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The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers

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The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers was created to bring attention to the work that is involved in building and managing an OER program, from learning about open educational practices and soliciting team members to collecting and reporting data on your program’s outcomes. Regardless of your program's scope and your own experience with OER, we hope that the Starter Kit for Program Managers will have some tips to help you along your way.

Material Type: Case Study

Authors: Abbey K. Elder, Apurva Ashok, Jeff Gallant;, Marco Seiferle-Valencia, Stefanie Buck

The OER Starter Kit Workbook

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The OER Starter Kit Workbook is a remix of the OER Starter Kit to include worksheets to help instructors practice the skills they need to confidently find, use, or even create open educational resources (OER). We welcome instructors, librarians, instructional designers, administrators, and anyone else interested in OER to explore the OER Starter Kit Workbook.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Textbook

Authors: Abbey Elder, Stacy Katz

Open Pedagogy Approaches: Faculty, Library, and Student Collaborations

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The entire spirit of this book project reflects the editors’ shared belief in the power of an open and inclusive community, of learning, and of collaboration toward innovation. From the outset, the editors knew that this book would be an open project in its own right. It had to be published openly (to practice what we preach), and it would serve as an opportunity to learn the process of creating an open book from start to finish, including, for example, developing review criteria that would ensure rigor, diversity, inclusion, and ingenuity while drawing from the open community to involve both novice and expert OP practitioners both as authors and readers.

Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook

Authors: Alexis Clifton, Kimberly Davies Hoffman

The OER Starter Kit

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This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to Open Education. [Version 1.1. Revised September 5th, 2019.]

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Abbey Elder

A Tutorial for Making Online Learning Accessible to Students with Disabilities

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This module provides self-paced instruction to help individuals begin making online course accessible to, usable by, and inclusive of all students, including those with disabilities. This tutorial covers these topics and more: *Legal issues *Accommodations and universal design *Principles that underpin the universal design (UD) of online learning *Practices that are accessible, usable, and inclusive

Material Type: Module

Authors: Sheryl Burgstahler, University of Washington

Publication: Border Business Briefs

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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.

Material Type: Case Study

Author: Center for Border Economic Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Data Visualizations

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This resource from the U.S. Census Bureau provides examples of Visualizations that can be utilized to discuss the various elements of statistics: Data Collection, Data Representation, Data Analysis, and Data Interpretation.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Interactive

Author: Us Census Bureau

Social Problems: Continuity and Change

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Social Problems: Continuity and Change by Steve Barkan is a realistic but motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book’s subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future, provided that our nation has the wisdom and will to address them. It is easy for students to read a social problems textbook and come away feeling frustrated by the enormity of the many social problems facing us today. Social Problems: Continuity and Change certainly does not minimize the persistence of social problems, but neither does it overlook the possibilities for change offered by social research and by the activities of everyday citizens working to make a difference. Readers of Steve Barkan’s book will find many examples of how social problems have been improved and of strategies that hold great potential for solving them today and in the future. You will find several pedagogical features help to convey the “continuity and change” theme of this text and the service sociology vision in which it is grounded: Each chapter begins with a “Social Problems in the News” story related to the social problem discussed in that chapter. These stories provide an interesting starting point for the chapter’s discussion and show its relevance for real-life issues. Three types of boxes in each chapter provide examples of how social problems have been changed and can be changed.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Steven Barkan

Social Problems

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Social Problems: Continuity and Change is a realistic and motivating look at the many issues that are facing our society today. As this book’s subtitle, Continuity and Change, implies, social problems are persistent, but they have also improved in the past and can be improved in the present and future, provided that our nation has the wisdom and will to address them.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Tim McLean

Social Problems (SOC 201)

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Every society faces problems that are more than just individual troubles. In this course we will use a sociological perspective to critically examine the bases of social inequality and the resultant problems in society. We will explore concerns related to families, education, the workplace, the media, poverty, crime, drug abuse, health issues, war and terrorism, the environment and global concerns. We will also look at social action and possible solutions to these problems through both individual and community efforts.

Material Type: Assessment, Full Course, Reading, Syllabus

Intro to Sociology (SOC 101)

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Sociology is the study of social groups, structures, processes, institutions, and events. This course will focus on understanding and applying the sociological perspective, which stresses the importance of the impact of social forces external to the individual in shaping peopleęs lives and experiences. This idea that we are all profoundly affected by the society in which we live is the guiding light of sociology. Sociologists also study the ways in which people, as they interact, shape their social systems. Topics studied will include socialization, social interaction, culture, groups, social structure, deviance, social inequality, social class, race, gender, institutions (political, economic, educational, family, and religious), collective behavior and social change. Students will be asked to learn the basic concepts, theories, and perspectives of sociology, to see how these operate in terms of social processes, structures, and events, and to apply this knowledge to better understand the social world.

Material Type: Assessment, Full Course, Reading, Syllabus

HDFS 201 - Contemporary Families in the US

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This course is an introduction to families with application to personal life. It focuses on diversity in family structure, social class, race, gender, work, and its interaction with other social institutions. Course Outcomes: 1. Use theoretical frameworks to interpret the role of the family within social process and institutions. 2. Describe the nature, value, and limitations of the basic methods of studying individuals and families. 3. Using historical and contemporary examples, describe how perceived differences, combined with unequal distribution of power across economic, social, and political institutions, result in inequity. 4. Explain how difference is socially constructed. 5. Analyze current social issues, including the impact of historical and environmental influences, on family development. 6. Analyze ways in which the intersections of social categories such as race, ethnicity, social class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and age, interact with the country’s institutions to contribute to difference, power, and discrimination amongst families. 7. Synthesize multiple viewpoints and sources of evidence to generate reasonable conclusions.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Linn Benton Virtual College