Open Educational Resources Used

Open Educational Resources Used in Various Colleges and Universities

These lists and links are harvested from the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources list serve (http://cccoer.org ) conversations and a few other sources. This is a work in progress and will grow as more suggestions come in.

Anthropology

The Arts

Biology

Business

Chemistry

Criminal Justice and Law

Communications

Computer and Information Science

Environmental Science

Anthropology

Archeology

Looking for all types of content for Intro to Archaeology and Magic, Folklore and Healing, aka Magic, Witchcraft and Religion or Magic, Myth and Healing for an Anthropology colleague of mine.

One of our instructors shared her materials for the Magic course in Canvas Commons. I think this link will work: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/28e54a4e827241b2a4f4847feb6f29e9
If not, search commons for “magic, witchcraft and religion” and the course should come up.

Anthropology

We list a selection of Anthropology Open Access and OER here as well.
http://library.hccs.edu/guides/anthropology/websites

I have an anthropology instructor who is seeking a quality text on taxonomy and behavior of primates for an introductory anthro course. He already has Our Tribe from OpenSUNY but would like something specifically on primates. He is also seeking a concise OER on evolution.

I am one of the managing editors for a new peer-reviewed, mulit-authored, open access introduction to biological anthropology textbook that will be coming out in the Fall of 2019 (produced in part by the Society of Anthropology in Community Colleges and the American Anthropological Association). It will be a comprehensive text that can be used for four-field introductory courses (in conjunction with the new open access Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology< http://perspectives.americananthro.org/ > textbook) as well as biological anthropology courses. If he would like to get on our email list of the first to have access and receive notice of the completed text he can send us his email.

Below are some of the resources I use for Evolution in my Biology course.
Berkeley has a great Evolution tutorial (and lots of other great content). It’s not Open, but you can link to it for free. This is probably the best of these resources for straight evolution. They have lots of great stuff.
OpenStax Concepts of Biology. This is their book for non-majors. They also have a book for majors if you need more depth in the evolution sections. [You can pick out the specific chapters]
CK-12 Biology. This site covers material for Kindergarten through college; so the depth of coverage varies greatly. They have a long list of concepts; search for evolution within. I have found that students really like this resource and it’s nice that you can build a piece that just covers evolution
LearnGenetics has some great resources. These are not Open, but you can link to them for free.
HHMI BioInteractive also has some great resources. Again, not Open but free.

The anthropology department here is looking for an OER with a holistic four field approach (cultural, biological, linguistics, and archaeology) in one textbook. Here's what we've found so far:
ANTH 101: Anthropology for Everyone (mostly cultural?)
Explorations: An Open Invitation To Biological Anthropology
The History of Our Tribe: Hominini
The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology
Speaking of Culture
Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
There are also library ebook licenses available for the following non-OER books:
Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology
How to Think Like an Anthropologist
Invitation to Anthropology
Our Story: How Cultures Shaped People to Get Things Done

I would recommend checking out the various open access offerings in Anthropology as well. For example, the following titles in Berghan books (via Oxford): https://www.berghahnjournals.com/page/berghahn-open-anthro could have some great articles worth integrating into mid-high-level ANTH courses.
In addition, I would recommend:
Cultural Anthropology
Indigenous Knowledge: Other Ways of Knowing
Anthropological Review
Student Anthropologist (this is particularly exciting as a potential peer learning experience with open pedagogy prospects)

We've got a new archeology offering - which we still need to place in a format that allows for customization:
Digging into Archaeology: A Brief OER Introduction to Archaeology with Activities
In addition, our faculty have created ancillaries for both Explorations and Perspectives, if that might be of interest.

Over at LibreTexts. we have a number of textbooks that can be easily remixed on the page level (using our drag and drop remixer) to get close to what your anthro folks want. I;ll list some of the books, which seem obvious to me, but there may be others that they could find if they looked around on our bookshelves and we could import any of the ones that you list into our format for them to use
Cultural Anthropology Book: Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: Native Peoples of North America
Cultural Anthropology Book: Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology Book: The Art of Being Human
Cultural Anthropology Book: Perspectives - An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology
Physical Anthropology Book: The History of Our Tribe - Hominini
Physical Anthropology Book: Biological Anthropology
Physical Anthropology Book: Physical Anthropology
Physical Anthropology Book: Biological Anthropology - Laboratory Activities
Archeology Book: Writing as Material Practice - Substance, Surface and Medium
Ancillary Materials Interactive Fossils
Archeology Book: Writing as Material Practice - Substance, Surface and Medium
Sociology Book: Beyond Race - Cultural Influences on Human Social Life
Geography (Human) Book: Introduction to Human Geography

I have a faculty member at the College of Lake County who is looking for material for an applied Anthropology course.
They are hoping to find resources on how anthropology is applied in each of the topics number 3-11.
The first two are more to give a well rounded understanding of anthropology, applied anthropology and fieldwork methods and theories
before diving into how to apply those methods and theories.
1. Introduction to Applied Anthropology
2. Anthropological Fieldwork Methods and Theories
3. Language Revitalization
4. Archaeology
5. Business
6. Medical Anthropology
7. Economy
8. Food and Nutrition in Education
9. Media
10. Sustainability
11. Social Justice

My name is Lindsay Josephs, and I work for OpenStax. We're an educational initiative based out of Rice University.
With the support of our philanthropic partners, we publish free online, peer-reviewed, openly-licensed textbooks.

OpenStax currently has a free Anthropology textbook on our website with applied chapters on the anthropology of food,
medical anthropology, anthropology of media, human-animal relationships, and Indigenous anthropology. I've pasted the descriptions below:

“Anthropology of Food,” including material on food artifacts, ancient foodways and food reconstructions, food as cultural heritage,
food prescriptions and proscriptions, and the globalization of food.
“Medical Anthropology,” with material on the history of medical anthropology, the social construction of health,
common medical anthropology methods and theoretical approaches, and applied medical anthropology.
"Anthropology of Media,” addressing topics such as visual anthropology and ethnographic film, photography and representation,
news media and the public sphere, the role of media in the development of national identity, and digital media.
“Human-Animal Relationships,” including discussions of multispecies ethnography, human-animal empathy,
human-animal relationships among people practicing varying subsistence strategies, animal symbolism in oral tradition and religion,
and pet keeping.
“Indigenous Anthropology,” which, through the lens of the experiences of the Indigenous peoples of North America, addresses
the historical and contemporary challenges facing Indigenous people, including issues of agency, rights, and identity, as well as exploring Indigenous material cultures, perspectives, and worldviews.
The text also offers a chapter on cultural and archaeological research methods.
You can access the textbook for free online here: https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-anthropology.
Please let me know if you have any questions or require any further support.
We currently offer 3 free online chemistry textbooks: Chemistry 2e, Chemistry: Atoms First 2e,
and John McMurry's Organic Chemistry: A Tenth Edition.
These textbooks also come with free instructor and student resources, including solutions manuals,
LMS course cartridges, supplemental test items, and lecture slides.
OpenStax currently offers two free accounting textbooks: Principles of Financial Accounting and Principles of Managerial Accounting.
Lyryx offers a low-cost accounting homework system aligned to financial and managerial accounting. The program includes spreadsheets,
algorithm problems, and a high degree of customization. Please visit Lyryx to learn more.

Archeology

Cannabis

A faculty member is seeking an OER textbook for a course about Anthropology & Cannabis.
Ideally it would be materials that deal with cannabis related to each of the four branches of anthropology: cultural, physical, linguistic, and archaeology.
Have any of you come across a single resource that addresses this?
I'm guessing that the faculty will need to do some remixing to achieve this text.
But I figured I'd check with all of you first!!

Here is the non-OER book that I had been recommending to Jennifer. I thought it was 2019, but it turns out that it's 1975.
https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Culture-World-Anthropology-Rubin/dp/9027976694/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=anthropology+cannabis&qid=1581093490&s=books&sr=1-1

Cultural Anthropology

Hi there, during this year our anthropology program is piloting the new OER (open sourced) Intro to Cultural Anthropology text that is published by our Society for Anthropology in the Community College (SACC) colleagues:
http://sacc.americananthro.org/publication/open-source-textbook/
Critique: We've found it is a mixed bag; some of the chapters are quite good, others are really bad, some are entirely superfluous for an intro text. We have been ensured that SACC plans to do a much better job with the 102 text. Our colleague Joylin Namie will be a co-author and I've spoken with the editors about our concerns for the 101 text.
Question: Our plan is to supplement the existing SACC OER 101 text by substituting better chapters from other texts for some of the topics. How much of any non-OER published text can we copy/PDF and provide to our students online through Canvas without getting in trouble with private publishers or the law? I've heard the number is 3 chapters, but I want to be sure. I want an official answer based on what is known to be legal and professionally ethical at this time. Our goal is to make this work, to finalize an acceptable text for our ANTH 101 students, and move forward not having to worry about legal or ethical issues. Thanks in advance for your advice.

I am one of the authors of this textbook and I can assure you that the second edition of Perspectives is in progress. In it, there will be a new introduction chapter and changes to some of the other chapters. I know that SUNY anth faculty have adapted and changed some of the textbook chapters to better fit their needs. They may be willing to share with you what they produced from thePerspectives text. It may work as a stop gap until the second edition is completed sometime next year.

I am also one of the editors for the new SACC biological anthropology textbook: Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology. I hope Joylin Namie won’t mind me saying that she did indeed write a marvelous chapter for Explorations. The completed volume will be available by Fall, 2019.
All the best,
Katie Nelson, Ph.D.
Instructor, Anthropology
Equity and Inclusion Coordinator
(Pronouns: she, her, hers)
Chair, Teaching Anthropology Interest Group, AAA
Communications Coordinator, General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association
Online Content Editor, Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal
Inver Hills Community College
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55056
Office: Fine Arts Building, Room 157
Phone: 651-450-3492

Physical Anthropology

Can anyone recommend texts/mash-ups for an introductory Physical Anthro course (not cultural anthro).

We can recommend the Open SUNY Textbook The History of our Tribe: Hominini. It may not be a full answer to everything in the physical anthropology course but will be a good starting resource.

The Arts

Art Appreciation

We have an instructor who would like to go textless in her Art Appreciation course. Do any of you know of any great OER textbooks and resources for this discipline? Also, it would be great to know where to find copyright free images of artworks. I know that some museums have released photos of artworks under a Creative Commons license. I would appreciate any college level art resources that are also accessible.

I have an instructor using smarthistory.

Wikimedia Commons has access to copyright free artworks. I don’t have a textbook source, but that’s a good place to start for the slides.

This is what first popped to mind for me: Metropolitan Museum of Art releases 375,000 digital works for remix and re-use online via CC0:
https://creativecommons.org/2017/02/07/met-announcement/

I have not used this resource, but it looks pretty solid:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-masteryart1/

We are using this open textbook for our Art Appreciation course: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/arts-textbooks/3/

The instructor may find some ideas here: http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/
And an aside, the instructor may also be interested in this new OA journal, Art History Pedagogy and Practice: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/ahpp/

Introduction to the History of Modern Art (OER) was developed by Prof. Sharon Jordan at Lehman College (CUNY): http://arh141.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

Our Art History LibGuide lists many OA sources under "Websites": http://libguides.lehman.edu/Art

Do you know of any remixes or customizations of Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning? This text has been used in art appreciation courses at Linn-Benton Community College for several years, and we're planning an update. We're also interested in other art appreciation resources. Here's what we found in the Open Textbook Library, OERCommons, and OASIS for open and fairly current resources:

Opening Contemporary Art by Sarah Parrish/Plymouth State University (Pressbook, not open)
Art Appreciation Open Educational Resource (recent series of lessons by Marie Porterfield Barry/East Tennessee State University)
Smarthistory (resources focused on specific periods/regions)
Art Appreciation (Lumen)
Art History I (Lumen/SUNY OER Services)
Introduction to Art Concepts (Lumen)
The Bright Continent: African Art History (Pressbook by Kathy Curnow/ Michael Schwartz Library)
ARTH101: Art Appreciation (Saylor course)

Delmar sent in another resource to add to Michaela's list: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Art/A_World_Perspective_of_Art_Appreciation_(Gustlin_and_Gustlin)

And Jeff connected us with the UNG Press, which published the Introduction to Art text.

Art History

I’m looking for an Art History OER to replace Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages.” Any ideas?
You might find one of these a good replacement: http://oerdegrees.org/courses/art-appreciation-and-art-history/ Pacific Northwest HistoryThe BC Open Textbooks collection has the Canadian History Pre-Confederation. This was just published last year and may have some content of interest.

Try these, mostly primary resources:
http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/
http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/
http://www.ohs.org/
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/
https://www.sos.wa.gov/library/wa_collections.aspx
http://www.washingtonhistory.org/research/research-center/
http://www.historylink.org/
The Tacoma Public Library has a robust Northwest Room:
http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/Page.aspx?hid=265
http://www.tpl.lib.wa.us/Page.aspx?nid=7
as does Seattle's:
http://www.spl.org/library-collection/articles-and-research/local-history

Our Art History and Music (Appreciation) instructors are looking for OER collaborators, and we appreciate it if you would help us with suitable connections.
Our Art History professor was the curator of Getty Villa, and joined our college as a full time instructor few years ago. He is looking to replace his expansive Art History and Art Appreciation books.
Our Music professor was a professional guitar player and member of a band. He also joined our college as a full time instructor few years ago. He is looking to replace his Music Fundamental book.

I suggest you search the CCC OER Advisory listserv if you haven’t already: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/cccoer-advisory
And if you are not finding something suitable, you may want to post what you’re colleagues are looking for there.

I was visiting today Dr. Jones of Boise State University who is working on an Art History OER. I’m wondering if anybody else is working on such a project or would like to use one…Any ideas?
You can see what's in use in Oregon at this link: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=arh
Have a look at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/masteryart1/ - that
course will have some resources he can use.

Many instructors use the resources from smarthhistory/Khan Academy which are very good to reinforce concepts. However, I believe those narratives are intended for AP Art History in High School.
Sometimes I feel our students need a bit more depth or comparison pieces to understand the techniques, style and cultural context.

Gosh, I have to disagree with this assessment of https://smarthistory.org/. It's designed for introductory college level courses, and I think perfectly well pitched for community college students. It is not a stand-alone option, to be sure, but may well get there in time. I am a big fan and encourage anyone interested in art history OER to check it out.

I’m on the hunt for materials for a Modern Art History class (late 19th and 20th century art). From previous listserv conversations I have found these comprehensive texts. Thought I would do another inquiry to see if anything new has come around.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-masteryart1/
https://arh141.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
I think the hardest part for your project is going to be finding images and artworks that can be used for discussion. You might try these museums for images of artwork:
The MET: https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/digital-underground/2017/open-access-at-the-met
The Rijks Studio at the Rijks Musuem: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio

The Open University might have some useful material for you:
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/looking-describing-and-identifying-objects/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/visions-protest-graffiti/content-section-0?active-tab=description-tab
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/making-sense-art-history/content-section-0?active-tab=content-tab
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/art-and-visual-culture-medieval-modern/content-section-3

I am working with a faculty member who is writing an open textbook for her art and design history course.
It is a survey course dealing with the history of art, design, architecture, and interior design for students in the Bachelor of Interior Design program.
She is finding it difficult to find open-source materials dealing with the history of interior design, 1800-today.
She is using some materials from Smart History, but needs more resources for the history of design, interior design, and architecture. If you know of any materials that would be suitable for new-to-art-history students, please share!

A faculty member at PCC is using a library ebook for an interior design course, which suggests that you're not the only one running into this gap!
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=interior
Here's an intro to architecture open textbook also created by a PCC faculty member: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/art101/

We are looking for OER sources for ART 101, which would be some art appreciation and some art history topics. I went through the Open Textbook Library and didn’t really find anything that matches what we are hoping for. Do you have any good resources to suggest?

Not sure if this would work for you, but this is the Open Art Histories site:
https://openarthistories.ca/

Hi Susan, you can see what's in use in Oregon for 100-level art courses here: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=art%201

Susan - Here's the collection we have compiled for California community college faculty - Open Educational Resources and Art/Art History.
We have a system of intersegmentally developed course descriptors for most courses - so you can quickly establish what a particular resource should cover.

