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Languages and Worldview
Manon Allard-Kropp · University of Missouri - St. Louis · 2020
Asking and answering questions about what culture entails and examines the fundamental properties and intertwining nature of language and culture. This text explores linguistic relativity, lexical differences among languages and intercultural communication, including high and low contexts. Changes to a variety of OER works were made by Manon Allard-Kropp in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies to tailor the text to fit the needs of the Languages and World View course at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Materials from the original sources have been combined, reorganized, and added to by the current author, and any conceptual or typographical errors are the responsibility of the current author.
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Building with Nature & Beyond: Principles for designing nature based engineering solutions
Jill Slinger · TU Delft Open · 2021
This book is based upon the edX MOOCs Engineering: Building with Nature and Beyond Engineering: Building with Nature. The Engineering: Building with Nature MOOC, explores the use of natural materials and ecological processes in achieving effective and sustainable hydraulic infrastructure designs, distilling Engineering and Ecological Design Principles. In the Beyond Engineering: Building with Nature course, the missing element of Social Design Principles is developed and taught. Join us in exploring the interface between hydraulic engineering, nature and society!
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Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education
Anita Walz; Julee Farley · Virginia Tech Libraries · 2023
Higher education and PreK12 are vastly different domains. As such, well-intended, collaborative efforts between higher education and PreK12 do not always result in creation of useful and reusable learning materials for PreK12 classrooms or effective, productive partnerships. Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education is a toolkit of instructional resources designed to support higher education personnel who wish to improve or build strong and generative collaborations between higher education and PreK12 educators. The toolkit aims to expand use and re-usability of PreK12-centric learning resources through informed practices regarding copyright, open-licensing, and accessibility and includes a variety of resources: videos, presentations, transcripts, activities, guides, assignments, and assessment tools.
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Using Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Justice
Kevin Adams; Murray Anderson; Elissah Becknell; CJ Ivory · Association of College and Research Libraries · 2022
As so often is the case, the idea for this book came from a twisting path. Not long after we began collaborating and presenting together at conferences, we were invited to draft a chapter on critical race theory (CRT) in academic libraries. An invited chapter is, of course, very flattering, so we proceeded without much thought to who the publisher would be. Angela had been working on social justice issues for a while at that point, while CJ had a wealth of expertise on open educational resources (OER). We merged our two areas of expertise in drafting that chapter, discussing OER as an opportunity to not only save students money but incorporate CRT into the curriculum—both in content and in practice. We submitted the final draft and were dismayed when we received the publication agreement. The publisher was unwilling to allow us to retain the copyright, even after we shared the licensing agreement that the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Press uses as an example. In discussing how to proceed—should we submit this chapter somewhere else?—we realized that we were really excited about extending the discussion of OER beyond just ensuring that all students can afford to access their course materials. So we pitched the idea of an edited volume on this topic to a publisher that we know has publishing practices we support (chapter authors retain copyright and select the Creative Commons license they prefer for their work), and here we are! Our entrance to academic work on social justice was through a focus on CRT. We outline this background here but wish to emphasize that it explicitly addresses only one aspect of social justice. For us, the structural understanding of racism in the United States creates a foundation upon which to understand other structures of oppression as well as intersectionality.
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Elementary Earth and Space Science Methods
Ted Neal · University of Iowa · 2019
We created this book to help you as both a college student and a future teacher. Dr. Ted Neal asked us to help him create this resource from the perspective of students who have taken Science Methods II–what would we want in a textbook for this course? With this in mind, we have gathered and created resources to help you better understand science and feel confident in your abilities as a future teacher. This book is divided into five parts which align with the Science Methods II course: Physics Space Science Earth Science Climate Science Course Materials and Pedagogy Within each part, the material is broken down into smaller chapters. Here you will find written explanations, video links, glossary terms, key takeaways, and practice quizzes to help you understand the material. This book is designed to be a flexible resource; use it as much or as little as you need throughout the course.
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ECED21203 Curriculum Development in Early Childhood Education
LueCrecy Ragan & Emily Harris · Arkansas State University-Beebe
In the contents: 1.1.01: How Young Children Learn - What Science Reveals · 11: Science Curriculum · 11.01: Science Sections
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Physical Geology
Steven Earle · Vancover Island University
In the contents: 20.02: Industrial Materials
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ENVS C100: Environmental Science
Tanya Hoerer · Coastline College
In the contents: 1.01: Environmental Science Preface · 1.02: What Is Science and How Does It Work · 1.2.01: What is Science
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Library 1600: Introduction to College-Level Research
Library Instruction Services · Iowa State University
In the contents: 3.09: Getting Access to Materials
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Historical Geology
Callan Bentley, Karen Layou, Russ Kohrs, Shelley Jaye, Matt Affolter, and Brian Ricketts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 04: Earth Materials - The Rock Forming Minerals · 05: Earth Materials - Rocks · 7.02: Geology as a historical science
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Vectors
Neeharika Thakur · Prince George's Community College
In the contents: 1.05: Scalars and Vectors (Video) Bozman Science · 1.07: Additional Materials · 2.04: Adding Two Vectors Graphically (Video) Math and Science
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The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
Sanjoy Mahajan · Olin College of Engineering
In the contents: 5.05: Atoms molecules and materials
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TLP Library I
Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS) · University of Cambridge
In the contents: 04: Atomic Scale Structure of Materials · 18: Dielectric materials · 23: Elasticity in Biological Materials
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Infant and Toddler Care and Development
Kim Laplante · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 12.05: Materials that Support Cognitive Development · 16.06: The Science of Multilingualism Development · 27.07: How to Make Adaptions to Materials to Meet the Needs of an Infant or Toddler
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Chem 260: Inorganic Chemistry
Steven N. Girard · University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
In the contents: 09: Electronic Properties of Materials - Superconductors and Semiconductors · 9.01: Prelude to Electronic Properties of Materials - Superconductors and Semiconductors · 11: Basic Science of Nanomaterials
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Cuidado y educación de bebés y niños pequeños
Frank Guevara, Barbara Edwards, Linda Eberhardt & Vivian Baker · Cerro Coso Community College
In the contents: 24.07: How to Make Adaptions to Materials to Meet the Needs of an Infant or Toddler
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Earth Science
CK-12 Foundation · LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: The Nature of Science · 1.06: The Nature of Science- Challenge 1 · 1.12: The Nature of Science- Challenge 2
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Introduction to Historical Geology
Kelly Ruppert, Tor Lacy, and Emily Haddad · Coastline College, Cerritos College, and East Los Angeles College
In the contents: 04: Earth Materials - Minerals · 05: Earth Materials - Rocks
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Cerro Coso Community College: Care and Education of Infants and Toddlers
Frank Guevara, Barbara Edwards, Linda Eberhardt & Vivian Baker · Cerro Corso Community College
In the contents: 2.7.10: Too Little Toys or Materials · 19.06: The Science of Multilingualism Development · 24.07: How to Make Adaptions to Materials to Meet the Needs of an Infant or Toddler
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BIOL 212: Botany Lab
Brad Basehore and Rae Dennis · Harrisburg Area Community College
In the contents: 1.02: Introduction and Materials · 3.02: Introduction and Materials · 4.02: Introduction and Materials