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Organizational Behavior
Jamie Hammond · Western Technical College
I developed a new Organizational Behavior course that will be used in the Business Management program at Western Technical College. This is the first core course in the program and it is designed to introduce students to human behaviors in the workplace. Additionally, effective communication is emphasized throughout the course and students are encouraged to cultivate a growth mindset.
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CHEM1111-General Inorganic Chemistry I Lab Manual-Online Section
Manjusha Saraswathiamma · Minnesota State Community and Technical College
This lab manual is designed for General Inorganic Chemistry I students who are taking the course online. The lab experiments need to be completed remotely from home. The lab report sheets can be found under the course shell on D2L Brightspace.
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Spectroscopy
Divan Fard · Shasta College
This graduate-level spectroscopy remix provides an introduction to modern molecular and atomic spectroscopy. Topics include UV-Visible absorption, molecular luminescence, infrared, Raman, atomic spectroscopy, and NMR, with emphasis on the principles and applications of spectroscopic methods in chemistry.
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Chemistry 2305
British Columbia Institute of Technology · LibreTexts
This course provides an introduction to instrumental techniques (i.e. spectroscopy, electrochemistry, chromatography) with a focus on applications for the clinical lab. The course also includes an overview of biological chemistry and the methods used to analyze relevant biological molecules.
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Western Civilization - A Concise History II
Christopher Brooks · Portland Community College
Volume II addresses the early Middle Ages to the French Revolution in 1789 CE. This text covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
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The Discipline of Organizing
Robert J. Glushko · University of California at Berkeley
Every Organizing System involves a collection of resources, a choice of properties or principles used to describe and arrange resources, and ways of supporting interactions with resources. By comparing and contrasting how these activities take place in different contexts and domains, we can identify patterns of organizing. We can create a discipline of organizing in a disciplined way.
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International Finance - Theory and Policy
Anonymous · LibreTexts
Intermediate-level international economics texts seem to fall into one of two class. Some are written for students who may one day continue in advanced training and develop advanced general equilibrium models and use sophisticated mathematics. Other intermediate texts are written for noneconomics majors and present descriptive information about the world and the bare basics about how economic models are used to describe that world. This text strives to reach a median between both approaches.
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Economics_3Units
Wen-Chen Lo 羅玟甄 · Tzu Chi University 慈濟大學
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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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Population and Quantitative Genetics
Graham Coop · University of California, Davis
LibreTexts
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Exploring Socio-Cultural Perspectives in Diversity
Deanna Cozart et al. · University of Georgia
The fundamental knowledge of understanding culture and teaching children from diverse backgrounds. Examination of the nature and function of culture, development of individual and group cultural identity, definitions and implications of diversity, and the influences of culture on learning, development, and pedagogy. This course has a required field experience component.
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Philosophy Readings
Cathy Hagman and Glen Nesse · Whatcom Community College
Introduction to the problems, history and nature of philosophy with reading and discussion of selected writings from the Pre-Socrates to the present, focusing on traditional Western philosophical issues.
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CAREER 110: Career and Life Planning
Kimberly Galbraith · Diablo Valley College
This text presents research strategies for effective career and major choice selection. Students will use a variety of techniques to find, retrieve, and evaluate career planning information as well as career assessments to identify their preferred work values, interests, and personality traits. Focus is placed on the exploration of labor market needs, educational and employment requirements, and career ladders within given professions resulting in an effective educational and job search plan.
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Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook
Ashley Lemke · University of Texas at Arlington
Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook, is designed to assist students in the Intro to Archaeology course by giving them questions and assignments to reinforce what is learned in the classroom lectures.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit
Lee A. Swanson · University of Saskatchewan
This book is designed for upper year undergraduate students and graduate students studying fundamental entrepreneurship concepts. The business world is often equated to an ecosystem: the environment is comprised of interacting organizations and individuals much like the biological ecosystem. Entrepreneurship is no different, as it can be thought of as its own ecosystem, with new ventures being created, maturing, needing to adapt, or becoming extinct.
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Digging into Archaeology: A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities
Amanda Wolcott Paskey and AnnMarie Beasley Cisneros · Cosumnes River College & American River College
This book is intended for use in a variety of introductory archaeology settings, such as in lectures and lab courses. This text can complement an existing traditional text or completely replace a standard text. It can be used for its activities or as a study resource. When we wrote this text, we designed the chapters to be brief, providing concise and to-the-point information.
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Fundamentals of Psychological Disorders
Alexis Bridley and Lee W. Daffin Jr. · Washington State University
Fundamentals of Psychological Disorders (formerly Abnormal Psychology) tackles the difficult topic of mental disorders in 15 modules and is updated through the DSM-5-TR. After the first three foundational modules, a discussion of mental disorders ensues to include depressive, anxiety, personality, schizophrenic, eating, and obsessive-compulsive to name a few.
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Small Group Communication and Presentation
LibreTexts
This book covers the dynamics of small-group communication. Students will explore their own communication skills and weaknesses through the application of critical thinking and analysis. They'll learn a variety of problem-solving and leadership techniques, including how to conduct meetings and discussions, as well as how to effectively and persuasively present information within small groups and as a small group to a larger audience, using research methods together to analyze information.
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GIS Commons: An Introductory Textbook on Geographic Information Systems
Michael Schmandt · Sacramento State University
This e-text focuses primarily on Geographic Information Systems (GIS)—a geospatial technology that enables you to create spatial databases, analyze spatial patterns, and produce maps that communicate more effectively. While this GIS textbook is principally an introduction to GIS, most of the chapter’s concepts are applicable to other geotechnologies including remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), Internet mapping, and virtual globes.
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CHEM 176: General Chemistry II
Shirley Fischer-Drowos · Widener University
This is the second semester of chemistry for science, biomedical and chemical engineering, and pre-med programs. Topics include gas laws, colligative properties, kinetics, equilibria, acids/bases, buffers, titrations, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and molecular orbital theory. An understanding of how chemistry applies to living systems and the natural world, green chemistry, and sustainable chemistry applications are emphasized.