You will likely find what you are looking through in our (LibreTexts) corpus. Here are two search URLs for your review.
Delmar
https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22art%20appreciation%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random
https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22art%20history%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random

Color Theorey

I'm trying to find out what is available for a color theory course. Details below.
Thanks!
Michelle
In the California Community Colleges it is C-ID ARTS 270 - and is described as follows:
Specified Texts
Fisher & Zelanski. Color.
Finlay, Victoria. Color - Natural History of the Palette.
David Horning. Color- A Workshop Approach.
Description
A study of the principles, theories, and applications of additive and subtractive color in two dimensions.
Topics will include major historical and contemporary color systems, production of projects in applied color,
and the elements of design as they apply to color.
Content
History of color and the development of the color palette.
Color systems and color organization.
How color is perceived - light, vision, and the brain.
Value, hue, intensity (chroma), and color temperature.
Colors, palettes and materials.
Additive and subtractive color (light and paint).
Color and composition.
Identifying and understanding color mixtures.
Cultural influences on color usage.
Color usage in contemporary art and design.
Color and Technology
Critical evaluation and critique of class projects.
Objectives
Create aesthetically complete designs and images that demonstrate a working knowledge of:
Color systems and color organization,
Principles of color perception - light, vision, and the brain,
Value, hue, intensity (chroma), and color temperature,
Additive and subtractive color (light and paint),
Relationships between color and composition,
Color usage in contemporary art and design;
Make individual aesthetic decisions and judgments related to their own artwork;
Skillfully use a variety of artistic materials, techniques and tools;
Independently produce finished color assignments that demonstrate an understanding of color theory and principles in the history of art;
Comprehend and describe how color is perceived biologically, psychologically, culturally, symbolically and intuitively.

We had an art faculty member (now retired) create a lab manual type resource for her color theory class. It is not a C-ID course,
but it might have something useful: ART 323: Color Theory Course Pack

She also used a library ebook as a supplemental resource. Not OER, but free for students to use: Color, 2nd edition: A workshop
for artists and designers. We were able to purchase an unlimited user license for this ebook for $78.75.

Dance Appreciation

I’m looking for anything for dance appreciation

Hi Sally, looks like this one didn't get much uptake. Have you tried OER Commons?
Here's an example from that repository: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/22157-discover-the-arts-vol-1-intro-visual-art-music-and/5/view

Digital Arts

Does anyone have any recommendations for OER materials for Digital Art?

https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=360

I'm not sure if this quite meets your need, but you could check out: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/digitalfoundations/

Interior Design

I am on the hunt for resources for Interior Design. I reviewed the archives and didn't see anything. Does anyone know Interior Design faculty who are using OER. The department chair is very interested in making her classes no cost and asked for resources for 4 different courses.

AutoDesk offers a TON of resources including full software installations FREE for students, educators and educational institutions.
https://www.autodesk.com/education/home

Film

One of my colleagues is interested in adopting an OER for his intro to Film course. Do any of you have suggestions for him?

Rich Edwards at Ball State produce a MOOC a couple of years ago on Film Noir. It’s at https://www.mooc-list.com/course/tcm-presents-darkness-investigating-film-noir-canvas-net. Not sure if it’s categorized as OER but you could contact him directly to gain ideas.
Film is one of the areas where I haven't found a go-to OER resource to recommend. This is what I recently sent an instructor:
- Chapter 8 of a Saylor textbook on media and culture: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_understanding-media-and-culture-an-introduction-to-mass-communication/
- Search oercommons.org for "film" or a more specific keyword relating to a weekly learning objective, with the education level drop-down menu set to "community college"
- Use a whole book or book chapters from the library's e-book collection, but check with a librarian first to make sure that the e-book license will support this kind of use and potential printing.
She replied that she found a useful resource in OER Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-film-experience-fall-2007/view

I am working with a colleague looking to adopt OER for Film Studies (introductory level) to replace the current textbook, Looking at Movies.
We have identified Exploring Movie Construction & Production, but this resource is geared more towards film making.
We'd love your feedback on other OER Film Studies resources out there.

The Oregon instructors that I know of are using library resources as course materials for film studies courses: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=film

There is an open textbook to cinema underway from University of Arkansas. Elaine Thornton (oer@uark.edu ) may be able to connect you with the author:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/moving-pictures-an-introduction-to-cinema

This is a perennial question! I hope that someone creates an open film studies textbook to fill the gap.

The Oregon instructors that I know of are using library resources as course materials for film studies courses: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=film

I have a faculty member who's trying to find OER about diversity and representation in American Cinema. They are particularly interested in regard to gender and sexuality in American Cinema.
I've suggested Moving Pictures: An Introduction to Cinema (Sharman, 2020) and found a couple other OER through the usual searches. Just thought I'd ask here to see if anyone else has suggestions.

On the bottom of my https://library.fvtc.edu/Open I made a Google search box that includes a lot of OER websites I commonly use. From a search I saw a lot in Merlot.
Example resulting links:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/moving-pictures-an-introduction-to-cinema
II. Representation in Cinema
9. Women in Cinema
10. African Americans in Cinema
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=theater+and+gender&sort.property=relevance (not all OER)
... One of the Merlot results went to
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/music-and-theater-arts/21m-621-theater-and-cultural-diversity-in-the-u-s-spring-2008/

Please see the list of materials one of my film instructor colleagues' is looking to replace. This is for a comparative film genre course taught in the California CC's.

The genre on which my openly-licensed film resource focuses is not on your instructor's list, but perhaps they might consider adding it to their curriculum:
Telling Stories to Save the World: Climate Change in Narrative Film

Graphic Arts

Is anyone using a fabulous Graphic Arts OER? If so, please share with Dan and myself.

Hi Neil, would this one work? https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/digitalfoundations/

Introduction to Art

I have new adjunct professor who is looking for a textbook for her art class and was wondering if anyone can recommend a title/s?. Her class is Introduction to art .If you need more information, I can provide. This is will be her first to use an OER.

I have a couple of faculty who are using and really like this text.
Introduction to Art-082817 ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introduction-to-art-design-context-and-meaning )
One of them couples the above with this text to include elements of equity and inclusion in the course.
Introduction-to-Design-Equity-1547573587 ( https://www.oercommons.org/courses/introduction-to-design-equity-open-textbook/view );

Modern Art

I’m on the hunt for materials for a Modern Art History class (late 19th and 20th century art). From previous listserv conversations I have found these comprehensive texts. Thought I would do another inquiry to see if anything new has come around.

I found this book, which covers the time periods for my Modern Art History course:
Gardner's Art Through the Ages -- however, it's a 2nd edition and was published in 1986: https://archive.org/details/gardnersartthrou02gard/page/n527
While there are more recent editions, they don't cover the time periods that I need to cover in this course. I am also under the impression that if I use Marilyn Stokstad's book (most recent, for example), I can use up to one entire chapter for a reader compilation. Are these correct guidelines for putting together a collection of readings?

Music Appreciation

I have a colleague looking for resources in Music Appreciation. Do you have any recommendations?

There are two OER in use in Oregon that you might want to check out:
Music Appreciation by Ronda Neugebauer, http://cnx.org/contents/fCelrsUo@1.1:fWmMtOTx@8/Rhythm
Understanding Music: Past and Present, https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/arts-textbooks/1/

There is a Music Appreciation course from Central Virginia CC developed by Linda Kobler. You may want to get in touch with her KoblerL@centralvirginia.edu

I am looking for OER in: Music Appreciation

Merlot has a great collection:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=music+appreciation&sort.property=relevance

Here is a collection from our corpus. We have a couple more in different stages of harvesting too.

https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22Music%20Appreciation%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random
and there is overlap in just "music" books:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22Music%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random

Music Fundamentals

I have a faculty member trying to find a music fundamentals text that she's used in the past. I've sent her several that are in pdf form - and she says it was definitely a website.
The text focused on music fundamentals - broke down the basics (not so much music history) and embedded MANY music clips.

Hi Kristin, was it this? http://openmusictheory.com/

Music of the World

I'm working with an instructor who is interested in taking his Music of the World course OER,
and is especially concerned about finding streaming music for students to experience.
He thinks that Naxos is fine for western music, but lacking in non-western music.
We'd be happy for recommendations for OER texts and sources for non-western streaming music!

I don't know if this is exactly what you are looking for, but here is a free app that allows you to connect with radio stations all over the world.
It's called Radio Garden, and it is a spinning globe that allows you to find radio stations and music in a part of the world you are interested in:
http://radio.garden/

I second Amy's suggestion of Radio Garden- you may get news or talk radio but the experience of exploring is worth it.
Slightly related (or not) is Drive and Listen, a web app that lets you pick live streaming radio stations from around the world paired with dash cam video of the locations,
giving an experience of driving in different cities with the radio on
https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/

Music Theory

I’m having trouble finding good OER materials for a Music Appreciation Course. Suggestions?
Try https://courses.lumenlearning.com/musicapp_historical/ and other similar links in the Lumenlearning.com public course catalog
In case you haven't seen these:
http://cnx.org/contents/R21GFBYj@21.2:8gAhyfRY@23/Sound-Reasoning--A-New-Way-to-
http://cnx.org/contents/fCelrsUo@1.1:fWmMtOTx@8/Rhythm
http://opencourselibrary.org/musc-105-music-appreciation/

Open Music Theory is in use at Portland Community College. Some chapters could be appropriate for a music appreciation course.

Music History

I have an instructor of a large course on the history of popular music looking for OER (or even just publicly available) to use in place of a commercial textbook.

This might be helpful - but most likely does not cover the entire course.
A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture
Full Text: https://osu.pb.unizin.org/artandmusicbiographies/

A few weeks ago, I came across this (condensed) book online at the IIP site for the U.S. Dept. of State, https://publications.america.gov/publication/american-popular-music/ . It's a freely available book (not OER and not in the public domain) that's been condensed from its original publication -- but still comes to 100 pages with 12 chapters -- about the history of American popular music. It wouldn't cover the whole course, but might be a viable option for the topic of U.S. popular music?

I forwarded this to our music department chair. Here's his response, FYI:

"This is a condensed version of an older (ten years old) edition of the book we actually require for our course (Starr and Waterman's American Popular Music: From Minstrelsy to MP3 (this is a condensed first or second edition, and we are going to use the 5th edition as soon as it arrives in the next week or so). ... It might be suitable for a high school level course, but even that is doubtful, as it is now quite out of date.

The full book runs to over 500 pages, not including appendices and the index, and instead of the extensive photo galleries in this PDF, there are five to six listening guides in every chapter that walk students through a specific recording of a song. The new 5th edition will have a website that provides streaming audio so that students know that they are listening to the music that the book is actually referring to."

I have a member of our music faculty who is interested in adopting a textbook for their American Roots music course.
The following is a brief synopsis of what he'd like this textbook to cover:
Introduces the historical development and musical characteristics of American roots music from its Anglo-Celtic, Hispanic,
African, and Native American roots to the present, including country music, bluegrass, blues, border music, religious,
and folk music. Discusses folk revivals and the significance of songs as social commentary and protest.
Introduces techniques and terminology of musicological research.
Does anybody happen to know of any OER textbooks that fit these criteria?
Thank you so much in advance for any assistance you can provide!

Western Washington University has a Popular Music that is American centered and may be of use to you.
It is on the LibreTexts and is easily remixable as all OER should be.
https://wwu.commons.libretexts.org/book/human-168890

Photography

Can anyone recommend OER that can assist one of our faculty who is looking for materials that cover:
Camera
The basic controls of your camera and what they do
The categories of cameras, and their characteristics, so you can choose the right one for your purpose
The first steps of getting a camera ready, focusing on an image, and adjusting the camera’s settings
Lens
The focal length of a lens. What is the difference between lenses, the longer the focal length, the larger the subject appears.
That a viewer almost always looks at the sharpest part of a photograph first, and you can control your photograph’s sharpness in several ways
Perspective is the impression of depth in a two-dimensional image; we gauge it by the relative sizes of objects, determined by your lens and its distance from your subject.
Light and exposure
The difference between additive and subtractive color systems, the primary colors of each, and their practical applications
How to use a light meter or a histogram to get a picture that is not too dark or too light
The ways light sources and the time of day can affect the colors in your image

Hi Kevin, an instructor at PCC created a playlist of videos covering these topics: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKuQbU2stJhlmj-2ATCTPHQG7y55jiWUv

Photo Editing Software

Theater

I'm looking for OER connected to a course focused on 20th Century Theatre, and I'm wondering if any one knows of good resources for either modern drama history, or literature resources that cover things like realism, naturalism, absurdism, etc in ways that touch on theatre. This is another professor that would like to use OER to add a more global perspective (yay!) especially adding resources on theatre in Africa and India.
I have found Theatrical Worlds, and I think that will be helpful, but I'd like to see if there is anything else out there, and I'm having trouble finding resources that give background information on recent theatre history.

I don't know if this exactly hits the mark, but Cleveland State has been working on an interactive book: https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/theater/

Does anyone know of users of this Open Source Theatre textbook?
https://opensourcetheatretextbook.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/its-done/

The SUNY system has several faculty using it, including adopters at SUNY Oswego and Buffalo State College. Our faculty draw from the version available through the Open Textbook Network, which includes reviews from faculty nationwide: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/242

Faculty at Linn-Benton Community College also use this book in TA 147: Introduction to Theater. Here's the entry on Open Oregon's resource page. I'm happy to provide further contact information off list.

I recently discovered this OER called Technical Theater Practicum. After sharing it with our Emerging Theatre Technologies program director, he loved it and also inquired about other OERs like this. He is looking for anything regarding stage lighting, video and audio for theatre, concerts, tv and film.
Anyone have any other OERs like this? I've looked a few key places and did not find anything quite like this. I did contact the author of the above OER for more and I did learn there is an update coming soon. Thanks for your help.

Oops, here is a better link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ibRKS2v_qeQwXuZHKAvb2I0jAn7GwCSM

I sent a bunch of examples to my theater dept/MediaX recently and maybe some of them will be useful to you:
· An Introduction to Technical Theatre
· Exploring Movie Construction & Production: What’s so exciting about movies?
· Theatrical Worlds
· Studying Contemporary American Film - A Guide To Movie Analysis
· European Cinema - Face to Face with Hollywood
· The Revolution In Cinematography Post Production And Distribution
· Actors and the Art of Performance
Not technically OER, but free to use:
· The Show Must Go On! American Theater in the Great Depression (DPLA exhibit)
· Project Gutenberg – One Act Plays bookshelf
· Golden Age of Broadway (DPLA exhibit)
· Shakespeare’s Staging
· Fashion Plate Collection

I'm working with Drama faculty who need OER for an Acting Fundamentals course. Our Library provides access to the Digital Theater Plus database, which has helped somewhat, but I'm having trouble finding open content. Does anyone have any suggestions for this?

Thanks everyone for the acting resources! Here's what was mentioned:
Theatre and Film (Libretext)
Improvisation Recipe Book
Theatrical Worlds
Actors and the Art of Performance
Howlround

A faculty member is looking for a ZTC for:
Diversity in American Theatre
History of Theater

While not exactly aligned with the topics, my OER course Theatre Appreciation might be of interest to the faculty member.
I recently added the syllabus and other materials to OERTX/OER Commons here.

Visual Literacy

Does anybody have any resources for visual literacy?
I really like this TED Ed lesson to remind students that visual literacy is both useful in the arts, but also in real-world situations. https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-art-can-help-you-analyze-amy-e-herman

Biology

I have faculty on our campus adopting Open Stax Concepts in Biology -- one got in touch today to ask about more materials than what she has found either at Open Stax faculty resources or in the Open Stax hub on OER Commons. If you know of something great that's in use on your campus, will you send me the name of someone to put her in touch with?

Deb, have her get in touch with Lumen about our faculty resources for Biology. We provide these free to verified faculty. Just have her click on Request Access under Faculty Resources at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-nmbiology1/

One of our faculty is proposing a new Biology course and would like to utilize OER for the class materials. It isn’t a straightforward traditional class, so while I have found some resources, I thought it would be helpful to see what else might be out there that I’m not thinking about. I’ve included the course description below. I think much of her focus is to have students evaluate scientific studies using traditional standards for scientific research but also through the lens of the other factors listed below.
“In this course, undergraduate non-majors explore human health and disease by combining biological principles and scientific methodology. Content emphasizes the interdisciplinary nature of science and how various factors, including socio-economic, behaviors, historic factors, genetics, and infectious organisms may influence health. An overview of preventive practices and available treatments will be presented by reviewing major scientific studies.”

There are a wealth of Biology OER resources - assignments, labs, projects on the searchable Qubes Hub:
https://qubeshub.org/publications/browse
(Anyone can use the qubes hub without joining, but anyone can join qubes and it's free.)
But I would also ask your faculty member to consider having students build open pedagogy projects instead of just looking for OER for the course. Here is some science open pedagogy inspiration from Heather Miceli:
https://sites.google.com/g.rwu.edu/core-101-open-pedagogy-project
Heather's main page: https://sites.google.com/view/hmiceli/about-me?authuser=0

Our Biology faculty have been using the homework support platform for OpenStax Biology that is supported by Cengage. They will no longer provide support for that platform. They are looking for advice and reviews of other platforms to support the Biology sequence.

We have migrated the OpenStax biology questions into our ADAPT platform. You can see the anonymous view of that textbook questions here:
https://adapt.libretexts.org/students/courses/433/assignments/anonymous-user
We haven't converted them to autograded one, but since they are super easy multiple choice questions, that can be done quickly for you if you have a need to use these rapidly. Alternatively, we will address in a few months. What is harder it a proper solution tutorial beyond a simple answer. We have other questions in queue for integration into ADAPT.
If you would like to know more information about ADAPT, we have videos of presentations we gave at the last MiniFest or tag me back and we can chat:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83Q_gTbFatSeDprFrmhVrRYA5QaSCvpG
I would start at 55:00 to avoid the greater discussion about LibreVerse organization, motivation and general philosophy of how LibreTexts operates.

