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Textbooks, references and open learning resources.
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Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
Anup Lamichhane · Oho Northern University
In this book, you will learn key techniques for solving differential equations that arise in science and engineering applications. You will also build a strong foundation in linear algebra concepts that support these methods.
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Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers
Mike Caulfield · Washington State University Vancouver
The web is both the largest propaganda machine ever created and the most amazing fact-checking tool ever invented. But if we haven't taught our students those capabilities is it any surprise that propaganda is winning? This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly.
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Chem 10: Concepts of Chemistry
Woodland Community College
Survey of basic concepts and practices of chemistry; designed for non-science majors desiring an introduction to fundamental chemistry concepts and skills. Not intended for students who will enroll in subsequent chemistry coursework.
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Studying and Living in the US, Low-Intermediate Novel and Textbook for University ESL Students
Amber Bliss Calderón · Portland State University
Each unit begins with a chapter of fiction about a teacher and students in one ESL class. Reading comprehension and reading skills exercises follow. Prefix and suffix vocabulary-focus exercises are included. Academic Word List vocabulary exercises help students build a strong foundation in both receptive and productive knowledge. The chapters in each unit expand on unit themes through non-fiction articles focusing on academic preparation, international experiences, and cultural adjustment.
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Global Femicide: Indigenous Women and Girls Torn from Our Midst (Anderson, Pete, Kubik, and Rucklos-Hampton)
Brenda Anderson, Shauneen Pete, Wendee Kubik, and Mary Rucklos-Hampton · University of Regina
This book underscores the common, interlocking effects of racism and sexism on Indigenous women. Family members, scholars and researchers, artists, activists and policy-makers provide their decade-long perspectives, providing testimony and evidence that sexualized and racialized violence is not only a product of historic colonization but continues to manifest in entrenched systems of colonization and global femicide. The analysis and the heart of all the authors is generously shared.
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Word Processing
Saylor Academy · LibreTexts
This course will teach you how to create documents using Microsoft Word and Google Docs. It is designed for students with little or no experience with these word processing programs. We will review some basic editing and formatting tools and how to create and print a business letter. Google Docs and Microsoft Word share many of the same formatting features and functions, and most of the features we explore in this course can be used in both programs.
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Organic Chemistry l I
Layne Morsch et al. · LibreTexts
The study of structure determines their structural formula. Study of properties includes physical and chemical properties, and evaluation of chemical reactivity to understand their behavior. This is a textbook map of the first 11 chapters of McMurry's "Organic Chemistry" textbook; it is not a copy of the original textbook, but is an original construction or remix of comparable OER content on LibreTexts to recreate its organization.
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Health, Safety, Nutrition
Alice Hale · Chabot College
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Instructional Technology
Susan Dumler · Fort Hays State University
A fifteen chapter book covering the basics of instructional technology; specifically designed for pre-service teachers. This text is designed to teach you how to apply the amazing digital tools available today to make your classroom and your life more interactive, efficient, and connected. This site is organized into chapters developed to teach you how to use technology with an emphasis on educational technology.
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ARHS10003 Fine Arts-Visual
Lisa Floryshak, PhD and LueCrecy Ragan, EdD · Arkansas State University-Beebe
Introduction to Fine Arts - Visual introduces students of all backgrounds to the visual arts by outlining the fundamental concepts that shape how artworks are created and understood. It explains the elements of art, the principles of design, and basic methods for analyzing painting, sculpture, and architecture, while emphasizing how historical and cultural contexts influence artistic meaning. These foundations help develop informed criteria for appreciating a wide range of the visual arts.
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PASS Chemistry Book 1500
Lindsay Blackstock & Sharon Brewer · Thompson Rivers University
This book contains solutions to selected OER chemistry practice problems across the CHEM 1500 content. The PASS framework includes the answer, strategy map, solution and guided solution for each question.
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Principles of Microeconomics 3e
OpenStax · LibreTexts
Principles of Microeconomics 3e covers the scope and sequence of most one semester introductory microeconomics courses. The third edition takes a balanced approach to the theory and application of microeconomics concepts. The text uses conversational language and ample illustrations to explore economic theories, and provides a wide array of examples using both fictional and real-world applications. The third edition has been carefully and thoroughly updated to reflect recent developments.
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Authoring Culture: The Foundations of Twenty-first Century Writing
The Authoring Culture Collective · Columbia College Chicago
This text is designed to help 21st Century college students with writing.
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Dance Studies
Debra Worth · Folsom Lake College
What is dance? Dance is more than movement. “Dance is a transient mode of expression, performed in a given form and style by the human body moving in space. Dance occurs through purposefully selected and controlled rhythmic movements; the resulting phenomenon is recognized as dance by both the performer and the observing members of a given group” (Keali’inohomoku, 1983). This book will survey many dance forms from around the world. But why study dance at all?
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Contemporary Calculus
Jeff Eldridge · Edmonds College
An OER textbook for differential, integral and vector calculus.
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Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive
Mark Briggs · University of South Florida
This handbook introduces journalists to the skills necessary to survive and thrive in the digital environment. The content is practical, not conceptual, and readers will be able to perform skills the same day they read about them. The handbook is organized to focus on on discipline at a time, and guides users along the way, breaking down each skill and technology into digestible lessons that will be immediately usable.
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Information Literacy - Research and Collaboration across Disciplines
LibreTexts
This collection brings together scholarship and pedagogy from multiple perspectives and disciplines, offering nuanced and complex perspectives on Information Literacy in the second decade of the 21st century. The chapters in this collection consider six frameworks that place students in the role of both consumer and producer of information within today's collaborative information environments.
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Mechanics Map
Jacob Moore et al. · Pennsylvania State University Mont Alto
The Mechanics Map is an open textbook for engineering statics and dynamics containing written explanations, video lectures, worked examples, and homework problems. All content is licensed under a creative commons share-alike license, so feel free to use, share, or remix the content. The table of contents below links to all available topics, while the about, instructor resources, and contributing tabs provide information to those looking to learn more about the project in general.
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Corequisite Companion to Precalculus
Jennifer Freidenreich · Diablo Valley College
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Mechanical Engineering Capstone
Joshua Steimel · Cal Poly Humboldt
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