The Open Resource site is intended to facilitate discovery and use of open resources starting with Open Educational Resources (OER). The Open Resource site will continue to develop and change depending on the needs of the community, and are outlined in the future developments section. Essentially it is a place to search for all the places to search for OER.

From the site: "In the Oregon State Guide to English Literary Terms, our professors define common literary devices and offer short lessons on how to use them in essays and other forms of literary criticism. The series is designed to be a free, online, creative commons (CC BY) resource for high school and college English teachers and students, offering them tools to engage meaningfully with challenging literary texts. To see the videos, please click on the links below.

To support dual language instruction, we have added Spanish as well as English subtitles to many of our videos. If you would like to read the English or Spanish transcripts of our videos, please click on their titles and you will be directed to pages dedicated to each term."

Overview:
The website contains a collection of 90 business ethics cases developed from 1987-1994 with funding provided by Arthur Andersen. The collection has been licensed to Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business for instructional purposes. The collection includes 25 accounting mini-cases, 9 finance mini-cases, 19 management mini-cases, 32 marketing mini-cases, and five major cases (8 to 70 pages each). A pdf file is also available that provides a complete listing of the cases and summaries that is searchable within Adobe Acrobat Reader. John Hooker maintains the site. Faculty guides to the major cases can be requested by contacting him.

This summary documents the initial collaboration and reported insights of the individual institutions and the NIC as a whole. As the institutions implement their programs, gain new insights, and test improvements, subsequent summary reports will be made available as open education resources on the Perkins Grantee Hub at OERTX.higered.texas.gov.

This resource is a template for developing and curating OER ancillary materials for a Public Family Policy course. This template was designed for the OER Advanced Skills series in June 2023.

This casebook, now in its second edition, is a collaboration of over 90 individuals with expertise and training in public health pharmacy. A total of 54 chapters are presented, covering a broad array of topics relevant to pharmacy applications of public health. These topics include, but are not limited to, cross-cultural care, health literacy and disparities, infectious disease, health promotion and disease prevention, medication safety, structural racism, advocacy/policy analysis, chronic disease, women’s health, rural health, travel medicine and more. The book is designed to allow educators/students to choose chapters of interest as they feel suited, as each chapter is independent from the others. Each chapter contains learning objectives and an introduction to the topic, followed by a case and questions. The chapter closes with commentary from the authors and patient-oriented considerations for the topic at hand.

This resource is a publication created by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's Center for Border Economic Studies. This resource provides regional research studies that can be utilized to discuss various aspects of statistics including: data collection, data representation, data analysis, and data interpretation.

An online radiology reference who's mission is to make it available for free, for ever, for all.

This report is based on an independent study funded in 2022 by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) with Texas A&M University-Commerce (TAMUC) in collaboration with the Texas Education Policy Institute (TEPI).

This document is an evidence-based guide that outlines the practical and policy supports needed to enable K-12 school librarians to take on leadership roles around OER, and to support OER curation efforts by librarians and all educators.

This guide is based on a study led by ISKME (iskme.org) in collaboration with Florida State University's School of Information. The study is titled “Exploring OER Curation and the Role of School Librarians". ISKME designs guides and toolkits that help educators navigate and implement new teaching and learning practices. Grounded in research, our evidence-based guides and toolkits help articulate what actually works in real education settings—and are tailored to the unique professional learning needs of our clients and their stakeholders.

The study was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (www.imls.gov), under grant number LG-86-17-0035-17. The findings and recommendations expressed in this document do not necessarily represent those of the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

OER Fellows are invited to remix this OER Storytelling Template to share their stories of impact with Open Educational Resources (OER).

Podcast- Free after email sign-up Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) have become priorities for organizations. While many have diversity initiatives and HR handles equity, inclusivity remains a challenge. Leaders often believe they are more inclusive than they are. Effective DEI requires focusing on inclusion. Leaders must understand the leadership perception gap, evaluate their inclusiveness, and work with HR to cultivate an inclusive culture. Listen to this episode to learn more.

During the 83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) was directed to undertake a study with the Virtual College of Texas (VCT) on the availability and use of open educational resources (OER) as described in Section 52 of the General Appropriations Act. Section 52. The 2014 report includes recommendations related to the following areas:
- professional development programs to support faculty at institutions of higher education in using OER
-how to establish a statewide digital repository for all OER developed with state funds
-methods for encouraging the use of OER at public and private institutions of higher education

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Even after decades of improvement efforts, completion rates at community colleges remain low, particularly among students who need developmental education. Food and housing insecurity – referred to as basic needs insecurity – contribute to low completion rates. Community college students face higher rates of basic needs insecurity than other students. Yet basic needs insecurity often goes unaddressed, particularly at these colleges, due to resource constraints.