I’m working with my biology faculty on an OER lab manual for our Principles of Biology course.
While they are making great strides on the bulk of the work, they did have a couple of requests:
They’re looking for diagrams and photos to add to the text as a way to show examples.
Yes, they are taking photos of things this semester and adding them to the work, but it would also be nice to have a repository as a back-up.
Beyond WikiCommons, are there any other suggestions out there? (By the way, my colleague is adding their photos to WC, too,
so that others can use them.)
They’re also looking to include some vocabulary-building games to the lab manual, such as word searches and crossword puzzles.
The crossword builder in H5P is not accessible, so that one is out.
Does anyone know of other open-source or OER tools that are accessible?

There is a list of science image sources on the ASCCC OERI site (scroll towards the bottom) https://asccc-oeri.org/image-sources/

In addition to the sources Suzanne shared, the Biodiversity library has a lot of great content.
We’ve used their images a lot. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/

Happy Friday! OpenStax offers an online library of free, openly licensed, peer-reviewed biology textbooks.
OpenStax's biology textbooks — including Biology 2e and Concepts of Biology (for non-majors) —
offer a plethora of high-quality images and diagrams your biology faculty can incorporate into their course materials.
Because OpenStax's biology textbooks are available under an open license, your instructors can simply copy and paste the images
and diagrams into their course materials - all they need to do is attribute OpenStax.

Anatomy & Physiology

Looking for open resources in anatomy and physiology lecture and lab materials.

We have found the OpenStax for A & P.
The Lumen resources are based primarily on the OS books with additional resources (like videos and self-checks) included throughout. You might also check the Noted Anatomist YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe9lb3da4XAnN7v3ciTyquQ/videos . My understanding is that these will be openly licensed soon.

This one is from down under…Human Physiology: https://library.latrobe.edu.au/ebureau/ebook.html#howtodoscience The permission is pretty strict, but still…

I'm writing on behalf of an Anatomy & Physiology instructor who is considering switching to OER but concerned about access to high-quality images. She would also be interested in connecting with other instructors doing similar work. So far we are aware of:
- OpenStax textbook and its instructor guide
- Anatomy Zone: http://anatomyzone.com/
- Mt Hood lab/homework: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/anatomy-physiology-lab-homework-and-reference-materials
Any other recommendations would be appreciated!

Amy - have her look at the content on KnowledgetoWork.com which LFCC created with a DOL TAACT grant. Free to register and save items; lots of resources that are free & open.

Thank you for sharing Anatomy Zone – that’s much better than anything I’ve been able to find for our folks.

If she’s looking for specific images (rather than a full ready-to-go set) and is willing to spend the time, the links below have some great options.
https://openi.nlm.nih.gov
This is pictures from research papers. So, a lot of them are too detailed – but with good keyword use, there are some truly amazing pictures.
For example: https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/gridquery.php?q=heart%203D&it=xg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
I’ve actually found lots of great images here for my biology classes. Not fancy, but my favorite site.
https://search.nih.gov
This has more basic pictures that are meant for the general public. Search and then select “images” under “more”
https://www.usa.gov/
Also a good image search

The instructor that contacted me has decided to work with the Oregon State University adaptation of the OpenStax A&P book (currently under revision at: http://library.open.oregonstate.edu/aandp/ ).
I got a TON of other suggestions, which I've listed below. Many thanks to everyone who replied!
KnowledgetoWork.com
- Human anatomy, including structure and development and practical considerations by https://archive.org/details/humananatomyincl02pier
- PHIL (Public Health Image Library): https://phil.cdc.gov/default.aspx
- Figshare has collections of illustrations. Try a search for “anatomy illustrations?” https://figshare.com/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Wellcome Collection: https://wellcomecollection.org/works?wellcomeImagesUrl=/
- Antique Anatomy: http://www.antiqueanatomy.com/galleries/ (these are PD images, so they may be too old to be useful)
- https://openi.nlm.nih.gov This is pictures from research papers. So, a lot of them are too detailed – but with good keyword use, there are some truly amazing pictures. For example: https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/gridquery.php?q=heart%203D&it=xg
- https://search.nih.gov This has more basic pictures that are meant for the general public. Search and then select “images” under “more”
- http://www.innerbody.com/image/digeov.html Interactive diagrams and text about human anatomy. Navigate by clicking on either table of contents or diagrams. Some diagrams are available in 3D with the ability to zoom and rotate.
- http://virtuallabs.stanford.edu/demo/index.html Interactive textbook on anatomy and neuroanatomy. Requires Shockwave plugin, so doesn’t work in Google Chrome. Traditionally copyrighted—you can send your students to look at it but can’t make your own copy.
- http://www.getbodysmart.com/ Another interactive textbook. Easier to navigate but not as comprehensive as the previous one. Includes quizzes.
- https://openstax.org/details/anatomy-and-physiology An open anatomy textbook. Available online for free or as a print-on-demand. Instructor supplements available if you create a login. (As a side note, OpenStax books are usually very high quality!)
- https://courses.candelalearning.com/ap2xmaster/ and https://courses.candelalearning.com/ap2x2master/ A set of two open textbooks on anatomy and physiology. The first one includes self-check questions and quizzes. Comes with instructor resources if you contact Lumen Learning to verify that you are an instructor.
- https://www.boundless.com/physiology/ An open anatomy and physiology textbook in HTML format. Very easy to navigate.
- https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/webui/guest/join.do?section=anatomy Interactive Anatomy & Physiology open textbook. Clearly states learning objectives, has embedded self-quizzes, and saves student progress with a free login.
- http://www.bruceforciea.com/etextchapters/etexthumananatrevmay12.pdf Open textbook in PDF format. Not as interactive as some of the others, but has nice diagrams.
- http://www.anatomyatlases.org/ Open encyclopedias and atlases of anatomy. Most have detailed diagrams.
- http://jdc.jefferson.edu/vghd/ A very extensive set of videos of a human corpse dissection. Not streaming videos; they have to be downloaded (in .mov format).
- http://www.anatomyzone.com/ Set of videos of 3D models with narration. Requires a free login.
- http://www.anatomyarcade.com/ Anatomy review games
- http://msjensen.cbs.umn.edu/webanatomy/ Blank and labeled diagrams of molecules, bones, cells, blood vessels, the digestive system, the endocrine system, the immune system, and more
- http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anatomy/HAE/index.html Photographs and self-quizzes for human anatomy, cells/tissues/organs, and neuroanatomy
- https://homes.bio.psu.edu/faculty/strauss/anatomy/biology29.htm Self-quizzes with unlabeled diagrams.
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/ Games and exercises
- https://legacy.saylor.org/bio302l/Intro/ This open anatomy course uses entirely OERs.
- http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/APlab/Table-of-Contents.html Just diagrams. Straightforward to use, but not the most attractive web design.
- http://daphne.palomar.edu/ccarpenter/Models/model%20index.htm Labeled photographs of a plastic human anatomy model. Again, not the prettiest web design.
- http://www.le.ac.uk/pa/teach/va/anatomy/frmst.html Diagrams with explanatory text. More terrible web design.
- http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/books/4/ Open textbook on human osteology.
- http://eskeletons.org/boneviewer/nid/12537/region/skull/bone/cranium Light-up diagram of a human male skeleton. Site also has skeletons of other primates for comparison.
- http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/index.html Extremely in-depth coverage on the human eye.
- http://www.gwc.maricopa.edu/class/bio201/brain/BrainModelMap.htm Side-by-side comparison of a brain scan and a brain model. Requires Javascript.
- http://www.nvcc.edu/home/rkeith/LabelingExercises/Brain/index.html Several pages of brain scan labeling exercises
- http://www.amareway.org/holisticliving/02/neuroanatomy-tutorial-brain-anatomy-atlas/ Neuroanatomy diagrams
- https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/career-clusters/health-science/ota1004/anatomy-of-the-lungs Interactive diagrams of the respiratory system
- https://www1.columbia.edu/sec/itc/hs/medical/anatomy_resources/anatomy/larynx/ Detailed interactive diagram of the larynx

I am putting this out there hoping someone might know the answer to this question. We have a Anatomy and Physiology Lab instructor who is looking for materials for an OER textbook that she wants to create. We are helping her search for 2 labs:
1. Fetal Pig Dissection lab instructions
2. Fetal Pig Heart Dissection lab instruction
We've looked at Galileo and Lumen Learning. Does anyone know of any other resources?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/40964293@N07/sets/72157680170839174
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0192900

I have a faculty member in dire need of resources for her Anatomy and Physiology course as the bookstore has a backlog on the required text, can anyone assist?

Here's what we have in MERLOT. Lots of textbooks.
https://tinyurl.com/y9qngysq

The easiest solution is A&P by OpenStax. There are supplemental resources and even more in OERCommons.

We have some anatomy materials in the UND Scholarly Commons at https://commons.und.edu under Open Educational Resources.

We have used the OpenStax A&P book for both our Intro to A&P (BIOL105) and our A&P1 and A&P2 series but we modified each chapter to fit the lower level (The OpenStax book is higher than 100 or 200 level). I have each chapter in a Word document, modified to fit our goals and objectives. If you want them, I'd be glad to share the files with you and you can edit anyway you want. I have embedded a few things - links to videos and quizlets I created about each topic.

Libretexts has the OpenStax and Boundless books as well as books on animal anatomy and other supplementary materials
https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anatomy_and_Physiology

Josh Halpern
Dissemination Team Chair
LibreTexts
jhalpern@libretexts.org

I have an Anatomy & Physiology Instructor looking for interactive/adaptive resources that replicate the experience of Connect, from McGraw-Hill.
He said “the abundance of opportunities to provide practice, repetition, and immediate feedback is something I haven't yet seen from an OER resource yet”.

I know that at last year’s Effordability Summit at Stout there was a faculty member out of Minnesota who had designed an A&P lab for OER.
His name is Rahul Kane from Century College and his talk was called “Creating and Teaching a Completely Online Two Semester Lab Course in Anatomy and Physiology.”
Bob Butterfield may know more, but I would think you could get in touch with Dr. Kane directly via the campus website.

believe the faculty member was using LRNR ( https://www.lrnr.us/   )
A faculty member at UND, Dr. Ethan Snow, has designed an Anatomy Lab Manual for 2nd year anatomy courses. It’s at https://commons.und.edu/oers/8/ . He’s been using it for at least 2 years. I honestly don’t know anything specific about it – I haven’t worked in medical libraries in many years, and have never taken an anatomy course – but Dr. Snow is very approachable.

One request which I haven’t had any luck finding are separate anatomy and physiology OER. I have discussed with the instructor the beauty of OER is the ability to separate and re-create as you want but he wants me to check and see what’s already out there. Anyone have any such resources?

See the Anatomy section of our OER by Discipline Guide for resources.

I tried to indicate where appropriate that materials would need to be reviewed as far as using it under the Fair Use act. I have removed any options that may be questionable for content and below are the remaining items that are either under CC or are Open Access and for educational use.

http://virtualmicroscopydatabase.org/

http://www.anatomie-amsterdam.nl/sub_sites/anatomie-zenuwwerking/123_neuro/start.htm

https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/bluelink/curricula?authuser=0

https://anatomytool.org/TOOL2

http://anatomyzone.com/ -- free but not open licensure – look at every item individually

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzco_RimSMKvH7sg7TWoGw/playlists - Complete YouTube playlist for A & P all under Creative Commons

https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology -- This is a book option where you can request access for instructors where the instructor will be vetted to gain access to the resources including PPTs and a question bank. Students will also have separate resources.

Textbooks:
http://www.textbookequity.org/category/anatomy-physiology/
https://openstax.org/details/anatomy-and-physiology

lab materials for assignments:
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/anatomy-physiology-lab-homework-and-reference-materials/view
https://act.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/index.htm
http://anatomycorner.com/

One of our tenacious faculty here at Skyline College has been revising and remixing an OER Human Anatomy lab manual that just came through my in box this week (it will be shared via the VRC shortly). Of note, Human Physiology lab manual is undergoing final edits & will be available for sharing soon.

Does anyone have the OpenStax Review questions for the Anatomy and Physiology text in a Canvas or Blackboard format?

Here are some ancillaries that an Oregon instructor created to go with this book:
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/anatomy-physiology-lab-homework-and-reference-materials
There is content related to this textbook in OER Commons via the OpenStax hub:
https://www.oercommons.org/groups/openstax-anatomy-and-physiology/1054/?__hub_id=27

We have been building a centralized repo of OpenStax and other questions sources in our ADAPT homework system ( https://adapt.libretexts.org ).
I think we have converted many/most of the A&P into H5P problems on our LibreStudio ( https://studio.libretexts.org )
although I need to review to see if they are brought together as a collection yet. Both are viewable to instructors
(ADAPT needs a freely available account and studio doesn't).
We will expanded ADAPT to include QTI, the protocol for questions in (most) LMSs so we can add to our repo too.

I am making an inquiry for our Math & Natural Sciences department.
They are interested to know what OER complete free or low-cost. textbooks are available for Human Anatomy & Physiology I & II

here's what I know of that's being used in Oregon:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Anatomy
You'll see that most courses have adopted the OpenStax book or the OSU version of the OpenStax book.
There are also a couple of course shells and other ancillaries that may be useful to you here.

You will find a collection of integrated and standardized Anatomy and Physiology texts/labs/materials on our LibreTexts Commons.
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=anatomy
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=Physiology
Several texts are remixes of OpenStax but several projects (look under projects tab)
involve updating the images and structure of the OpenStax books to use more realistic pics
(an issue that we have heard a lot from the community); let me know if you want us to guide you toward those resources.
Lastly, we have been building the homework to accompany these texts over the past year within the ADAPT homework platform.
We intend to release this summer, a virtual dissection addition to ADAPT to better handle the 3D aspects of the field. For a teaser check out
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x1we0o72c1d88ri/Anatomy%203D%20-%20update.mp4 .

Biological Psychology

An instructor at MPC is interested in finding OER for Biological Psychology. Any idea?

You might direct your instructor to check out the content at NobaProject.com which is an openly licensed repository of peer reviewed psychology modules.
They have a series of modules on the "Biology of Behavior”
https://nobaproject.com/browse-content

Here is a bio psych textbook one of our instructors created using Noba materials: http://noba.to/wskn26zh

I was wondering if anyone is using an OER textbook for Biological Psychology.

Here is our list of biological pysch texts:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Psychology/Biological_Psychology
The first one labeled OERI (from the Academic Senate of the California Community College system) is probably the most expansive for general Biological Psychology.
If you need adoptors, I can try to dig them up for you.

One of the ROTEL Project's OERs is in fact an OER on Biological Psychology.
https://rotel.pressbooks.pub/biologicalpsychology/
written by Michael J. Hove and Steven A. Martinez.
Prof. Hove is in the process of a revision that is expected to be released before September 2024.
Here is the complete ROTEL Project Pressbooks Catalog. Hope this helps.

That version is not the preferred version - we need to work with LibreTexts to see how to remedy that as it is still marked "draft" for a reason.
One of its authors did an extensive revision and we the OERI now recommends
PSYC 310: Biological Psychology (Keys).
The original has a few chapters that are too long - and a few that are too short.

OpenStax's free OER psychology textbook has an excellent chapter on biopsychology:
https://openstax.org/books/psychology-2e/pages/3-introduction .

Botany

Just wondering if anyone has any leads on OER for botany. Other than a lot of PD books on Project Gutenberg I can't seem to turn anything up.

We start building in this area a few months ago, but a lot more is needed:
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany

We have an instructor that is building a Botony course from scratch because we have never had/taught one of these here.
And we are in need of Botony resources, textbooks, online learning tools, videos,

Two great botany resources I'm familiar with are Michelle Nakano's Plant Identification text: https://kpu.pressbooks.pub/plantidentification/
and Sean Bellair's Plant Anatomy & Physiology text: https://cduebooks.pressbooks.pub/plantanatomy/ .
Both have been published with open licenses that grant free permissions to remix, revise, and redistribute with appropriate attribution.
UA Cossatot has an excellent finding guide for Botany OER resources with several more links: https://libguides.cccua.edu/c.php?g=793104&p=5710965
OER Commons has a primary botany collection with some nice resources/activities: https://www.oercommons.org/curated-collections/631
LibreTexts has a botany library as well: https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany

We have about seven OER resources on the LibreTexts bio library:
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany
All the content on the platform is easily remixable to rapidly generate a new customized text. As also have several more that we are harvesting right now that may also be useful.

I hope this message finds you all well. Can you all help me locate an OER textbook for the following courses:
BIOL-1311 - General Botany
BIOL-1313 - General Zoology

You will find some nice texts in our corpus for botany (and with pretty pics)
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Botany
We have our zoology content interspersed inside the biology books although we should separate the field when we get time:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=biology

I found this site from Northern Illinois University that has sections on both botany and zoology.

