"Freeing the Textbook" by Seaman & Seaman, 2018
(View Complete Item Description)Results of Babson Survey Research Group's 2018 study of "Educational Resources in U.S. Higher Education"
Material Type: Reading
All resources in OER Core Elements Spring 2023
Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Statewide Playbook
(View Complete Item Description)The Open Educational Resources (OER) in Texas Statewide Playbook is a resource developed by practitioners and advocates actively involved in the labor of open education to guide new and expanding OER work at institutions of higher education. The Playbook is the result of partnerships between the Division of Digital Learning, the Institution for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) – creators of OER Commons and experts in open education practice and research – and faculty, librarians, staff, and administrators from institutions and systems across Texas. It aims to support institutions as they work to build capacity and drive systems change around OER. It also serves as a guiding document for institutions that have not yet engaged in OER work or taken advantage of existing programs and opportunities. The hope is that the Texas OER Playbook will serve as a companion on the journey towards OER awareness and advocacy at your institution.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
OER State Policy Playbook 2021-2022 Edition
(View Complete Item Description)Open educational resources (OER) are textbooks and other course materials that are free for people everywhere to use and repurpose. States and institutions are leveraging OER to expand access to flexible, digital learning materials that reduce costs for students by millions each year.
Material Type: Primary Source
Making Textbooks Affordable: Student Government Toolkit
(View Complete Item Description)The high cost of textbooks has become a serious obstacle to the affordability of a college education. The textbook market is rigged so that publishers can generate huge profits and engage in bad practices at students’ expense. Fortunately, we have solutions to this problem, most notably in the form of “open textbooks”—high-quality books that are available online for free or for a very low cost in print. With solutions like these, we can break the publishers’ stranglehold on the market and help make higher education more accessible to everyone. These changes won’t happen on their own—students will need to work for them. This toolkit provides the resources that student governments and state student associations need in order to bring open textbooks to their campuses and save students money
Material Type: Primary Source
OpenStax OER Toolkit
(View Complete Item Description)This toolkit provides guidance and considerations regarding an array of OER development and implementation topics. Key areas of focus include:Open licensesOpportunities and approaches to using third-party images and resourcesResource development planningInclusive, accessible, and equitable resourcesPeer review and revisionFinding and evaluating OERSharing and promoting OER The guide has a detailed table of contents, and is itself openly licensed for reuse and remixing.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
OER Action Planning Worksheet.
(View Complete Item Description)Your action plan is an internal planning document for how you will convince key internal and external constituents to support for the work that you are doing. It is intended as a living document that you can revisit as you review the results of your advocacy activities and refine your advocacy strategy. Think of it as a skeleton you can work to fill in.
Material Type: Module
Promoting Open Educational Resources: A Beginner’s Playbook
(View Complete Item Description)The awareness, adoptions, adaptions, and publishing activity around Open Educational Resources (OER) vary greatly among institutions of higher education in Pennsylvania and beyond. This article provides an overview of the paths and efforts, described as preparation and plays, that I have taken to promote OER at Kutztown University and around the state as an OER Specialist for the Affordable Learning PA Project. While this article focuses on tactics for beginning OER promotion, readers who are further along in their efforts to develop and support OER projects may find some new ideas to explore and expand upon at their institutions.
Material Type: Reading
Introduction to Sociology 2e, Aging and the Elderly, Who Are the Elderly? Aging in Society
(View Complete Item Description)Understand the difference between senior age groups (young-old, middle-old, and old-old)Describe the “graying of the United States” as the population experiences increased life expectanciesExamine aging as a global issue
Material Type: Module
British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond
(View Complete Item Description)The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you British Literature II: Romantic Era to the Twentieth Century and Beyond. Featuring 37 authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the literature developed within and developing through their respective eras. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that has captivated readers in the past and still holds us now. Features: Contextualizing introductions to the Romantic era; the Victorian era; and the Twentieth Century and beyond. Over 90 historical images. In-depth biographies of each author. Instructional Design features, including Reading and Review Questions. This textbook is an Open Educational Resource. It can be reused, remixed, and reedited freely without seeking permission.
Material Type: Full Course
Andrew Marvell – Anthology of Medieval Literature
(View Complete Item Description)Collection of Andrew Marvell's poems including "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Mower Against Gardens."
Material Type: Primary Source, Reading, Textbook
Victorian Literature and Culture, Spring 2003
(View Complete Item Description)British literature and culture during Queen Victoria's long reign, 1837-1901. Authors studied may include Charles Dickens, the Brontes, Lewis Carroll, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Discussion of many of the era's major developments such as urbanization, steam power, class conflict, Darwin, religious crisis, imperial expansion, information explosion, and bureaucratization. Fiction, nonfiction, and poetry; syllabi vary.
Material Type: Full Course
John Donne (1572-1631)
(View Complete Item Description)Brief biography for metaphysical poet John Donne
Material Type: Reading
OpenStax Introduction to Business
(View Complete Item Description)Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond.
Material Type: Textbook
Business Ethics
(View Complete Item Description)Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.
Material Type: Textbook
Accessibility Toolkit
(View Complete Item Description)The NSCC Edition is a revised version of the BC Campus Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition. The goal of this book is to provide resources for each content creator, instructional designer, educational technologist, librarian, administrator, and teaching assistant to create a truly open textbook—one that is free and accessible for all students.
Material Type: Textbook
Web Technologies (GGC)
(View Complete Item Description)This complete set of course materials contains all files used for in-class activities and labs, a full set of lecture slides, project assignments, and a test bank. Topics covered include: HTML Basics CSS Images Page Layout Tables Forms Multimedia JavaScript
Material Type: Full Course
US History
(View Complete Item Description)These resources are discussion post prompts designed for use in online classes or for class discussions. Each focuses on a topic from a specific chapter in the OpenStax US History textbook beginning with chapter 17. As such, all topics and themes are designed for the second half of the US History survey course.Each prompt is designed to center on a specific topic from each chapter and then connect it to the context of a theme or idea in modern or contemporary times.In this way history is taught so students can understand that it is relevant to their own lives, rather than merely a series of events surviving in their own insulated past.
Material Type: Assessment
Our Story: An Ancillary to US History
(View Complete Item Description)A US history ancillary/textbook that examines some traditional some non-traditional aspects of American social, cultural, gender, racial, political, and military history. Most chapters include content provided by community college students.
Material Type: Textbook
US History II
(View Complete Item Description)U.S. History II covers the chronological history of the United States from Reconstruction through the beginning of the 21st Century.
Material Type: Textbook
HST 201 - US History: Colonial & Revolutionary
(View Complete Item Description)This course provides an overview of the United States from pre-Columbian North American and European antecedents to colonization, Colonial America, Revolutionary America; development of U.S. government, economy, and society to 1840. Course Outcomes: 1. Articulate an understanding of key historical events from pre-Columbian North America and European antecedents to colonization, the development of slavery, Native American history, Colonial America, Revolutionary America and the development of U.S. government, economy, and society to 1840. 2. Identify and investigate historical theses, evaluate information and its sources, and use appropriate reasoning to construct evidence-based arguments on historical issues. 3. Construct an historical argument integrating both primary documents and secondary sources.
Material Type: Full Course