Community colleges have started to support students’ basic needs in multiple ways. Campus-based hubs offering services like public benefits access, emergency aid, food pantries and case management have become increasingly popular. However, limited evidence exists on whether connecting with these hubs improves academic success.

The Advocacy and Resource Center (ARC) at Amarillo College (AC) in Texas is a well-established example of how a college can care for its students. In 2018, The Hope Center published a detailed case study of the college’s approach to AC’s “culture of caring” embodied by the ARC. At the time, the ARC served 13% of Amarillo College students, well short of the estimated two-thirds who endured basic needs insecurity. This report details our partnership with the college to conduct an evaluation advancing two institutional goals:

• Increase utilization of the ARC, particularly among students most at risk of leaving college, with a low-cost technology-enabled approach
• Estimate the academic impacts of connecting students to the ARC

We identified students who might benefit from the ARC: those from low-income households and those enrolled in developmental education coursework. Placement in developmental education signals insufficient K-12 preparation and/or gaps in enrollment, both of which are associated with poverty. We targeted personalized emails to a randomly selected group of these students informing them of and inviting them to the ARC for support. These emails had positive impacts on students at AC:

• Rates of visiting the ARC more than doubled from 22% to 56%
• Developmental education students were 20% more likely to pass developmental education courses, a crucial milestone

However, we did not find clear evidence that nudged students completed more credits, received higher grades, or passed other courses at higher rates. While we saw promising trends regarding retention and graduation, they may be due to chance.

As community colleges across the nation work to improve student success and help students recover from the pandemic, this evaluation offers two lessons:

• Insufficient information about existing basic needs supports keeps students from getting the help they need. The information barrier may be effectively overcome with personalized nudging, a low-cost solution
• Connecting students to basic needs supports helps students make academic progress, particularly those in need of developmental education

This document represents the planning, strategy, logistics, and timeline for the TCC Connect Digital OER program. Use this resource as a guide to help build an OER program at your institution.

This impact report, released in February of 2022, shows the Tarrant To and Through (T3) Partnership's progress since initial launch in 2020 through December 2021. The T3 Partnership, a local coalition of school districts, colleges, universities, employers, and community organizations, provides a variety of programs designed to inform and engage students and families about college and career pathways. It aims to ensure more Tarrant County students have the training and skills they need to thrive in today’s workforce.

The Teach the Earth Portal has hundreds of high school through higher ed geoscience educator shared content ranging from low stakes to high stakes undergraduate core level to graduate level resources. More recently, have also added virtual field experiences appropriate for core course to upper division field camp (in response to pandemic necessity for Summer 2020 Field Camp revisioning). Many of the contributions are from members or partners with the National Association for Geoscience Teachers. There is an ongoing review process by professional peers to vet content submitted / aggregated into this portal during the past several decades.

Short Description:
This modern, open-source guide to technical and professional writing explores workplace composition through theoretical and practical applications. Discussions of multiple writing genres will assist you in understanding how to apply for jobs, how to compose clear and precise business communications once the job has been acquired, and how to create documents -- such as proposals and reports -- that will be instrumental in helping to advance your career.

Long Description:
Building from strong open-source foundations, this modern guide to technical and professional writing explores workplace composition through both practical and theoretical lenses. Multidisciplinary backgrounds and decades of professional work experience–both in and outside of academia–have given the authors and editors of this text keen insight into the writing demands of professional, business environments. With an emphasis on understanding the basics of each writing genre–as well as the supplemental sections that may, for example, enhance a résumé or a strengthen a proposal–this text aims to provide clear, informed, considerate, and contemporary explanations for those wanting to optimally construct and efficiently compose résumés, cover letters, memorandums, instructional guides, proposals, and analytical and oral reports.

Word Count: 77972

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

The Texas Core to Open site is intended to facilitate discovery and use of open resources for core courses across the state of Texas at institutions of higher education. The Texas Core to Open site will continue to develop and change depending on the needs of the community, and are outlined in the future developments section. This resource is intended to ease the burden of finding materials to consider for a common core course, but the instructor of record is the subject matter expert, and final decision maker when it comes to what material is appropriate for their students.

Instructors interested in helping students develop time management skills will find this resource helpful. After first establishing why time management is important, this resource outlines various time management methods students can use, including calendars, planners, to-do lists, and digital tools. For each method, this resource details its strengths and weaknesses, empowering students to select the system that best suits their needs. Additionally, this resource provides downloadable templates and practical case studies for helping students practice time management skills. By the end, instructors and students will understand time management principles and be able to implement an effective system to support their academic and personal success.

Author: Tyler Laughlin
Editor: Mary Landry, C. Anneke Snyder
Supervisor: Terri Pantuso