Cancer Biology

I have been working with a biology faculty member to locate an OER textbook for a Biology of Cancer course. (BIOL 108)
Per the description:
This course aims to give students a basic and big picture understanding about cancer. Topics include the genetic basis, hallmark characteristics, causes and avenues of prevention, and treatments of cancer. It is the hope that students who take this class will be better equipped to educate others on how to prevent cancer and distinguish science from myth regarding the disease.
We've been looking at some unlimited ebook options that I can purchase from EBSCO and ProQuest and supplementing with articles from our databases but curious if anyone has created an OER for this topic/course.

There is an open textbook on Head and Neck Cancers in the works from UMass Medical School. I was told last spring that it was not yet completed -- though some of it is already publicly shared: https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cancer_concepts/29/
I would suggest contacting the authors to see where they are with this. Might be too specialized. Then again, you might find some fantastic opportunities for collaboration!

We have a community college course called BIOL 108 Biology of Cancer and we are seeking an OER textbook for it. So far I have shared some resources but they haven't quite hit the spot. We have been using an unlimited copy of an ebook via the library but it is dated 2010 and we need something newer.
All suggestions welcome.
OER Resources
(Book) Introduction to Cancer Biology, last updated May 2019 (Bookboon)
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=442504
(Presentation)-5 activies Cell Biology and Cancer, last updated Sept. 2018 (Natl Inst. of General Medical Sci)
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=81098
(Animations) Cancer Biology Animations and Videos, last updated Aug 2017 (Emory Univ)
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=776088

We don't have a specific OER book on Cancer, but a search on our bio library have about 715 hits for cancer topics:
https://bio.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=cancer&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
There is a chapter on Cancer too in Kimball's book of 14 sections, but it may not be super current:
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_General_Biology/Book%3A_Biology_(Kimball)/12%3A_Cancer
Everything is easily remixable as OER should be.

I forgot about 550 pages (some repeats) in our medicine library:
https://med.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=cancer&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves

Dual Language Biology

I have a faculty member who is teaching a dual-language biology class. His interest is in lowering barriers,
like language, that prevent Hispanic/Latinx students from pursuing STEM majors.
He is looking for bilingual (preferred) or Spanish language OER Biology materials - either for non-majors or majors students.
Currently he is using the OpenStax Biology OER and has been working on translations of materials himself.
Does anyone know of any bilingual or Spanish language OER Biology materials? I've found a few in OER Commons but haven't had much luck elsewhere.

A faculty member recently pointed me to a repository of OER in Spanish:

https://es.serlo.org/community/199370/lista-de-repositorios-motores-de-b%C3%BAsqueda-y-sitios-web-con-licencias-rea
I don't have the language skills to explore this, but it might be a starting point for you.

Ecology

I am putting together a list of potential open textbook options for a community college ecology course. Here is the course description:
An introduction to the interactions between living organisms and their physical, chemical and biological environment. Several levels of ecological organization are examined. These include the study of different types of populations, communities and ecosystems. Topics include population structure and growth, species interaction, energy flow, nutrient cycling, succession, and applications to current environmental management issues.
So far I’ve found some potentially useful, remixable resources, but no single open textbook that touches on most of these topics. These include:
· OpenStax: Biology, Unit 8 (“Ecology”)
· MIT OpenCourseWare courses: Fundamentals of Ecology and Ecology I (lecture notes, assessments
· Wikibooks: Applied Ecology
· Boundless: Biology, chs. 44-47

Below is a list I put together for our “Sustaining Life on Earth” course. This class does cover ecology and is taught by the Biology Department, but it leans a bit more towards the political than a traditional ecology course.
The following texts can all be modified, remixed, and combined:
https://openstax.org/subjects/science
you could pull ecology from both the Bio book (majors level) and Concepts (non-majors)
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=96
http://cnx.org/contents/ApdCwdkA@2.1:_8y0huiT@3/FLOW-OF-ENERGY
These are part of the OpenStax platform so it should be easy to build in with what you find above
http://www.ck12.org/teacher/
This is actually for K-12 but the HS content is very good. I use this in my GE classes and the students really like them. In addition to the textbook there are activities, videos, etc.
Example of a text: http://www.ck12.org/user:bwvzdgfibguzn2vkdubnbwfpbc5jb20./book/Introduction-to-Environmental-Science/
https://legacy.saylor.org/envs504/Intro/
This focuses more on society rather than science, but there may be some interesting things here.
The following are free but not Open (meaning you have to use their site)
http://www.visionlearning.com/en/library
I don’t know much about this site, but it seems to have some good content. I can find out more if you like what’s here
https://www.mongabay.com/conservation-biology-for-all.html
I’m not sure if this is adaptable or not (it might be)
Random bits:
https://osu.pb.unizin.org/sciencebites/
This is written by students; but it might have some interesting idea
https://www.nap.edu/index.html
these are mostly highly specialized but there are some great reads here! They all have free PDFs online (but they have to be used as is).
Sample: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/10025/under-the-weather-climate-ecosystems-and-infectious-disease
And: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/4983/environmental-issues-in-pacific-northwest-forest-management#toc
http://www.intechopen.com/search?q=sustainability
these may be too complicated for students; but fun summer reads for you :)

I just received a phone call from an instructor (and the department head for Plant Science) who is looking for OER on forest ecology. A colleague of his teaching statistics in that department told him about OER and he wants in on this. Does anyone have anything on forest ecology?

So the two areas that the prof might want to check out are chapters from:
British Columbia in a Global Context
and
Physical Geology
…oh one more! Open Oregon’s
Forest Measurements: An Applied Approach

A professor is interested in finding an OER text/course for a General Ecology undergraduate course that also supports field work, if possible. A prerequisite of the course is biology. Any leads on existing resources or projects in the works will be greatly appreciated.

We have put together a list of Biology Resources for undergraduate level here: https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/3432/pages/introduction-to-oer-for-biology
The resources are divided by class type. There is “Ecology” under the GE level; but the instructor may also want to look at the Ecology for majors further down the page.

A professor wants to put together a textbook for a microbial ecology course and we're having trouble finding enough
existing OER resources to pull from.
Any suggestions, leads or recommendations will be appreciated.

This might be helpful:
LibreTexts Microbial Ecology

Genetics

I’m helping a professor locate OER for a genetics course. She’s worked with a reference librarian and has found some material; however, most of it is below the academic level of her course.

I've found that InTechOpen has some higher level scientific books, though they are often more focused than a traditional textbook - https://www.intechopen.com/books . I have a professor reviewing some texts for her Biochemistry class but none in genetics as of yet. Though I did a quick keyword search and there are titles in the collection!

I have a faculty member looking for open content for an upper-division Human Heredity course that includes basic genetics, basic DNA cell usage, and human-specific sex development, mutations and genetic disorders.
She has already looked at: OpenStax, OTL, OER Commons, and NCBI Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man.

Delmar from LibreText had two suggestions:
- We (the LibreTexts) have a genetics text in the works, but Nickle & Barrette-Ng's text may work:
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Genetics/Book%3A_Online_Open_Genetics_(Nickle_and_Barrette-Ng)
- Hardison's text (but has holes in the integration from the source):
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Genetics/Book%3A_Working_with_Molecular_Genetics_(Hardison)
Here is the syllabus that the faculty member created after I asked this question: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=441

Try https://www.ibiology.org/ for up to date info on Genetics and Cell Biology

Gerontology

I have a Psychology professor who is looking for OER material for an upper level course on Gerontology. Preference would be for something like a traditional textbook, but any and all suggestions would be appreciated!

A colleague in Gerontology uses our library subscriptions through Springer Publishing eBooks. She recommends checking with the library to see what they have available.

Horticulture

Looking for an open text for an introductory Horticulture course. "...a general background in horticulture plant growth and development. Areas include the production, utilization, and marketing of fruits, vegetables, ornamentals, floriculture, landscaping, turf, and nursery."

A search of MERLOT yielded:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=horticulture&sort.property=relevance&_csrf=b198d01d-3570-42af-9399-4c61986359c5

Human Biology

Hi all, I have an instructor looking for Human Biology. I’ve shown her these:
Free Anatomy Videos
Anatomy & Physiology Lab Homework and Reference Materials
Does anyone know of anything else?

We have an Anatomy manual in our OER section of our institutional repository, at https://commons.und.edu/oers/ - just go down to the Anatomy Lab Manual.

Butte College just finished their Human Bio text (probably same C-ID #) on the LibreTexts (Bio library):
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Human_Biology/Book%3A_Human_Biology_(Wakim_and_Grewal)
This is remixable like all other content on our library if it doesn't 100% fit your purposes.

Here are a few more resources for Human Biology curated by a CA Academic Senate project: https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/3432/pages/human-biology

Lab Books

Can anyone let me know if there is a biology lab book online that is part of open access?
Open Oregon's grantees have made some biology resources, including lab packets. The content is in OER Commons: https://www.oercommons.org/groups/openoregon/425/?&f.search=biology
I’m forwarding a message from Suzanne Wakim, Biology Instructor, OER Coordinator, and much more at Butte College, CA.

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I haven’t used any of these, so I don’t know much about them. But, some options that looked good after a quick glance through:
These look like a traditional lab manual for f2f labs for a GE Introduction to Biology Course.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/biolabs1/
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/bio2labs/
These also look like a good lab manual for f2f. But, they are pdfs so adaptation might be more challenging
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/principles-of-biology-i-lab-manual/view
Another lab manual:
https://bluecc.instructure.com/courses/446
Our Biology department has an amazing collection of images.

Here is the link and description:

Link to the BCC Bioscience Image Library: www.berkshirecc.edu/biologyimages

The BCC Bioscience Image Library is a media file repository of images and video clips made available to educators and students in the biological sciences. The resources are created by faculty, staff and students of Berkshire Community College and are licensed under Creative Commons 0. This means all content is free, with no restrictions on how the material may be used, reused, adapted or modified for any purposes, without restriction under copyright or database law.

About the Images

The Biology Image Library is a growing collection of over 700 text supported microscopic and macroscopic images and videos drawn from commercially prepared slide collections and live specimens commonly used in the study of Biology, Botany, Zoology, Histology and Microbiology.

Following the procedure of the teaching laboratory, each microscopic specimen is studied at a range of magnifications. This allows an initial low magnification observation of the overall arrangement of organs and tissues. Higher levels of magnification allow increasingly more specific examination of tissues, cells and cell structure. Whenever relevant or applicable different staining techniques and developmental stages may be demonstrated.

These seem to be more for a microbiology or majors course:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/0z5a8s16ar8fej1/BI102%20Lab%20Packet%20OER%20ADA.docx?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ypjev7afysyb8xr/BI101%20Course%20Packet%20-%20Edit%20for%20OER.docx?dl=0

This is a list of some neat virtual labs. Probably not what they’re looking for but interesting nonetheless.
http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/virtuallabs/biology/index.html

My intro Bio and Chem instructors are interested in OER. It’s been fairly easy to locate textbooks and some lab manuals for them to review. However, they are also interested in a hybrid or online version of the course and were wondering if there were open licensed online lab simulations in these areas? A Google search brings up lots of results but I’m unsure which are complete, high quality content, so any feedback on what your faculty are using (OER, low cost, or traditional access model) would be appreciated.

HI Jessica, here are biology lab manuals created in Oregon:

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/biology-101-103-lab-manual
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zvshk86sg8sf69u/Bi%20101%20OER%20Syllabus%20and%20LabPack%20Harrer.pdf?dl=0
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9VJwxDxvK5mb3c2eU1PdjRvOW8
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/biology-102a-lab-packet
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/anatomy-physiology-lab-homework-and-reference-materials

FYI. The LibreTexts has the largest collection of Living Labs (i.e., OER content you can edit) out there including both wet and dry labs
https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Laboratory_Experiments
https://bio.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Laboratory_Experiments

Our labs are wired up to take advantage of the other content on the library, which is a guiding principle of our effort - integration not fragmentation of OER content. Let me know if you want to know more about our growing collection of Labs. We have been active in this area over the summer and can guide effort along your interests.

Don’t know if you got this (it was on the listserve Saturday), but I forwarded the following to our Bio faculty member that is working on our Bio for non-majors OER lab course. Looking at what Suzanne posted, drill a bit deeper - there are some OER bio lab manuals, videos and simulations that you might find interesting. It lists a few colleges who I gather have contributed to the lab course materials.
Direct link - https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/3432/pages/intro-to-biology-with-lab
Original link shared - Biology Resources for undergraduate level: https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/3432/pages/introduction-to-oer-for-biology
If you use this original link, they are under the intro to bio with lab sublink under general ed.

A faculty member here is looking at options for an Introductory Biology Lab manual (Non-majors or Majors is fine). He is currently testing out the Lumen course integration and he seems to like it, and so I linked him to the PDF version of the lab manual.
I also sent him these:
GALILEO Principles of Biology 1 Manual
CUNY’s Biology 1 Lab manual
Georgia Highlands Foundations of Biology Lab Manual
Biology 101A Packet from Open Oregon
Are there any others that I might have missed that someone could direct me to?

There are a few lab manuals specific for GE listed on the ASCCC OERI Canvas Page. You can also look for more specific lab manuals for other biology course types.

There are a few more resources listed on the site from California’s OERI.
We are also working to develop some resources for specific bio majors courses. So they may want to check back in a few months for new resources. We are also building a community of biologists who teach with OER, so they are welcome to reach out to me directly with questions or suggestions.

I am looking for OER resources for some type of online Biology labs.

Here you go
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Mv0EyCw2QeFIpW5P5qNR5EWdcM4pPpLPRnBDHMfaxgQ/edit?usp=sharing

Great resources! You will find some of the same and possibly a few more for online science labs on our Moving Science Labs Online web page, under the Open Educational Resources section.

I'm in search of online Biology Labs.
We have been searching for some interactive lab option that is realistic when it comes to dissection.

https://opentextbc.ca/virtualscienceresources/

We have harvested about 400 pages of OER labs for biology in the Learning Objects section of our Bio library:
https://bio.libretexts.org/Learning_Objects/Laboratory_Experiments
They very in terms of format and structure, but may be useful for you. They are all easily remixable as OER should be.

I have a biology faculty member who uses the OpenStax biology book and he has a home grown lab manual that is provided electronically to students for free.
He's tried allowing students to use the manual on their phones or laptops but that hasn't worked out that well.
He thinks it's best if the students either print out the manual or use a tablet to fill in the lab manual during lab time.
Both options require that the college take on the costs of printing and purchasing and refreshing tablets.
Does anyone have another creative solution for how we can provide lab manuals for students that is more sustainable?

There's a list of freely-available electronic lab notebook platforms on the bottom RH side of this page under "electronic lab notebooks":
https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/labs

Livestock

A faculty member would like to find an OER alternative to this textbook:
https://www.amazon.com/Veterinary-Medicine-textbook-diseases-two-dp-0702052469/dp/0702052469/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1634254895

Please take a look at this collection of OA and OER VetMed resources:
https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/vetmed

At the University of Arizona, we’ve been working on a Z-Degree with our new College of Veterinary Medicine. So far, we’ve been relying on unlimited-user ebooks rather than OER to do this. I can share our spreadsheets of available unlimited-user ebooks if you’re interested (some are newly available within the past few weeks).

The amount of Vet Med OER is growing. Our liaison librarian keeps a list in her Vet Med LibGuide (she used other LibGuides – especially Anita Walz’s at Virginia Tech – to populate this).

Marine Biology

An instructor is developing a new lower-division marine biology course and would like help finding an OER if it might be available.
I searched the Open Textbook Library, OERCommons, and BC Campus. I've found these possible resources:
- Saylor course: https://legacy.saylor.org/bio308/Intro/
- UC TV videos on Oceanography, Marine Science, Marine Bioscience: https://www.uctv.tv/search-moreresults.aspx?catSubID=39&subject=sci
- Cases from National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/results.asp?search=&subject_headings=Marine+Science+%2F+Oceanography&educational_level=&type_methods=&topical_areas=&date_posted2=&x=39&y=20
Any other suggestions?
You might find this very nice set of 3D scans useful. They aren't OER per se, but they are freely available.
Most of my stuff is still behind OSU’s firewall . . .so far a consequence of our developing online courses for which we charge money. Possibly our 3D scans will be of interest? Those are open access.
https://sketchfab.com/osuecampus/collections/fw-scan-project
I realize this is an old thread, but I'm hoping someone out there has some leads on an Oceanography or Marine Biology textbook.
Instructor has already rejected what is available in Pressbooks Directory and at this time they are not willing to remix.
Looking for something ready to go to replace Marine Biology by Castro and Huber, McGraw Hill, 11th edition, $141.

We have resources in our repo that are not in the Pressbooks directory. These are some oceanography resources:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=oceanography&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&sort=title
But, we have some resources to Marine Biology, but I am not up to speed on them.
I can dig them up next week if you are interested.

