provide new ideas, engagement activities, and links to resources that could be shared with students seeking additional support. We’ve also curated additional resources that are open access and may be beneficial to instructors as supplemental materials.
In the course materials, we have included discussion prompt options, homework and activities, and quiz and exam. Below is a summary of each resource and how we envisioned use of these materials.
We provide extensive discussion prompt options that could be used in the classroom, in virtual class sessions, or as discussion board posts. We encourage instructors to consider these discussion prompts for online courses to enhance student engagement and provide a sense of community. They also lend themselves to deeper learning and application of the material.
In each module, we provide homework assignments including multiple choice questions, short-answer questions, exercises and problems. Most open source textbooks offer practice questions and a test bank so that you can easily adopt. Classroom activities could be graded or ungraded and provide students the opportunity to practice with the material.
Another suggestion to increase collaboration and engagement in the course is to have students use Google Docs or another collaborative tool to provide a test or quiz question related to the topics. Students could work in small groups to develop questions and earn participation or extra credit points for submitting accurate questions. This could even be developed into a competition between groups. This is one option for building a robust and unpublished source for quiz or exam questions. We suggest selecting a few of the top questions for quizzes or exams.
This Macroeconomics resource is intended to provide flexible adoption options for instructors. Instructors may use all of the materials in the modules or select what is most appropriate to enhance existing course materials. We hope this is a useful tool for economics instructors regardless of expertise level.

The information shared within this website was carefully curated and designed to promote quality online teaching and learning experiences for Microeconomics faculty and students within the University of North Carolina System.

Originally published as American Government and Politics in the Information Age in 2011 as CC BY-NC-SA.
Updated by James J. Tuite. This is a textbook for the first part of an introductory course on the American political process. Teaches the structure, operation, and process of national, state, and local governments.

U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

This laboratory manual is intended for use in a biology laboratory course taken by non-science majors, pre-biology, and pre-allied health majors.

Laboratory exercises provide students with experience in basic laboratory skills, gathering and organizing data, measuring and calculating, hypothesis testing, analysis of data, writing, and laboratory safety. The skill sets are designed to promote the development of critical thought and analysis. Students work with living and preserved specimens, and laboratory reagents and equipment.

United States Government: The Basics of Government Function, Structure, and Process

Deborah Smith Hoag, Remix Lead Author

Richard Fonte, Remix Author

Glen Krutz, Content Lead - OpenStax Version

Sylvie Waskiewicz, Lead Editor/Openstax

Cover Photo Attribution: Carol M. Highsmith (2007) Library of Congress

University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.

University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.

University Physics is a three-volume collection that meets the scope and sequence requirements for two- and three-semester calculus-based physics courses. Volume 1 covers mechanics, sound, oscillations, and waves. Volume 2 covers thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, and Volume 3 covers optics and modern physics. This textbook emphasizes connections between between theory and application, making physics concepts interesting and accessible to students while maintaining the mathematical rigor inherent in the subject. Frequent, strong examples focus on how to approach a problem, how to work with the equations, and how to check and generalize the result.

This readings-based course analyzes the structure and operation of government systems in developing countries, with particular emphasis on regional and local governments. Major topics include: the role of decentralization in national economic reform programs; the potential impact of decentralized governments on local economic development; determination of optimal arrangements for sharing fiscal responsibilities among levels of government; evaluation of local revenue and expenditure decisions; and assessment of prospects and options for intergovernmental fiscal reform. Emphasis is on basic economic concerns, with consideration given to political, institutional, and cultural factors.

In the video we explore why the marginal utility per dollar spent should be equal for the last increment of either good purchased. Created by Sal Khan.

In the video we explore why the marginal utility per dollar spent should be equal for the last increment of either good purchased. Created by Sal Khan.

This video shows how we can visualize marginal utility (MU) and total utility (TU) functions graphically.

This course covers processes and fundamentals of writing expository essays, including structure, organization and development, diction and style, revision and editing, and mechanics required for college-level writing.

Course Outcomes:

Analyze the rhetorical needs (the needs of their audience in relationship to the assignment) for academically-oriented writing assignments requiring them to use a broad range of critical thinking strategies, particularly analysis and evaluation.
Apply appropriate levels of critical thinking strategies (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation) in their written assignments.
Implement appropriate rhetorical elements and organization (introduction, thesis, development and support, definition, narration, comparison, conclusion, etc.) in their written assignments.
Locate, evaluate, and integrate high-quality information and opinion appropriate for college-level analytical and evaluation assignments.
Craft sentences and paragraphs that communicate their ideas clearly and effectively using words, sentence patterns, and writing conventions at a college level to make their writing clear, credible and persuasive.

These open-source mathematics homework problems are programmed for the WeBWorK mathematics platform and correspond to chapters in OpenStax Introductory Statistics. They were created through a Round Eight Textbook Transformation Grant.