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Action Research
J. Spencer Clark, Suzanne Porath, Julie Thiele, and Morgan Jobe · Kansas State University
Action research is a common journey for graduate students in education and other human science fields. This book attempts to meet the needs of graduate students, in-service teachers, and any other educators interested in action research and/or self-study. The primary purpose of this book is to offer clear steps and practical guidance to those who intend to carry out action research for the first time.
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Creative Clinical Teaching in the Health Professions
Melrose, Park, & Perry · Athabasca University
In the contents: 1.05: TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED CLINICAL EDUCATION
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Teaching with Technology (L&S Learning Support Services)
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Instructional Methods Strategies and Technologies to Meet the Needs of All Learners
Paula Lombardi · LibreTexts
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Being Human: An Introduction to Western Culture
Jacqui Shehorn · West Hills College Lemoore
The humanities are branches of study focused on culture, values, and other ways that humans express themselves, like literature, art, history, philosophy, and religion. The idea of the humanities originates in Greece with paideia, or general education beginning with the Sophists in the fifth century BCE. The goal of these studies was to prepare young men to be good and active citizens and Cicero’s humanitas, which prepared young men to be orators.
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Introduction to Biosystems Engineering
Nicholas M. Holden, Mary Leigh Wolfe, Jactone Arogo Ogejo, & Enda J. Cummins · University College Dublin and Virginia Tech
The discipline of Biosystems Engineering emerged from the traditional strongholds of Agricultural and Food Engineering with the goal of advancing engineering solutions toward creating a sustainable world with abundant food, water, and energy, while maintaining a healthy environment. While the discipline has continued to grow, so has the demand for quality educational resources to teach Biosystems Engineering courses. The publication of this book marks an important step in meeting that demand.
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Brass Techniques and Pedagogy
Brian N. Weidner · Butler University
This text is intended to serve as a guide for the band music educator. The text is written with the non-brass playing music education student in mind and focuses on developing beginning levels of brass technique alongside a more expansive understanding of brass fundamentals and pedagogy. While a basic level of technical proficiency will be developed throughout this text, the ability to teach beginning to intermediate brass players effectively with sound pedagogy is its primary purpose.
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Chem 2A: Introduction to General Chemistry
Divan Fard · Shasta College
Introduction to General Chemistry (Chem 2A) is an open educational resource designed to provide students with a strong foundation in fundamental chemical principles, quantitative problem-solving, and real-world applications. Covering essential topics such as atomic structure, chemical bonding, reactions, stoichiometry, gases, solutions, acids, and nuclear chemistry, this resource supports student success through clear, accessible instruction.
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Social Studies, Art, Music, and Movement
Vicki Tanck · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This textbook covers social studies, art, music, and movement in early childhood education. It includes chapters on play-based learning, environments, learning experiences, and interdisciplinary activities.
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Technical Mathematics SJDC 1
Jacquelynn Schwegel · San Joaquin Delta College
This Technical Math course develops the computational, analytical, and problem-solving skills needed in many CTE (Career Technical Education) programs. Topics include number sense, ratios, percentages and proportional reasoning, measurement and geometry, trigonometric applications and an introduction to vectors. Emphasis is placed on critical thinking and skilled-trade applications. (CSU)
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Geology of California
Allison Jones, Cole Heap, Debra Brooks, Emily Wright, Martha House, Steven Newton & Steven Skinner · Academic Senate of California Community Colleges Open Education Resources Initiative
This Open Educational Resource (OER) aims to provide students at California's institutions of higher education an interactive and immersive tool to support their learning about the geology of California with up-to-date information about the golden state's climate, earthquake hazards, and water issues. This work is supported by the Academic Senate of California Community Colleges Open Education Resources Initiative.
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ECE Field Experience 4 (NWTC)
Vicki Tanck · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
In the contents: 2.01: Diversity and Equity in Early Childhood Education
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How to Learn Like a Pro!
Nissila · LibreTexts
How to Learn Like a Pro! features the “big six” effective learning/study skills topics: learning styles and preferences, time and materials management, critical thinking and reading, note-taking, memory principles, and test-taking techniques. Each of the six units featuring a total of twenty-three lessons and accompanying exercises (with a dash of humor here and there) were developed with the diverse student body of the community college in mind as well as learners in other educational venues.
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Cheminformatics
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This course is sponsored by the ACS Division of Chemical Education's Committee on Computers in Chemical Education. This course is designed for either graduate students, or upper division undergraduate students. In this course students will lean how molecules are represented on computers, and use PubChem and a variety of open source software to learn some basic coding and to access and analyze data obtained through a variety of APIs.
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LibreTexts Accessibility Toolkit
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A guide for creating and curating accessible LibreTexts
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Persuasion, Critical Thinking, and Writing
Paula Cardwell · ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative
This text was written to support introductory persuasion courses. Material to support a persuasive critical thinking and writing course is included. Material can be easily remixed or adapted to support a persuasive speaking course.
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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.