Thanks for the offer! I poked around a bit and I didn't find anything in LibreCommons for Marine Biology.
I then went to the Biology Library on LibreTexts and I found 2 items that could possibly be suitable:
Chapter on Aquatic Microbiology
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Book%3A_Microbiology_(Boundless)/16%3A_Microbial_Ecology/16.3%3A_Aquatic_Microbiology
A student's guide to Tropical Marine Biology
https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/A_Student's_Guide_to_Tropical_Marine_Biology
It's totally possible that I am new to searching your platforms that I am still learning how to search effectively.

It's nice to see "A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology" on the libretexts platform.
I just wish that the front matter/info page there actually included the front matter information on the pressbook which credits the authors.
This book was written and edited entirely by undergraduate students (and recent alum) at Keene State College.
Anyone interested can read the book (including the introduction and author credits) on pressbooks here:
https://tropicalmarinebio.pressbooks.com/front-matter/introduction/
You can also read the story of its origin on my site here:
https://karencang.net/open-education/an-open-pedagogy-groundswell/
The book was never intended to be complete or perfect, but a work in progress.
It is a great accomplishment by students across semesters and an example of what open pedagogy can bring to learning.
I hope that whoever is interested in finding Marine biology OER, would perhaps instead consider creating more of it with their students.
I have updated the front matter and attributions to link to the front matter for your student authors on the LibreTexts version of your book
so that each page has a link to the "About the Authors" pages. Thanks for pointing this out; we strive to as honest and accurate in the commons content we host for the community.I realize this is an old thread, but I'm hoping someone out there has some leads on an Oceanography or Marine Biology textbook. Instructor has already rejected what is available in Pressbooks Directory and at this time they are not willing to remix. Looking for something ready to go to replace Marine Biology by Castro and Huber, McGraw Hill, 11th edition, $141.

We have resources in our repo that are not in the Pressbooks directory. These are some oceanography resources:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=oceanography&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&sort=title
But, we have some resources to Marine Biology, but I am not up to speed on them. I can dig them up next week if you are interested.

Thanks for the offer! I poked around a bit and I didn't find anything in LibreCommons for Marine Biology. I then went to the Biology Library on LibreTexts and I found 2 items that could possibly be suitable:
Chapter on Aquatic Microbiology https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Book%3A_Microbiology_(Boundless)/16%3A_Microbial_Ecology/16.3%3A_Aquatic_Microbiology
A student's guide to Tropical Marine Biology https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/Diablo_Valley_College/A_Student's_Guide_to_Tropical_Marine_Biology
It's totally possible that I am new to searching your platforms that I am still learning how to search effectively.

It's nice to see "A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology" on the libretexts platform.
I just wish that the front matter/info page there actually included the front matter information on the pressbook which credits the authors.
This book was written and edited entirely by undergraduate students (and recent alum) at Keene State College.
Anyone interested can read the book (including the introduction and author credits) on pressbooks here:
https://tropicalmarinebio.pressbooks.com/front-matter/introduction/
You can also read the story of its origin on my site here: https://karencang.net/open-education/an-open-pedagogy-groundswell/
The book was never intended to be complete or perfect, but a work in progress.

It is a great accomplishment by students across semesters and an example of what open pedagogy can bring to learning.
I hope that whoever is interested in finding Marine biology OER, would perhaps instead consider creating more of it with their students.
I have updated the front matter and attributions to link to the front matter for your student authors on the LibreTexts version of your book so that each page has a link to the "About the Authors" pages. Thanks for pointing this out; we strive to as honest and accurate in the commons content we host for the community.

Medical Terminology and Medical Images

There is a faculty member writing a book for a Medical Terminology course. Is anyone using an OER for community health services and the technical careers? Would you please share what you are using?

Additionally, I am looking for medical images. So far, I have discovered these resources:

https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/ - biomedical search engine. cc-by-nc-sa
https://images.nigms.nih.gov/ - National Institute of General Med. cc-by-nc-sa
https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gallery - genetics NIH public domain. cc-by-nc-sa
https://medpix.nlm.nih.gov/home more from nih cc-by-nc-sa
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page - easiest way to search, mostly public domain, cc-0
http://lane.stanford.edu/bioimagesearch.html - color coded usage rights

This one was developed in our College of Medicine:
Undergraduate Diagnostic Imaging Fundamentals - https://openpress.usask.ca/undergradimaging/

Microbiology

There is a microbiology from OpenStax.

There are a few open texts related to earth science including this one from Ck-12 that might be useful - http://www.schools.utah.gov/CURR/science/OER/EarthScienceRS.aspx

We've put together a list of links to BIO material:

http://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/OER/Pages/BiologicalScienceResources.aspx

Thanks,

James Glapa-Grossklag
Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources and Distance Learning
Director, CCC Distance Education Captioning & Transcription Grant
College of the Canyons
T: 661.362.3632
E: james.glapa-grossklag@canyons.edu

Are there any OER collections of photomicrographs that could be used for a virtual Clinical Micro lab?

I have a couple of faculty using this site which has a good slide bank that’s useful. http://www.magscope.com/slidebank/slidebank1.asp
Also, this gentleman’s slides https://www.flickr.com/photos/155301208@N08
I found the most information in searching CC images using histology and then the tissue type. You can also find a lot of slides at Openi, the biomedical image site. https://openi.nlm.nih.gov/
As they are federally funded, the images are CC licensed, though most are CC-BY-ND-NC.

Microbiology, as most of you know, is skills-intensive and requires students to handle lab equipment, make solutions, and manipulate compound light microscopes. Are there best practices and innovative solutions out there that you can share?

Hi Juville, here's what I know is being used in Oregon, including a lab manual: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=microb

Faculty member is looking to update some materials for his Microbiology class.
This is an Introduction to Microbiology and he is looking for any OER materials that could serve as lab simulations, case studies, etc.
I am wondering if you have any ideas that may be of help. He has looked at OpenStax.

I've collected a number of virtual labs, pre-lab videos etc. here:
https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/labs
Not all are open access, but all are clearly labeled. Topics include arts in addition to STEM.
(Suggestions for additions are welcome from librarians and other educators.)
Another resource is BC Campus' Virtual Lab and Science Resource Directory:
https://opentextbc.ca/virtualscienceresources/

I have a faculty member who would is teaching an online Microbiology course that includes labs.
They are currently using a McGrawHill textbook will an access code and would like to switch to OpenStax’s Microbiology book.
Their concern falls with the lab portion of the course and is looking for lab resources and/or lab manuals to draw from. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

BCCampus has a really nice guide to openly-licensed or free virtual labs at: https://opentextbc.ca/virtualscienceresources
(I'm also BCCing a contact there in case there is a more recent version)
There are also an increasing number of lab notebooks/lab manuals in the Open Textbook Library.
The top two in this list might be of interest: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks?term=Microbiology%3A+A+Laboratory+Experience&commit=Go

Lindsay from OpenStax here! We recommend taking a look at the OER Commons Hub for OpenStax Microbiology.
Instructors post resources they've created or found for OpenStax Microbiology, including labs and lab manuals.
We also recommend taking a look at OpenStax's technology partners.
OpenStax partners with 26 learning technology organizations to offer education technology - including labs and lab manuals - alongside Microbiology.
These are low-cost technology options, typically ranging from $0 - $40.

Here’s a Fundamentals of Microbiology Lab Manual from the Atlanta Metropolitan State College.
https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/lab-manual-for-fundamentals-of-microbiology

In addition to the excellent suggestions already shared, there is an Oregon lab manual that is relevant: Microbiology Laboratory Manual.

We have a number of Microbiology resources, including OpenStax, on our platform at LibreTexts:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=microbiology
We are also building our library of open assessments and questions for our ADAPT homework system which, unlike traditional publisher platforms,
has been priced for sustainability and not profit.

A faculty member here at Fanshawe released this Introductory Bacteriology Lab Manual

Nutrition

Looking for OER book in Nutrition (biology based, not health based), along with a food tracker that has reporting options.

One text I’ve been able to find is “An Introduction to Nutrition V1.0”
It seems as though this text was distributed under a CC license at one point, but was picked up by a publisher .
The text is available at the link below:
https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/an-introduction-to-nutrition/
I haven’t spent too much time reviewing this text, however, many of the URLs are out of date and/or not working anymore.

I just did a search for one of our culinary faculty who wanted a nutrition book from a culinary standpoint. All I could find were these biology ones:
https://courses.candelalearning.com/nutritionxmaster/
https://med.libretexts.org/LibreTexts/American_River_College/General_Nutrition_Textbook_(not_Plant-Based)-_reference_for_NUTRI_303_(Hagenburger)
https://drive.google.com/a/nmc.edu/folderview?ddrp=1&id=0ByOHn1XKLsxbNWM2MGE3M2UtOTc4MC00N2RlLTgxY2UtYjY1NzExYTU3Y2I3#
These are all openly licensed so you would be able to take chapters from them and put them together any way you like.

Photosynthesis

Can anyone recommend a quality site for teaching photosynthesis?

Here are a couple I've used for our Plant Biology course.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78utcLQrJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgYPeeABoUs (A They Might Be Giants song)

Respirratory Care

I have a faculty member in Respiratory Care that would like to replace Egan's Fundamentals of Respiratory Care.
Our College just had a RCP Bachelor's Degree approved!

Breathe Easy: RT Student Resource for Mechanical Ventilation might be of interest.

Sonography

I am currently looking for a sectional anatomy OER book or materials.
This is for the sonography dept. They said they look at anatomy in regions instead of systems and they would like to see ultrasound, MRI, etc.
type of images alongside gross anatomy info. something along these lines:

Thank you so much as always you guys are the best!
Here is what I found and what the instructor wanted to go with, plus some extra resources that were shared with me!

OPENLY LICENSED
https://sectional-anatomy.org/ - the instructor really liked this one too!
http://people.vcu.edu/~rfkeith/XSA/CerebrumDiencephalonLimbic/index.html
http://people.vcu.edu/~rfkeith/XSA/ThoraxLabeling/index.html#
http://people.vcu.edu/~rfkeith/XSA/AbdomenLabeling/index.html#
http://people.vcu.edu/~rfkeith/XSA/PelvisLabeling/index.html#
https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/virtualhumananatomylabmanual/front-matter/introduction/
https://pressbooks.pub/undergradimaging/
https://openstax.org/details/books/anatomy-and-physiology

OPEN ACCESS
https://www.mededportal.org/doi/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.10778

UNSURE OF LICENSE
http://people.vcu.edu/~rfkeith/XSA.html - currently asking the author for permission.
Will update if there is any word from them. - this is also the one the instructor wanted to use.

NOT OER (but still a really good source that can be linked out 😊)
https://www.anatomyatlases.org/HumanAnatomy/CrossSectionAtlas.shtml

EXTRA RESOURCES SHARED TO ME (Thanks Elaine!)

THESE ARE ALL CC LICENSED
https://med.libretexts.org/Learning_Objects/Laboratories/Human_Anatomy_Lab_Manual
https://alg.manifoldapp.org/projects/anatomy-and-physiology-i-lab-manual
http://network.bepress.com/medicine-and-health-sciences/anatomy/
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/open-textbooks/1/
https://uta.pressbooks.pub/anatomylab/
https://www.clinicalanatomy.ca/

NOT SURE ABOUT PERMISSIONS ON THESE:
https://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/body/
https://www.ncccval.com/

Virtual Simulation Labs

My College of Science and Mathematics is looking to move more of our courses online with a zero textbook cost.

They have approached me to see if others are doing this and what virtual or simulation labs are being used.

The first course they are asking for is Biology 101.

I know they will also be looking for Intro Chemistry and an astronomy as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have been following the Open RN Project and can’t wait to share that with my nursing faculty.

We haven’t gotten to this yet, but we are just about to complete a big Virtual Reality lab in the Library.

In fact, it’s part of a 4-room suite of labs that will accommodate projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Data Visualization, Virtual & Augmented Reality, and Robotics.

I’ve been working closely with our director of High Performance Computing and so far, the courses that are interested in using it are in biology, computer science, medicine, and aviation.

Nothing is firm yet – we just ordered the furniture and equipment, and I’m sure many more faculty will be interested in using VR in their courses once they see it in action.

But we’re definitely moving in this direction.

Wish I could help right now, but we’re too early on in the process…

Try Phet https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/biology
and
HHMI Biointeractive virtual labs https://www.biointeractive.org/

Take a look at the North American Network of Science Labs Online (NANSLO).

Here is their project summary (Sept 2018); remote labs around the world; and these resources posted in the SkillsCommons Repository.

I'm not sure whether this is what you're looking for, but some Oregon instructors have shared labs designed for students without access to any special equipment:
https://www.oercommons.org/groups/open-oregon-educational-resources/425/?&f.search=lab

Business

Accounting

I was talking to our Accounting program faculty chair about adopting OER for the Principles of Accounting I & II course. They are currently using McGraw Hill’s Fundamental Accounting Principles with Connect Plus (costs $252 for new). He said that they have found the homework manager insufficient in some of the OER they have already looked. They are really interested in OER but the Connect Plus platform makes it so easy for them to teach this gateway course.
For those of you who are using OER for the Principles of Accounting, how did you address this concern from faculty? What are the ancillaries you're using?

We haven't made the full shift yet, but my faculty liked Lumen's Principles of Accounting and My Open Math. I'm pretty sure they have a Waymaker version.

I have looked through the archived email for this group and was able to find a brief decision on the need for an online homeworking system for accounting students. The referred to conversation was a year ago so I am holding out hope to learn of more recent developments or suggestions. I have an amazing accounting faculty who strongly desires to offer a zero textbook cost course and has no problem with the books available. Her concern is she knows it won’t be possible for her to give the same instant feedback students need and receive in the connect accounting homeworking system. Does anyone have an accounting instructor contact who has successfully moved away from a publisher homework system I might connect her with? She desperately wants to offer a course free to students but does not want their learning to suffer because of her choice.
I exchanged email with a professor of ours here at FSCJ who has used MyOpenMath for her Accounting for Managers class. She advised it might be best to start with the Lumen Learning Course List. They have both a financial accounting and a managerial accounting course. I believe the Financial Accounting course is in Lumen OHM, their new Online Homework Manager, derived from MyOpenMath. I don’t know if Managerial Accounting is connected yet to OHM or if it uses MyOpenMath.

We are using Lumen OHM for the Financial Accounting course for online homework, but they don’t have the online homework piece for managerial and they don’t have a plan as of now to create it.

Our Accounting faculty are also wanting an online homework piece as well for the Accounting courses but the choices are slim to none.

It may also be possible (based on the instructor's time and your institution's resources) for the instructor to create their own homework set (we use Blackboard, which allows you to share pools and tests once they are created, as well as tagging the questions when you create them with specific feedback (for example, the assigned reading that is relevant to the topic)

I have a faculty member looking for an open textbook or resources for an accounting research course. The course outcomes are:
analyze an accounting financial issue, separate relevant from irrelevant information, identify problems, develop decision alternatives, and identify additional information needed.
navigate FASB Accounting Standards Codification to research accounting issues.
use critical thinking throughout the problem-solving process to ask appropriate questions and consider various alternatives.
write well-organized, grammatically correct correspondence with emphasis on clarity, coherence, and conciseness.
I've directed her to the Mason Metafinder, but does anyone have suggestions of resources they or their faculty are already using for accounting research?

Here's what I know of that's in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=accounting . Note that neither of these options is an OER.
OpenStax has two accounting books in their new business series: https://openstax.org/subjects/business

I am looking for an OER that has learning resources included. Such as videos, quizzes, and more, for Principals of Accounting.

Hello Megan, if you use Canvas there are a lot of accounting courses for OER in Canvas Commons

My Accounting faculty have been using OpenStax Principles of Accounting, volume 1 (Financial Accounting) and
2 (Managerial Accounting) as textbooks, but a homework set through Cengage that covered the same material.
Now it seems that Cengage is discontinuing the homework site, and my faculty are looking for options,
preferably something that can be put into Canvas (or another LMS).
Are there options out there? Does anyone have recommendations?

LibreTexts new open homework system, ADAPT, has the ability to import into an LMS.
Instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in LMSs,
LibreTexts textbooks, in a standalone application, and in-class clickers.
The ADAPT homework system empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities:
(1) formative vs. summative, (2) autograded vs. open-ended grading, and (3) embedded via LMSs, textbooks, clickers, or stand-alone application.
It also includes an analytics infrastructure to provide real-time learning analytics to instructors on student progress with pre-defined learning objectives.
Also, it will be provided to all educators in California free of charge for the at least the next four years thanks to funding
from the CELL and the State of California. It is available to educators in any state as well for a super low price point
(currently around $30 per student per year).
If you'd like to know more, please reach out any time, and check out our LibreTexts YouTube channel for some recent videos on how ADAPT works.

Does anybody know of any accounting courseware, either OER or low-cost that provide for example integrated Excel, Journal Entries,
T Accounts, Income Statement simulations?
We are looking for OER or low-cost alternatives to McGraw Hill Connect.

Lumen Learning has developed a Financial Accounting OER course.
Here’s the contact information
kiana@lumenlearning.com

Agriculture

I am looking for OER material on Agriculture, and more specifically the business, marketing/sales, and economic side of this field.

