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Child Family Community: The Socialization of Diverse Children
Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz · College of the Canyons
We hope this text is a guide and resource in building awareness, knowledge and skills as a current or future educators. We also want to thank the previous authors for their contribution and allowing us a starting point to enhance the original text. The chapters are organized with learning objectives, embedded terms and definitions, critical reflection and practical application of the content and topics.
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Creative Development in Young Child
Donna King · Irvine Valley College
Creative Development in Young Children (HD131) is an early childhood education course exploring how children's creative and artistic abilities grow. It teaches educators how to nurture divergent thinking, support symbolic representation in art, and design environments that encourage imaginative play and sensory exploration.
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Early Childhood Literacy Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers - Birth to Age 5
Christine Pegorraro Schull, Leslie La Croix, Sara E. Miller, Kimberly Sanders Austin, and Julie K. Kidd · Virtual Library of Virginia
This textbook, Early Childhood Literacy: Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers – Birth to Age 5, provides a comprehensive introduction to emergent literacy development in early childhood education (ECE). It emphasizes that literacy begins well before formal reading and writing instruction and develops through children’s relationships, language experiences, play, home environments, and interactions with books and writing materials.
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Child, Family, and Community
Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz · College of the Canyons
Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives.
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Ethical Use of Technology in Digital Learning Environments - Graduate Student Perspectives
Barbara Brown et al. · University of Calgary
In the contents: 01.1: Chapter 1: Ethical Considerations When Using Artificial Intelligence-Based Assistive Technologies in Education · 02.3: Chapter 6: STEM Beyond the Acronym: Ethical Considerations in Standardizing STEM Education in K-12
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Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry
Divan Fard · Shasta College
Introduction to Organic and Biological Chemistry is an open educational resource designed to make high-quality chemistry education freely accessible to all students. This textbook bridges organic chemistry and biochemistry with clear explanations, biological relevance, and practical applications for health and life science learners. As a Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) resource, it advances equity, affordability, and student success in STEM education.
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Critical Expressivism - Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom
Roeder & Gatto · LibreTexts
Critical Expressivism is an ambitious attempt to re-appropriate intellectual territory that has more often been charted by its detractors than by its proponents. Indeed, as Peter Elbow observes in his contribution to this volume, "As far as I can tell, the term 'expressivist' was coined and used only by people who wanted a word for people they disapproved of and wanted to discredit."
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The OER Starter Kit for Program Managers
Abbey K. Elder, Stefanie Buck, Jeff Gallant, Marco Seiferle-Valencia, and Apurva Ashok · rebus Foundation
In the contents: 01: A Quick Guide to Open Education · 1.01: Introduction to Open Educational Resources · 1.02: Open Education
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Methods of Teaching Early Literacy
Nandita Gurjar, Sohyun Meacham, and Constance Beecher · Iowa State University
Theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion.
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Mastering Open Ed: Licensing, Accessibility, Creation, and Publishing OER
eCampus Onterio · LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: Open Education and OER · 1.03: Finding Open Educational Resources · 2.04: Open Licensing for Education
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College Success
Cengage Learning · LibreTexts
Students first discover what they want from their education, then build a plan to get there. This content takes students through the steps to successfully navigate their journey in higher education. Topics include planning for success, choosing a career path, setting and attaining goals, understanding financial management, developing critical thinking skills, making healthy choices, using effective communication, managing time, developing learning strategies, developing meaningful relationships.
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Introduction to Biotechnology
Orange County Biotechnology Education Collaborative · LibreTexts
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Interpersonal Communication
Kelsey Paiz · Diablo Valley College
This text covers verbal and nonverbal skills, active listening, self-concept, and conflict resolution. It meets general education requirements and transfers to CSU and UC systems for communication studies.
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Exploring the U.S. Healthcare System
Karen Valaitis · University of West Florida
This open educational resource (OER) introduces students to foundational characteristics of the U.S. healthcare system. While this OER book was curated and created for undergraduate students in the field of healthcare, it is my hope that it will continue to be customized to other programs and shared again.
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MVCC Sleep Technologies Project
Ellen Lawrence · Moraine Valley Community College
This textbook outlines the essential components of effective sleep centers and laboratories, emphasizing both clinical and managerial aspects of sleep medicine. They describe the roles of key personnel—including Medical Directors, Physician Sleep Specialists, Advanced Practice Practitioners, Managers, Clinical Sleep Educators, and Sleep Technologists—highlighting their contributions to patient care, education, and improved outcomes. A supportive, patient-centered environment and adherence to Ame
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Medical Terminology 2e
OpenRN · Chippewa Valley Technical College
This textbook is an open educational resource (OER) that is aligned with the course competencies of Wisconsin Technical College System’s Medical Terminology course (10-501-101). The Medical Terminology course focuses on learning the components of medical terms, including prefixes, suffixes, and word roots, and also introduces students to diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical, and symptomatic terminology of all body systems.
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Our Voices: A Guide to Citing Personal Experience and Interviews in Research
Emily Willard, Emma Macdonald-Scott, and Jake Lally · University of Washington
Our hope is that this guide to citing personal experience and interviews meets our goal of supporting students to produce their own knowledge, as well as honoring the academic value of their lived experience and the experiences of their families and communities. Through the use of a set of guidelines we created for students to cite personal experience and interviews, we found students self-reported increase in engagement and success in academic assignments.
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Experimental Design
Lydia Yang · Kansas State University
This text is used for EDCEP 917 Experimental Design in Education at Kansas State University every spring semester via K-State Global Campus. This course covers various experimental designs appropriate in educational research.
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Instructor Guide: Tarea Libre-First-Year Spanish
Cristina Moon, Alejandro Lee, Sarah Harmon & Nancy Meléndez-Ballesteros · OERI
This is an instructor guide to Tarea Libre - a comprehensive and accessible Open Educational Resources question bank of 1,400 interactive activities created in LibreStudio and ADAPT for first-year Spanish courses for California Community Colleges.
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CAREER 110: Career and Life Planning
Kimberly Galbraith · Diablo Valley College
In the contents: 01: Choosing your Major and Educational Planning · 03: Educational Planning