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OER Core Elements Academy Fall 2021 Resources

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This resource includes the recordings and practice activities for the OER Core Elements Academy which consists of three synchronous, virtual sessions:Introduction to Open Educational Resources & Practices - Exploration of the what, why, and how of OER, highlighting use cases involving successful adoption and implementation of OER at Texas institutions.Discovery, Evaluation & Curation - Hands-on training aimed at supporting effective search, quality evaluation, and curation strategies to collaboratively identify, evaluate, and organize OER relevant to desired use.Authoring & Remixing - Deep dive into courseware improvement, developing collaborative workflows to utilize authoring tools to design, create and remix resources. Leverage supports for peer-review, reflection, and refinement of resources.Participants will have assignments to complete between synchronous sessions. Two opportunities for office hours with OER experts will also be offered:Office Hours – Option for informal discussion with OER experts.Participants are required to attend 4.5 hours of instruction and complete approximately 7 hours of practice activities to find, curate, publish, and share OER.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Megan Simmons, Michelle Singh, Kylah Torre

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Le Chatelier's Principle Dry Lab

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This resource is a virtual Le Chatelier's lab.  Pictures of systems at equilibrium are presented, then pictures are given after different stresses are applied.  A buffer system with pH data is included.  This resource is designed to accompany Chemistry Atoms First 2e section 13.3 Shifting Equilibriahttps://openstax.org/books/chemistry-atoms-first-2e/pages/13-3-shifting-equilibria-le-chateliers-principle

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Yokabet Gedeon

Intermediate ESL Writing: Types of Sentences

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This handout is designed for intermediate English language learners in writing classes. The focus is on sentence-level errors and particularly the order of words in a sentence.   Second language learners tend to refer to their native languages when writing.  So no matter how well they write their ideas, this handout will help them understand and practice their word order errors. The handout includes clear charts of the order of words in a sentence, examples, exercises, and a quiz.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment

Author: Sharla Jones

APR vs. APY study guide

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This is a quick guide to help students differenciate the terms APR and APY.  There are formulas presented to help students calculate APY given certain parameters of investments.  The guide also presents formulas to allow students to calculate APY outside of the traditional one year examples.

Material Type: Student Guide

Author: George Swindell

Successful Online Teaching

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This short module teaches instructors about Moore's three types of interactions in distance education while exploring strategies to improve each type in their own courses. It is research-based and includes references and a quiz. It was designed with higher education in mind but is applicable for isntructors at all levels.

Material Type: Module

Author: Waneta Hebert

Finding Library Database Sources for an Assignment

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This lesson goes over using library databases to find sources for a paper in a general education freshman or sophomore level class. In the activities in this lesson, the student will find one resource, create a search log, and develop a basic understanding of the process of searching library databases.The sample search is for a paper on music education in a teacher education class.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Jennifer Crispin

Find Resources

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If you haven’t discovered already, there are myriad open resources that exist. Often the trouble lies in locating those that fit precisely what you need. We’ve broken down these resources with the intent of making the search process more efficient and effective. For each you’ll find a list of unique traits, licensing information, and an example of how to attribute the source. Click one of the media sources in the Find Resources sub-menu for the details.

Material Type: Lesson

Psychology: Module on Learning

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This module on learning introduces classical and operant conditioning and social/observational learning and is appropriate for an undergraduate psychology course, either as a first introduction to the topic or as a refresher for more advanced courses.It includes a brief overview of the topic, module level objectives, readings (online free textbook and a website), links to YouTube videos explaining the three major learning theories, a low-stakes quiz sample, one required discussion, an optional discussion, and a choice of three different assignments.Links are active at time of upload, but that may change, of course.

Material Type: Assessment

Author: Denise Arellano

Interpersonal Violence in Contemporary Visual Art

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This resource discusses the social issue of interpersonal violence and provides examples of contemporary art to serve as entry points into difficult discussions and information about gender violence. Trigger warning: Please note that the below information and artworks deal with physical abuse, sexual assault/rape, and emotional abuse.   

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lecture

Author: Sara Ishii

Neural Foundations of Communication Edition 1-0807-2021-CC-BY_NC.pdf

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Preface Neural Foundations of Communication was developed for undergraduate neurology classes in the study of communication sciences and disorders. Anatomy and Physiology is a prerequisite to gain an understanding of neurology as it relates to communication. As such, this book contains some of the foundational information from the anatomy textbook, “Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology for Communication Sciences” for review. The authors intended to cover the coursework with this textbook to customize the sequence of learning objectives and support rising Speech-Language Pathologists. We developed our first open educational resource (OER) textbook in 2020, shortly after the COVID-19 Pandemic began. Reducing the costs of study materials helps rising SLPs progress toward their certification without interruptions due to financial constraints. Developing the Open Education Resource (OER) resources is our ongoing effort to support future SLPs. A large part of this book is from various OpenStax textbooks. OpenStax is a nonprofit organization based out of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Its open resource textbooks cover a vast amount of information for two-semester core curriculum courses in various disciplines. OpenStax generously permits educators to use their books' content in part or in whole to develop textbooks customized for each instructor's course structure. The present textbook's content from other open resources, such as OpenStax, is color-coded in black ink. Additional information concerning communication sciences and disorders appears in blue ink. The original OpenStax texts are accessible free of charge at https://openstax.org/subjects. This textbook includes applicable content from the OpenStax books Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology, and Biology for AP® Course. This textbook contains various images produced by the renowned Dr. Willard R. Zemlin (1929-1998) with permission. Dr. Zemlin was one of the most influential scholars in anatomy and physiology concerning communication sciences and disorders. Dr. Zemlin's son, Mr. Karl Zemlin, kindly sharpened numerous images to provide high-resolution pictures. Mr. Zemlin expressed his appreciation for the generosity of those who donated their bodies to science throughout his father's studies. A full collection of Dr. Zemlin's work is accessible at his memorial website http://zemlin.shs.uiuc.edu/zemlinBio.htm of which Mr. Zemlin is the webmaster. This textbook also incorporates additional OER materials from various information from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), branches of National Institute of Health, Wikimedia Commons, and other Wikimedia websites. The “Wiki-“ series offers a wide range of information under Creative Common (CC) licenses, allowing the use and remix of the materials. This textbook would not have been possible without the contributions of OpenStax, Mr. Karl Zemlin, and generous providers of CDC, NIH, and Wikimedia Commons resources. We sincerely appreciate their kindness. We have made this textbook available for our future colleagues to gain entry-level scientific knowledge applicable for serving individuals with communication disorders. June S. Levitt, Ph.D., LDT, CCC-SLP Sarah L. Guigneaux, M.S., CCC-SLP August 2021 Contact: OpenResource2020@gmail.com

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: June Levitt, Sarah Guigneaux