You may want to review:
https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/28
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets
Andrew Barkley, Kansas State University
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle versions with chapter only downloads in PDF.

Business Law

Some of my colleagues are researching materials to use in a survey Business Law course, so I am reaching out to see if anyone has created or knows of open Business Law texts that could be used in a sophomore-level course.
The Business Law course is intended for managers of business and covers the topics of employment law, torts, contracts, intellectual property, and business forms. One of the core requirements is giving students an intro to the business legal world and ethics.

One of our business faculty at LBCC customized and updated Saylor's Business Law and the Legal Environment text last year. You can find the LBCC version in our institutional repository.

Our “Legal Environment of Business” faculty uses a combo of:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-legal-and-ethical-environment-of-business
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/foundations-of-business-law-and-legal-environment

We are about to teach our Beta version of Business Law I. This was recently developed as an online course from multiple sources. The following are the major sources for almost all of the content:
Business Law and the Legal Environment – Saylor Academy - https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-law-and-the-legal-environment-v1.0-a/index.html
Business and the Legal and Ethical Environment - https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/business-and-the-legal-and-ethical-environment/index.html
Basics of Business Law – Lumen Learning - https://courses.lumenlearning.com/masterybusinesslaw/
Legal Basics for Entrepreneurs - https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/legal-basics-for-entrepreneurs/index.html

What are folks using for introductory-level paralegal and business law courses?

OpenStax just came out with a Business Law Essentials https://openstax.org/details/books/business-law-i-essentials . Our faculty are currently taking a look at switching to it.

We just finished integrating the OpenStax textbook to complement the FlatWorld textbook in our business library and both are ready for remixing for a customized Remix:
https://biz.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Law
We are working on a third text, but not ready to show.

Another option from an Oregon instructor: http://libarchive.linnbenton.edu/concern/open_educational_resources/ns064618f?locale=en
This is based on an adaptation of Business Law and the Legal Environment by the Saylor Academy.

My name is Melissa Randall and I am currently writing a business law textbook with my students as part of an OER grant funded by the State of Colorado. It is written for the 200-level undergraduate business law class required for business majors.
The textbook will be publicly available in Spring 2020. In the meantime, anyone interested in learning more about what will be in the text, supplemental OER resources we use in class, or the open pedagogy approach we implemented is welcome to contact me directly. My email is Melissa.Randall@ccd.edu .

Business and Professional Writing

One of our instructors is looking for an open textbook on business and professional writing. What do you recommend?

How about these two books? They get great reviews!

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx

I'm in search of a Human Resource management open textbook. (Not the flatworld one)
Would the Saylor book work for you? Tillamook Bay Community College is currently using it: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_human-resource-management/

Does anybody know of ancillaries such as student supplements or assessments that have been developed for Exploring Business – either the Saylor or the UMN versions?
There is an Intro to Business course at https://piercemil.instructure.com/courses/1264001 under demo courses. Feel free to use any ancillaries there.

I have a faculty member who is looking for an open textbook and/or other OER that covers the below business topics. Any suggestions?
- Business Communication
- Entrepreneurship / Business Planning / New Venture Development
Saylor has a Business Comm for Success book:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-communication-for-success/
And Business English for Success:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-english-for-success/
And a Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship book:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_sustainability-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/
And a book on Developing New Products and Services:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_developing-new-products-and-services/

Business and Information Technology

I'm assisting a counseling faculty member who is seeking OER content to support a new course to begin fall 2020. We have found books that are intro to business type and career exploration type but nothing combining the two. Any insight would be helpful. Here is the course description:

This course will introduce students to the main components of identifying a major in business/information technology. Career fields include, but are not limited to, management, marketing, sales, real estate, banking, finance, human resources, database administration, and computer support for business organizations. Through self-assessment students will explore their work interests, personality, skills, values, strengths, and life goals in order to find purpose in their academic curriculum. This course will include career planning, occupational research, and decision-making to formulate a real-world perspective on the local and national opportunities in these fields and the requirements needed to achieve them. Students also gain job search, networking, and interview skills in preparation for an internship search, as well as how to research job trends, salary, employment projections, and educational requirements.

There is an IT Careers module in the Internet Fundamentals course at https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Internet_Fundamentals/IT_Careers . You could expand on this to add the business careers.

Corporate Training

I have an Ontario college educator seeking open materials for a corporate training and development course. She would be willing to adapt materials to our Ontario context of course.
Might you have suggestions and resources? I'm not seeing a large-scale open textbook, but small-scale would also be amazing.

I agree with Stephanie that corporate training can include a lot of different topics: leadership, team building, sexual harassment, etc. For specific topics, they can search in MERLOT.
I did find this book from BookBoon, How to Increase the Effectiveness of your Training. https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=1152723

Customer Service

I am working with a faculty member who would like to move her course to OER.
The course title is "Customer Service" and falls in the Business and Service Industry Division.
Does anyone have resources (and a text) that might fit? I have checked and can't seem to find something that might work.

There's a Canvas shell for this course being used in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Customer

Economics

I have a faculty member using OpenStax Econ (both micro and macro) textbooks. He really likes the books, but is less happy with the test banks. Does anyone know of alternative test banks for those texts?

If the faculty member is using the Taylor OER textbooks for macro and micro I have heard the same complaint from faculty in our district (VCCCD) - that they don't like the testbanks. To get around this challenge faculty have been adding their own questions, or creating alternative assignments using FED data and graphs, or articles from the news.
I have not moved to OER Econ because of unsatifactory reports I have heard about the testbank and the absence of a free, interactive, workbook. Knewton is still being developed, and not free.

Nearly all faculty at Saddleback College in the Economics Department use Lumen Learning (OER content, not Candela or Waymaker). The banks are good but already starting to be found by students on the various cheating websites. We meet as a department once a year to revise the banks to minimize plagiarism.

I am supporting a faculty colleague who will be teaching Environmental Economics beginning this fall.
We haven't found any OERs specific to this subject out there and are wondering if there are resources we've overlooked,
or something that is in production but not yet published.

There are a number of resources on MERLOT:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)
Using MERLOT's search of other libraries:
Other Libraries (merlot.org)
Also:
The Web (merlot.org)

They might find some material in Energy Markets, Policy, and Regulation
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability_and_Conservation)/Book%3A_Energy_Markets_Policy_and_Regulation
and
Sustainability - A Comprehensive Foundation (Cabezas)
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability_and_Conservation)/Book%3A_Sustainability_-_A_Comprehensive_Foundation_(Cabezas)
and
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets (Barkley)
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Economics/Book%3A_The_Economics_of_Food_and_Agricultural_Markets_(Barkley)

Entrepreneurship

I want to let everyone know that we have two new open textbooks from our Edwards School of Business that have been added to our catalogue. Both are by Professor Lee Swanson and carry a CC-BY-SA license. Please let me know if you know of anyone who adopts these. Thank you.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit - http://openpress.usask.ca/entrepreneurshipandinnovationtoolkit/
The Business Plan Development Guide - http://openpress.usask.ca/businessplandevelopmentguide/

I'm back asking for help for another colleague of mine. She teaches our Business 052: Introduction to Entrepreneurship using Entrepreneurship by Bessant and Tidd (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Entrepreneurship-p-9781119221876).
I searched on the archives here, and only really saw an OpenStax option ( https://openstax.org/details/books/entrepreneurship ) but it looks like it's not available, yet. I did pass that on to my colleague to see if it would be helpful.
In the meantime, I've attached our Course Outline of Record, and would love if anyone could point me to any suitable OER. Especially helpful would be resources from instructors who've converted from a textbook similar to the one she's using. But, that might be too much of an ask, so I'll take any help that's out there. Thanks!

Dr. Michelle Ferrier, Ohio University & Liz Mays, Arizona State University and Pressbooks wrote Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship support by the Rebus Community.
Book link: https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/
Book info: https://www.rebus.community/t/project-summary-media-innovation-entrepreneurship/514

I'm back asking for help for another colleague of mine. She teaches our Business 052: Introduction to Entrepreneurship using Entrepreneurship by Bessant and Tidd ( https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Entrepreneurship-p-9781119221876 ).
I searched on the archives here, and only really saw an OpenStax option ( https://openstax.org/details/books/entrepreneurship ) but it looks like it's not available, yet. I did pass that on to my colleague to see if it would be helpful.
In the meantime, I've attached our Course Outline of Record, and would love if anyone could point me to any suitable OER. Especially helpful would be resources from instructors who've converted from a textbook similar to the one she's using. But, that might be too much of an ask, so I'll take any help that's out there. Thanks!

There are a couple of adoptions in Oregon that may be of interest to you: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Entrepreneur

Hotel and Tourism Business

I am working with a Business/Management faculty member looking for OERs for U. S. Hotel & Tourism Business/Management,
especially for any specifically regarding Casinos & Cruise Management.

FYI: There is a second and more current edition of the Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC(CC BY) here:
Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC - 2nd Edition.

Our Hospitality department asked me to look into OER for their new program.
These were the resources I collected for them that were either free or open.
I wasn't able to find anything on cruises or casinos but maybe something in here will be of use!
Hospitality OER Request List

Human Resources

I've been digging through my email trying to find an email re OER for HR and I am coming up empty.
Anyone have anything they'd like to shout out in this area?

While OpenStax does not offer a textbook on HR, they do offer chapters on pertinent HR topics in their business textbooks.
All OpenStax textbooks are available for free online under an open license. I've linked the relevant chapters below:
Introduction to Business: Chapter 8 (Managing Human Resources and Labor Relations)
Organizational Behavior: Chapter 17 (Human Resource Management)
Principles of Management: Chapter 11 (Human Resource Management)
You may find that other chapters in these textbooks are relevant to your HR courses.

We have this version of the Human Resources Management text
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/humanresourcesmgmt/

Human Relations

I’m helping my Business faculty look for OER for Cañada’s BUS 101: Human Relations. It seems like there isn’t as much out there; so far, I’ve only seen the following:
Sac City College has a remix of Human Relations and Organizational Behavior on LibreTexts
The Open Textbook Library has a new text, Scarbrough’s Psychology of Human Relations, which is an OpenOregon’s project.
(OTL also has another one, but it’s from 2012, so that may not be as good an option for recency.)
OpenStax has Organizational Behavior, but that may only cover some of what is needed.
Is there anything else out there that folks are using?

Here is an Introduction to Human Relations OER collection that one of our Skyline faculty colleagues,
Soledad McCarthy adapted and developed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NNkQKcwfJOxjJMVruN4oXo_qbEllgflb/view?usp=sharing

International Trade / International Institutions

I’m seeking OER that addresses international trade and international institutions. This would be for a faculty member who is working on an OER book chapter for International Relations.

Textbooks cataloged in MERLOT include:
International Relations - https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=6051296
International Relations Theory - https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=6051297
History of International Relations - https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=6051246

Intro to Business

I’ve been given the opportunity to pitch an OER textbook for an Intro to Business class alongside the typical publishers. I know that this committee’s biggest issue with OER is the (perceived) lack of instructional materials (instructor test bank, student self-tests, simulations, slide sets, etc.). I’m aware of materials from OpenStax, eCampusOntario, and BCcampus but I’d really like to wow the committee with other possible solutions.
If you know of any additional ancillary materials for Intro to Business topics (esp. the OpenStax text), I would love to hear about them!

Lumen's Intro to Business has lots of faculty resources. You can see the list and request access here -
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introductiontobusiness/

OpenStax has released it’s “Intro to Business” opentextbook as well as some other business texts. Also, if you use Canvas LMS, we are creating cartridges for the texts. Three in the series are completed. Find them in Canvas Commons. Search “CCC OEI OER.” They contain effective pedagogy and are accessible.

Fundamentals of Business, 2nd edition (2018) is an introductory level undergraduate business textbook freely available under an open license in PDF, Pressbooks, screen-reader-friendly PDF, epub, mobi and HTML.
http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84848
We have established a place for reviewers and users of this book to report interest/adoption http://bit.ly/business-interest and a portal for sharing adopter-created ancillaries and communicating with other adopters. We are working on final stages of a testbank created for the book.

The Open Textbook Library lists at least three open textbooks on Business Law: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks?utf8=%E2%9C%93&term=business+law&commit=Go

If you are planning to use a casebook (of Federal/State cases) for a business law course, you might also be interested in OpenCaseBook (H2O) from Harvard Law School and Library Innovation Lab: https://opencasebook.org Harvard has digitized 40 million pages of published U.S. course cases (which are in the Public Domain) through their Caselaw Access Project. You can pull together the Federal and State cases you want students to read into a freely-available, online, CC BY NS SA 3.0 open case book. You can also annotate, highlight, add collaborators, etc.

There is a faculty member at my institution searching for OER textbooks to teach an Introduction to management and Introduction to personal finance courses. Any suggestions?

Check out the OpenStax business series. The management text is there, definitely.
Also, UC Irvine Extention did a personal finance series.

We’ve also uploaded our recently completed Principles of Management (Man2021) course materials into The Orange Grove under the Complete Florida collection.
Finance will be uploaded there in the next few weeks.

For business OER you may want to see the environmental scan conducted in Spring 2019 for eCampus Ontario's by Kyle Mackie:
Slides https://www.kylemackie.ca/business-oer-environmental-scan
Summary report: https://www.ecampusontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-04-04-business-oer-summary-report-en-v1.pdf
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f3BhcWacUsFfZ-toc68_fb0Hwu2foVkifoa8P4NlUWs/edit#gid=0

Management

I’m looking for a Principles of Management for business text – with ancillaries if possible.
Here’s what I’ve found.
Saylor.org Principles of Management https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_principles-of-management-v1.1/
Republished in 2012
The same appears in Open.unm https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/principles-of-management
Publish date 2015 – Reviews 2018 (does that mean it’s been reviewed and would be current?)
Principles of Management – Lumen Found in Opensuny, OER commons - it is open?
Merlot – cannot connect because connection not secure – certificate expired yesterday.
I thought I had seen one in OpenStax
Instructor looking for the most current. Where would I find the last update?
The newest edition of the book currently being used is $160 – ouch!

We just released in beta our online OER course development for Principles of Management. Our primary source was the Lumen Learning Principles of Management Course, mixed in with the Boundless Management text for some topics. Quiz pools were available too. All were open.

OpenStax will publish a Principles of Management book by the end of Spring 2019, with ancillaries available Fall 2019.
Thanks, Nicole. For those of you using Canvas, there will be a Canvas course shell for the new OpenStax text about a month after the book is released.

We have a faculty looking for resources for a Management - Labor Management Relations course. I have found a couple of items via The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) but they are very old resources. We haven’t had much luck finding a good solid resource covering the majority of these topics.

The new OpenStax book may touch on a few of these competencies: https://openstax.org/details/books/business-law-i-essentials

Another faculty member is looking for resources for her Small Business Management (SBM 2000) course. I’ve shared with her those listed on the OpenOregon resources page and we’ve reviewed resources from OpenStax.
Anyone have any alternative resources that are being used?

You may find the 48 texts we are hosting on the LibreTexts:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=business&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
Also, there are about 20 customized business books at different campuses if you search under "Campus Bookshelves" (many remixed from content found in the "central bookshelves" search above).

I am working with two faculty members who are looking for slide decks for these two books:
Principles of Management https://open.lib.umn.edu/principlesmanagement/
Core Principles of International marketing https://opentext.wsu.edu/cpim/

Here's who is known to use Principles of Management in Oregon:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Principles%20of%20Management
You're welcome to contact the ppl with linked email addresses about their courses to see whether they have decks they could share.

We're developing a new undergrad course in supply chain management to run next fall. Instructor is reviewing texts now, open to OER options.
Are there any hidden gems other than the "usual suspects" (OpenStax, OER Commons, etc.)?

These are some supply chain related titles produced out of Conestoga College and in partnership with Fanshawe College in Ontario Canada.
You can find them on the eCampus Ontario Library portal too. There are instructor resources available too. Please find the links below for your convenience.
Global Value Chain
Introduction to Logistics
Procurement in the Supply Chain World

Microsoft Applications

I started to jump for joy when asked to teach a new (to me) business course in the fall so that our department could offer a certificate (4 courses) completely using OER’s. – yes, moving in the right direction, starting small. However, the one course needed is CGS1101 – Microsoft Applications. The instructors are using SIMnet software with simulations, recursive learning, immediate feedback, etc. and not interested in redesigning a course because of the value SIMnet has. Has anyone experienced this and is there anything out there that can be used? I’m assuming because of the software from the publisher – McGraw Hill - it may be hard to compete/compare.

Course description: A course designed to use components of the Microsoft Office suite in commonbusiness applications. Students will gain experience in using Word to create and edit documents; Excel to create, modify and chart spreadsheet data;Access to create, edit and manipulate data in databases; and PowerPoint tocreate a professional slide show presentation. Students will complete integration exercises. Windows functions such as file management, e-mail, and Internet Explorer will be addressed briefly.

In response to Request 1, we are using Information Literacy from Lumen Learning in combination with the activities from GCFLearnFree.org.

GCFLearnFree is not creative commons licensed, so I reached out to them about it and here was their response:

"While our site does not fall under Creative Commons, you can read our Terms of Use to see how specifically you can use our content.

As far as citing us goes, how exactly you do this will depend on the style guide you're using (MLA, APA, Chicago, AP, etc.), but a basic citation should look something like this: GCFLearnFree.org. GoodwillCommunity Foundation. Web. 16 Jan. 2014 (or date accessed).

You can also list Goodwill Community Foundation as the author/editor.

I hope this helps, but please let me know if you have additional questions. Thanks for using GCFLearnFree.org!"

I'm not certain how much redesign would need to be done for your course, but on our end, it was a matter of matching the current activities with the activities from GCFLearnFree. A moderate amount of time spent, but worth it for us.

Personal Finance

I'm in search of OER (textbook + supplemental materials) on personal finance for a faculty member. We're interested in Siegel and Yacht's "Personal Finance," but the 2009 edition is a little dated. Do you know of any revised editions floating around out there? Open to other possibilities as well.

Our personal finance instructor uses: https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Personal%20Finance.pdf

Next Gen seems like a great resource - they have a full curriculum with lessons and many resources: http://nextgenpersonalfinance.org/

I am looking if someone is using an OER material/book with no cost for BUSI 1307 Personal Finance course.

I definitely recommend checking out Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy, an OER book published via Temple University.
https://tupress.temple.edu/open-access/north-broad-press/economics-for-life

Hi Syed, here's what I know of that's in use in Oregon:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=personal%20f

Here is a list of OER materials/books on Personal Finance from the Oasis (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) search tool.
https://oasis.geneseo.edu/basic_search.php?search_query=personal+finance

The three comprehensive course/textbooks all of which have been peer-reviewed:
1. Financial Empowerment: Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-indigenous People
Author: Bettina Schneider, First Nations University of Canada, Saylor Academy
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=5c918b0d-c893-4fd5-a578-45d62a37d383&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
2. Personal Finance Course
Author:Chris Boies
https://www.coursesidekick.com/finance/study-guides/atd-lfcc-personalfinance
3. Personal Finance Textbook
Author: Rachel Siegel - Author / Carol Yacht
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/31

We (LibreTexts) have a couple books that may be of use to you:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22personal%20finance%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random
All our pages can be remixed into a customized text if desired as all OER should be.

Project Management

I am wondering if anyone can help me with finding Project Management course materials or an OER textbook.
I have a faculty member who is new and starting a community college certificate for Project Management and I would love to find some
open educational resources rather than him picking a textbook that is very expensive. Thank you in advance for your help.

Here are a couple I know of:
Project Management by Adriene West, BC Campus
Project Management for Instructional Designers by David Wiley, EdTechBooks I've used this as an instructional designer,
but it also has some guidance useful for project management in any field.

Grad students in our College of Ed updated the Wiley book a couple of years ago.
https://openpress.usask.ca/pm4id/

Here are some OER resources in the LibreVerse that you may take advantage of:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=Project+Management
As with all OER content hosted in our corpus, it is easily remixed with our Remixer augmented with our autoattribution system for effective compliance
with applicable open licensing. Also, the Conductor side of our Commons&Conductor is a Project Management tool customized for OER construction
( https://commons.libretexts.org ). I don't know if that would be useful for you but it is free for the public to use.

At Fanshawe, we worked with a faculty member on the Essentials of Project Management OER. It comes with PowerPoint slides, questions, key terms and H5P

Retail Management

Hi y'all, I'm the new OER Librarian at Tacoma Community College, and this is my first time sending out a call out for OER ideas and suggestions.

We've got a bit of an OER emergency with a course and program here at TCC, for a Retail Management course (BUS 145), for winter quarter.

There look to be some very promising options at SkillsCommons for retailing -- any experience using or reviews for those resources -- or other OER ideas/suggestions for retail management?

If it helps, here's a summary/paraphrasing of BUS 145 Course Learning Outcomes:

What is retailing and career opportunities in retailing
Trends shaping today's retailers and different types of retailers
Unique costumer benefits offered by stores, catalogs, and internet retail channels
How technology affects the future shopping experience
Factors affecting customer purchase decisions
Retail strategies
Types of locations available to retailers
Human resources in retail management
Consumer-retailer and vendor-retailer communications
Customer relationship management
Build brand equity for stores and merchandise
Employee recruitment, motivation, training, and evaluation for salespeople and store managers

We are currently using this textbook: http://www.textbookmedia.com/Products/ViewProduct.aspx?id=3859

Retailing: Integrated Retail Management, 2nd edition

It is not OER, but it is an excellent book and students can read it online for $29.95 or purchase a digital bundle for $36.95. Compared to $260 for Retailing Management (Levy) from Amazon, it is an excellent value. And, again, it is an excellent book.

Savings and Investment

I'm looking for OER materials for a savings and investment course that focuses on stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and real estate.
As you can imagine, searching OER services for information on "savings" and "investment" produces a lot of results about OER, but not necessarily OER about savings and investment.
If anyone has a course or collected material, I'd appreciate hearing about it. I've found many results in sources like OER commons, but not necessarily a textbook or full course focused on this topic. Any additional help is appreciated.

I've worked with a couple of faculty members at Nassau Community College to design an OER Personal Finance course. This is their recommendation:
We found a book from Saylor that we think is very good. The link is below. I hope this is helpful!
https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/textbooks/Personal%20Finance.pdf

Social Media Marketing

I have a business professor who is looking for OERs on Social Media Marketing.
We’ve found some chapters from Intro texts and the like; however, they have been a bit broad in scope.
What we’re looking for are works that cover these topics:
History of Social Media Marketing
Visual Storytelling through Social Media (or as part of Social Media Marketing)
Mobile Marketing on Social Networks
Future of Social Media Marketing

Red & Yellow's eMarketing textbook (which is CC BY-NC-SA) contains some, but not all, of what you are looking for.
They have a couple chapters dedicated exclusively to social media. Social media is also embedded in other chapters.
In particular, I like their "Future of Advertising" chapter.
Direct Download:
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RY_eMarketing_ed7.pdf
Red & Yellow site:
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/textbook/

OpenStax offers a free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed Principles of Marketing textbook featuring a chapter titled "Direct, Online, Social Media, and Mobile Marketing."

Store Operations

I'm hoping someone may have found a textbook to use with a Store Operations course. I've been able to find some of the content requested in basic business and/or marketing textbooks, but am having trouble finding content that includes the following topics: Best practices in retail Loss Prevention, Best practices in retail visual merchandising, Best practices in retail inventory management, How to create a communication plan, How to start your own retail business DiSC Personality Profiles

I searched for a similar course and didn't find too much OER, but did find a decent number of relevant e-books in the O'Reilly/Safari Books platform, if your library has access to this database. As for OER I found the following:
https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/lets-go-shopping/
https://www.cteonline.org/curriculum/outline/retail-merchandising-cte-online-model/ktnU1c

Chemistry

I have a faculty member seeking General/Introduction to Chemistry OER materials that would also include online materials such as problem sets, simulations, cases, etc. Any help appreciated.
Ancillary materials for OpenStax Chemistry books are available at:
https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry#resources
https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-atoms-first#resources

Also, various people have started sharing ancillaries here:
https://www.oercommons.org/groups/openstax-chemistry/1064/discussions/
https://www.oercommons.org/groups/openstax-chemistry-atoms-first/1097/discussions/

You might also try ChemWiki for ancillaries:
http://chem.libretexts.org/
http://chem.libretexts.org/LibreTexts/University_of_California_Davis

I use Openstax Chemistry textbook to teach General/Introduction to chemistry.

The textbook has solved examples and unsolved problems for practice ,embedded videos and simulations . This book can be customized to align with the course outcomes.

My colleague, Shawn Shields, has created a wealth of openly licensed short concept videos for her Chem classes here at Germanna to supplement her other OER materials. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaoV5G6Xe2Voq29NQCNWlBA

Any OER chemistry sources for my community college instructor?

Our Chemistry department is already using the Harvey book on this list and is considering ways to move toward some of the others - https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Chemistry

OpenStax has chemistry open textbooks. And, if your college uses Canvas LMS, we created a course shell for the OpenStax texts. For just the text, go to www.OpenStax.org . For the course shells, go into Canvas Commons and search "CCC OEI OpenStax".

For lab handouts, I mostly pick and choose from the Santa Monica College Online Chemistry Lab Manual Which I have had a lot of success with. Other than that, I adapt or write my own labs, which I haven't uploaded as OER explicitly, but I am happy to do so. They're still a work in progress for the most part, but I'll attach some of the more complete/successful ones. Contact Sean Ryland, sryland@ltcc.edu , for the materials

For general chemistry, the OpenStax textbook is available electronically at no cost, or at a very modest (<$100) cost for a fully bound and color printed version. All OpenStax content is now available in fully ADA-compliant mode in CANVAS Commons as well. LibreText and MERLOT also have OER chemistry content available for faculty adoption.
https://chem.libretexts.org/
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

f you are looking for OER for General Chemistry I and II, I would recommend Open Stax as well.
However, if you are looking for an Introduction to Chemistry course, the Open Stax is a little too much for that and would require a lot of modification.
We, Forsyth Technical Community College, created an OER course for Introduction to Chemistry. It has been submitted and approved through the Achieving the Dream Grant. If you would like more information about the introductory level course, let me know.
Dr. Kirsten Williford
Program Coordinator, Physical Sciences
Chemistry Instructor
Forsyth Technical Community College
336-734-7592
kwilliford@forsythtech.edu

Any OER chemistry sources for my community college instructor?

OpenStax has chemistry open textbooks. And, if your college uses Canvas LMS, we created a course shell for the OpenStax texts. For just the text, go to OpenStax.org . For the course shells, go into Canvas Commons and search "CCC OEI OpenStax".
If you are looking for OER for General Chemistry I and II, I would recommend Open Stax as well.
However, if you are looking for an Introduction to Chemistry course, the Open Stax is a little too much for that and would require a lot of modification.

We, Forsyth Technical Community College, created an OER course for Introduction to Chemistry. It has been submitted and approved through the Achieving the Dream Grant. If you would like more information about the introductory level course, let me know.

If you are using Canvas, Maricopa Millions has published three chemistry courses via Canvas Commons. You can find them by using the search tag "MMOER."

I was wondering if anyone has adopted BCcampus' Introductory Chemistry - 1st Canadian Edition (https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=c7025f6b-f32b-4d0a-865e-f473d9f98fb6&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Chemistry)
and can share what is "Canadian" about it and whether it would be suitable for US adoption?
In your opinion would a US faculty member need to make substantial edits?

In answer to your question about what is Canadian about Introduction to Chemistry - 1st Canadian edition, the adapting author,
Dr. Jessie Key, states: "The only real efforts to 'Canadianize' it was to remove some of the questions with imperial units
(there may still be some present), and to add topics which would be covered in a Canadian introductory chemistry course.
Also, by default, I did use Canadian spelling for any content I wrote."
This was one of the first major adaptations embarked on by BCcampus Open Education
(referred to as the B.C. Open Textbook Project at the time).
With time, we developed a more comprehensive guide for Canadianizing open textbooks including adding Canadian content,
replacing examples with Canadian ones, and using Canadian spelling (see Appendix 3: Canadian Spellings and Word List in the
Self-Publishing Guide).
To read what other changes were made to the Introduction to Chemistry - 1st Canadian edition adaptation, see the
Metadata section at the bottom of the online home page of this textbook.

We have a faculty member looking for ancillary materials for an Introduction to Chemistry course. He is interested mainly in Power Point slides and test banks.
I have been able to find some materials looking through this listserv's archive:
http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm#Chemistry < http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm#Chemistry > .
However, he is adapting the textbook published by the Saylor Foundation ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introductory-chemistry ), and would like to know if there are materials out there that were developed specifically for that textbook.

We, the LibreTexts, have integrated that text and ungraded it a bit into
our chemistry library ( chem.libretexts.org ). We haven't prepared a slide
deck (yet), but will do so soon as part of out comprehensive mandate for
chemistry. We have collected a lot of questions over the years (public
and private) for use as a test bank.

The professor is welcome to use the OpenStax ancillaries for Chemistry or Chemistry Atoms First, even if he isn’t using our texts.
Chemistry (Note, sometime this year we’ll publish a second edition of this book): https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry?Instructor%20resources
Atoms First Chemistry: https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-atoms-first?Instructor%20resources
He’ll need to create an account and be verified as a faculty member for some of the resources. He can do that here: https://accounts.openstax.org/signup

Is anyone privy to some good General Chemistry I & II lab manuals and/or textbooks? We are currently using https://openstax.org/details/books/chemistry-2e . Any leads are greatly appreciated!

You mean beside the Chemistry library of the LibreTexts with the largest collection of chemistry OER on the net?
https://chem.libretexts.org/

Hi Chris, you can browse Oregon's chemistry adoptions here: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=chemi

Does anyone have some resources or textbooks or manuals for Chemistry Lab Courses?

We have a lot to pick from
https://chem.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=lab+manual&type=wiki
and individual labs are here:
https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Laboratory_Experiments
Several of these are wired into our ADAPT homework system.

I am searching for some good power points for the following textbook: Gen Chem II - OpenStax

Check in OER Common's OpenStax hub. There are lots of resources for the text.
https://oercommons.org/groups/openstax-chemistry-2e/1064/?__hub_id=27

OpenStax Chemistry 2e comes with various free instructor resources, including PowerPoint slides! You can find those here.
You will need to create an instructor account to access these resources.

Does anyone have a lead on a homework system for general chemistry that's similar to Active Chemistry?
Our faculty are using an OpenStax book, but students are still paying for access to the Active Chemistry homework system,
and we'd love to get them connected with an OER resource instead. They've explored options to build them in MyOpenMath and
WeBWork, but don't have capacity to take on the project right now.

We (LibreTexts) have been building a OER homework system called ADAPT
( https://adapt-promo.libretexts.org/ )
for the past four year thanks to support from the State of California. In fact, we focused on gen chem first
(I am a Prof of Chem at University of California, Davis BTW).
The system include IMathAS (the tech around MyOpenMath), Webwork, H5P, and native question (including an organic chemistry sketcher).
We have been expanding the chemistry corpus extensively from open-source libraries and from our own.
You can see some of the problems here (including the molecular sketcher):
https://adapt.libretexts.org/students/assignments/73558/init-formative
It is a freely available question bank for all verified users so your faculty can start looking at the questions immediately (once verified).
Using it as a submission platform requires some buy-in by at a very low price (we operate at cost as part of our mission).
We did a recent informal overview for an OpenEducationGlobal chat last week:
https://x.com/OpenEdGlobal/status/1852380096549531749
Let me know if you need any more details. The project has been growing like gangbusters recently.
Regards,
Delmar

Organic Chemistry

I have a professor working on moving an organic chemistry course to OER. He’ll be using the LibreText books but needs some help with assignments.
Anyone have any resources they can send my way? Homework sets, prompts, anything like that will help. We discussed project-based assignments to make grading easier.

We have been collecting OER ochem questions for a while on the LibreTexts and have started to migrate them into the new ADAPT system. This is the first step to building a more o-chem oriented technology akin to openOchem.

We have already integrated the questions from Soderberg's Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis (Soderberg) text into ADAPT (although they are mostly open-ended, i.e., not part of the autograded setup). We have started to migrate the more traditional questions into ADAPT and this summer we will be building the complete question databank to accompany McMurray's textmap (a OER version of the commercial text that is under developement).
Moreover, several repositories of GOB questions have been integrated, which include a range of basic ochem questions.

If any of these are of interest to you, please contact me directly and I can showcase them to you.
Regards,
Delmar

One of my chemistry faculty is heavily involved with OER, and has the following suggestions:
Here are a couple:
A - http://www.openochem.org/ooc/
B - https://organic.101edu.co/
C - https://wwnorton.knowledgeowl.com/help/smartwork
A is open source. C is the best right now, it’s my goto and not expensive but is for-pay. B was just released and (while I haven’t played with it) looks awesome (also for-pay).
A has classic problems, C is great for mechanisms, B can be used for active learning in lecture or online (plus quizzes, hw, and more).

I have an instructor who wants to start utilizing OER in his Organic Chemistry online classes.
He (previously) has been using SmartBook and ALEX – he will need OER materials and including “a drawing tool”
– I am including the course descriptions of the two classes for your perusal.
CHM 221 – Organic Chemistry I
This is the first course in a two-semester sequence.
Topics in this course include nomenclature, structure, physical and chemical properties, synthesis,
and typical reactions for aliphatic, alicyclic, and aromatic compounds with special emphasis on reaction mechanisms, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.
Laboratory is required and will include the synthesis and confirmation of representative organic compounds with emphasis on basic techniques.
CHM 222 – Organic Chemistry II
This is the second course in a two-semester sequence.
Topics in this course include nomenclature, structure, physical and chemical properties, synthesis, and typical reactions for aliphatic, alicyclic, aromatic,
and biological compounds, polymers and their derivatives, with special emphasis on reaction mechanisms, spectroscopy, and stereochemistry.
Laboratory is required and will include the synthesis and confirmation of representative organic compounds with emphasis on basic techniques.

We have a range of Ochem content/texts in our chemistry library:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22organic%20chemistry%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random
We have been building these for 15+ years and look forward to expand them when the McMurry text is available very soon.
Although the Morsch text is a map of McMurry's text.
As for drawing. We just received a State of California grant to expand the ADAPT homework system into many STEM fields.
The first year (starting this summer) will be involve chemistry and we have the plans setup for expanding with molecular drawing tools (as part of ochem assessments)
along with other tech advancements.

I am writing to see if anyone is aware of a laboratory manual to accompany the Openstax Organic Chemistry book.
I have a professor wanting to utilize the book, but is having trouble finding suitable materials for the full course – especially the second semester.
We've found a lab manual from Moravian College (authors Libby & Libby), as well as Nichols' Organic Chemistry Laboratory Techniques.
Any other resources we should be considering?

We have our ochem labs in a mini-repository rather than a formalized lab manual on our LibreTexts platform:
Check out here:
https://chem.libretexts.org/Ancillary_Materials/Laboratory_Experiments/Wet_Lab_Experiments/Organic_Chemistry_Labs

We recommend the following high quality, OER lab manuals and resources for Organic Chemistry:
Early topics: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/369
Survey of organic chemistry: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17kCOjwvFzr1BUhUZRl5SHJ09CUedmvaR
Lab techniques: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/369

Communications

Hi Amanda, Oregon instructors are using these resources:
Public Speaking: The Virtual Text http://publicspeakingproject.org/
Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking (Saylor) https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=77

I recently did a similar search for our comm studies department. Below is what I found. I don’t know anything about these texts, but there may be something useful here:
https://courses.candelalearning.com/catalog/lumen
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=df4d269a-aaa6-47dd-9cb3-4f4eb381154f&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
they seem to have others; this is just one example
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=8
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=238
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=143
they have more; this is just what came up for "communication" (which is the query I used; there may be a better one)
http://www.collegeopentextbooks.org/textbook-listings/textbooks-by-subject/languagesandcommunications
this is a list of various options
https://legacy.saylor.org/comm311/Intro/

In addition to Amy and Suzanne’s excellent suggestions, I would recommend that you look at the California Open Online Library (Cool4ed.org) site since Public Speaking (COMM 110 in California) was selected as one of the top 50 college courses. The CA OER Council has posted faculty peer reviews for 5 open or low-cost textbooks for COMM 110. Also, one of the faculty showcases linked to the site is from a community college instructor who has adopted one of these open textbooks in her Fundamentals of Public Speaking course. http://cool4ed.org/reviews.html
Scroll down to Public Speaking (alphabetical order by subject.)

Has anyone found a good Interpersonal Communications textbook? Most of the ones I’ve found have focused on business interpersonal communications.

Hello Lori, I am using the following two books to teach an oral communication course
http://publicspeakingproject.org/psvirtualtext.html
https://www.scribd.com/document/336503411/A-Primer-on-Communication-Studies

We’re looking for the same course. Here’s what we found:
https://courses.candelalearning.com/interpersonalcommunicationxmaster/ This is what they're using at Bunker Hill CC.

I’m working on developing a new class for undergraduate Intercultural Communication and would prefer to use open resources. Anyone have any ideas?

Chapter 8 is an introductory start:
http://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/
OER Commons has a few:
https://www.oercommons.org/
search “intercultural communication”

I've been trying to track down potential materials for a Communications class titled "Argumentation: Analysis of Oral and Written Communication". I've been able to find a number of items which deal with argumentation but they are usually designed for Philosophy classes. Does anyone have suggestions of materials for critical thinking which are more geared to an approach heavier on speaking and analysis of oral communication?

Our argumentation and debate faculty is using "Influencing Through Argument” https://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/Influencing%20through%20argument.pdf

That said, I am not actually sure of the copyright on this material because there are two places online you can find it, one is the link above that takes you to the book and one takes you to a page that says the book is not available online any longer and has an Amazon link.

I would love to hear what others are using as I am in Communication Studies and working on compiling OERs in the discipline.

On the verso page of that file (4th page in this case) it shows a traditional copyright in 2005 held by Alfred C. Snider.

Hi Kristie and Wil, The San Bernadino Community College has compiled a list of OER by subject and the one for Comm Studies is quite exhaustive. The link is: https://www.valleycollege.edu/open-education-resources/faculty/communication_studies.php

Our Comm Studies folks use “Logical Reasoning” for their Argument and Debate class.
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/d/dowdenb/4/logical-reasoning.pdf

Hi, A college and I are hoping to use the Open Textbook Library book - Communication in the Real World: An introduction to Communication Studies https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=274 for our Fundamentals of Oral Comm class. Does anyone know if there is an OER test bank available for it?

I don’t have a test bank. I am using it as an Interpersonal book. I added a communication climate chapter to it and posted my remix to Academia.edu. I got in touch with the helpful librarians at U Minnesota. They shared the Word source files. I highly recommend that you start your project with those files. Feel free to email me backchannel for more info.

Thanks, Jason. In case useful to you or others -- Andy Schmitz has HTML .zip files for a version of the text at https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/a-primer-on-communication-studies/
Editing Word files is easier, but if anyone needs to copy/paste just sections or wants to re-upload somewhere, the HTML could be useful.
This is the same book under a different title, which Schmitz explains here: https://2012books.lardbucket.org/

Broadcast Copywriting
I’m looking for OER on broadcast copywriting. The course is intended to teach students to write creative radio, television, and web commercials.

The "Creating" chapters of Red & Yellow's eMarketing book might have some useful content for you:
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RY_eMarketing_ed7.pdf
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/textbook/

Communication Between the Sexes
A COMM-126 instructor is seeking to expand the scope of the course materials beyond binary gender categories for ‘Communication Between the Sexes.’

You might check out Jimena Alvarado's Everyday Social Justice site: https://www.everydaysocialjustice.com/complete-courses/introduction-to-womens-studies

The instructor might also be interested in The Gender Spectrum Collection of stock photos featuring non-binary and trans models, developed as a response to under- (or non-) representation of these communities in existing imagery.
It's not an OER or textbook equivalent by any means, but it seems extremely relevant to the topic areas you listed.

Fiber Optics
I have a prof who is looking for OER - ideally a book, but I'm open to other OER, on the subject of Fiber Optics. I've checked all the usual suspects, so I'm sortta hoping there is a hidden gem out there that someone can point out to me.

A few resources that might be helpful here:
https://wonders.physics.wisc.edu/fiber-optics/ (Teacher outreach program, funded by Dept of Energy, but couldn’t find a CC License)
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-fibre-optic-cable-clas (an interactive lab focused on K-12 but interesting, cc-by))
Review on Developments in Fiber Optical Sensors and Applications (Open Access Journal)
PHYS102: Introduction to Electromagnetism, Unit 7, Optics (Saylor.org , cc-by)

Our Physics and Engineering LibreTexts libraries have a range of pages focusing on the topic; these can be remixed/customized depending on the level of remix you are looking for:

https://phys.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=fiber+optics&type=wiki
https://eng.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=fiber+optics&type=wiki

Let me know if you need more information; my day job involves operating a couple heavy-duty optics labs.

Intercultural Communications
I’m oh so close to securing a communication class and thus am on the hunt for an intercultural communication book. Any recommendations?

This is the intercultural book I am reviewing. I have never used it before but it looks promising.

Lee, C.C. (2015) Internationalizing “International Communication.” available at https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=nmw;c=nmw;idno=12748916.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;xc=1;g=dculture

I have a faculty member looking to replace her text, Communication Between Cultures that she currently uses in a 100 and 200 level Intercultural Communications course. The focus is more I would say draws more from Cultural Sociology and Anthropology at the 100-200 level rather than a linguistics approach.
A TBCC instructor is using Diversity and Difference in Communication (Open Learn) along with supplemental readings.

A speech instructor is interested in finding OERS for an interpersonal Communication speech class. The class description is as follows:
This course introduces the practices and principles of interpersonal communication in both one-on-one and group settings. Students will study how the individual characteristics of the speaker and the environment can influence the way we communicate.

You can find our Interpersonal Communications text at:
https://www.canyons.edu/academics/onlineeducation/ztc/textbooks.php
Scroll down to “Communications.” Please let me know if you’d like to receive a Word file of the book.

From a COMM prof who worked on a OER text a couple of years ago:
[We use] the following OER for Interpersonal. It does include a combination of public speaking and interpersonal, so we direct students to the relevant chapters. Feel free to share this information.
https://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/

Hi all --- I'm working on a Z-Degree project via an NDUS Fellowship Grant here in North Dakota. I've been digging up substitutes for faculty to consider, and I've run into a few topics that appear to not have any obvious OER pieces. Please prove me wrong! :-) (Intercultural Communication)

Sybil, For Intercultural Communication, there is a new textbook titled Exploring Intercultural Communication by Tom Grothe from Butte College on LibreTexts.
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Butte_College/Exploring_Intercultural_Communication_(Grothe)

International Relations

I have a faculty interested in an OER Textbook for Introduction to International Relations.

A faculty member at BCC has modified this text and included pictures, videos, and some revised content:
https://www.e-ir.info/2017/01/09/international-relations-theory/
Her adaption is in a Canvas shell at the moment because she wants to do some additional work on it this summer but if you'd like to look at it I can put you in touch with her.

I use the free, "open access" but seemingly not OER:
https://www.e-ir.info/publication/beginners-textbook-international-relations/
There are more:
https://www.e-ir.info/publications/

Interpersonal Communications
I am on the hunt for Interpersonal Communications OER. Here is a sample course description for IC:
This course is designed to help students analyze the principles of verbal and nonverbal transactions that occur in personal and professional interpersonal contexts. This course gives students the opportunity to apply theory and research findings into practical skills within interpersonal relationships.

Not a new text but I recently transferred the Flatworld IP text (modified for a quarter system IP class) to Pressbooks. Includes native glossary and footnotes.
http://textbooks.whatcom.edu/cmst210/
Its clonable and no copyright on the modifications or technical updates.
(But watch for the language around how genders communicate. It’s very binary.)

Media Design
My colleague and I are trying to wrap up a competency on visual design for our freshman level Workplace Communication class. We have found great OER resources for technical writing, and have adjusted those sources for our students, but we can’t seem to find any resources for creating visual design in terms of fliers or brochures (either print or digital). I realize this isn’t a thriving part of digital media, but it’s a great way to teach students about visual design by introducing an achievable low-stakes task. If you have any OER resources that you’ve used or any resources you’ve designed for this competency, we would greatly appreciate your input.

Hi Tammy, would this help?
Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud, Revised Edition
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/digitalfoundations/

Nonverbal Communications

Can anyone recommend some resources, or an entire course for OER in non-verbal communication?

Check this out: http://open.lib.umn.edu/communication/chapter/4-2-types-of-nonverbal-communication/
I've also found that developing a taxonomy of nonverbal communication is a great way to draw on students' existing knowledge. With a little help from structures (like those in the above page) students can often reflect on and identify various forms of nonverbal communication in their experiences, and communicate about that to their peers.

Public Speaking

Greetings all! I am in the midst of doing some sleuthing regarding the OER being used in our system for public speaking.
In the rare instances that I can actually see what OER is in use, the text "Stand Up, Speak Out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking" has been what is in use.
I came across one instance where a $40 digital version of the 2nd edition of this text was in use - which I am guessing is copyrighted.
I'm curious as to whether anyone has compared the 1st and 2nd edition - or if someone has created their own 2nd edition.
I hope that makes sense - I thought I'd ask the broader community before I harassed my comm studies colleagues -
or paid the $40 to get whatever that gets me - so I could see for myself. Inquiring minds - at least this one - want to know...

That particular title was originally published in 2011 by Flatworld with an open license (CC BY-NC-SA).
A few years ago, Flatworld was purchased by new owners who changed the business model: https://news.elearninginside.com/oer-flatworld-textbook-market/ .

The original books are still openly licensed, since CC licenses are irrevocable, and have been kept alive by various people and organizations.
The University of Minnesota has been particularly dedicated to keeping these texts alive, though they have removed Flatworld as publisher,
apparently at Flatworld's request. Here's Minnesota's copy of the 1st edition, which is OER and was published using the Pressbooks platform:
https://open.lib.umn.edu/publicspeaking/ .
It also has an entry at the Open Textbook Library with faculty reviews that give you some sense of the content and its relevance:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/77

Flatworld subsequently produced a second edition of this title (released in 2016), which is available for sale from their website.
You can see the Table of Contents and other information about it at
https://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/wrench_2_0-stand-up-speak-out-the-practice-and-ethics-of-public-speaking-2-0#table-of-contents .
A description of changes made for the second edition can be found at
https://scholar.flatworldknowledge.com/books/30175/wrench_1.0-ch00pref .
I presume that this is the book that's showing up for $40 in your system catalog?
I don't want to stir up a can of worms, but I'm curious as to whether they claim copyright for this second edition
(it isn't clear anywhere on the site that I could see), and if so, whether doing so would violate the CC license of the original.
Probably a question for others to take up, if they feel so inclined. I certainly appreciate the quality of the Flatworld books that I've seen in the past,
so don't want to cast any aspersions on them as an organization.

It's one of the old Flat World Knowledge texts.
Original version was published under CC BY-NC-SA licence in 2011.
That version became NOT for attribution at the request of Flatworld after the freemium business model ended and they went with low cost publishing model.

The 2nd edition by the authors and publisher was published in 2016. Description of revisions are on this link:
https://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/wrench_2_0-stand-up-speak-out-the-practice-and-ethics-of-public-speaking-2-0

University of Minnesota released their own formatted version of the 2011 text. https://open.lib.umn.edu/publicspeaking/front-matter/publisher-information/

Long time reader, first time poster.
I have a professor looking to replace her introductory public speaking text-but she'd like something with built in assessments.
Is that something any of you have seen/used?
I see a lot of textbook options but not with those kinds of bells and whistles.
Outside of this "everything I get from my current textbook company" question, how about just a great public speaking text you or your faculty use?

We - the LibreTexts team - added assessments for "Stand up, Speak out -
The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking" into our ADAPT homework
system. They are mostly open-ended now, but can be switched to
auto-graded in an hour or two (our plan):
https://adapt.libretexts.org/students/courses/744/assignments/anonymous-user
with texts in the SocialSci library:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Communication/Public_Speaking
We were uploading the questions for a different public speaking project
a few weeks ago; I am unsure of the status, but I can find out.
ADAPT does allow for audio upload, which is a different form than
standard homework assessments (used for foreign language and music courses).

You can see what's in use in Oregon via the Open Oregon Resources page ( https://openoregon.org/resources ).
Right now it's a little messy to look for all public speaking courses because we have 4 prefixes in use (!).
So I recommend doing a control-F for COM , COMM , SP , and SPE . Including the space after the characters in your search string
will get you there more easily. Entries with a check mark include ancillaries. You can filter for this with the checkbox at the top of the page.

We use https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Communication/Public_Speaking/Public_Speaking_(The_Public_Speaking_Project)

Several of my institution's faculty are currently working on a basic public speaking text.
They intend to eventually create ancillaries, but those will come later. The text, Communication for College, Career, and Civic Life,
is due out in 2023 and will take approaches focusing on DEI, information literacy, and digital technology.
If you'd like me to get you in touch with the authors, feel free to let me know.

Visual Communication

We have an instructor looking for a text for Visual Communication

Two Oregon instructors are using Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning by Pamela Sachant, Peggy Blood, Jeffery LeMieux, and Rita Tekippe. Published by University System of Georgia, University of North Georgia Press: http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=arts-textbooks

Computer and Information Science

AutoCAD

I am teaching CAD 153 (Intermediate AutoCAD)
I am looking to find projects whereby I may use our 3D printer in this CAD course.
The highlight of CAD 153 is creating CAD drawings that use GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance). GD&T created prints are used in manufacturing. This ensures that manufactured products adhere to specific dimensions and tolerances.
Since our CNC machine class is not running this semester, I was hoping to use our 3D printer as a substitute.

If you haven't yet done so, you might want to check Skills Commons. Below is one of the resources I found:
CAD 262 3D Printing
Provides the student with the ability to blend the virtual and real design worlds together through the use of 3D Scanning, 3D CAD Modeling, and 3D Printing.

C++

For C++ specifically, there is:
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach using C++
There is now a second edition of that resource that includes matching examples in C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Swift. See:
Programming Fundamentals - A Modular Structured Approach, 2nd Edition
There are also plenty of free but not open programming language resources available online. SoloLearn is very good. I also recommend FreeCodeCamp, W3Schools, and TutorialsPoint.

Computer Concepts and Applications

An instructor teaching the courses below wishes to go OER. If you know any textbooks or other resources that might work, please email me directly at sda...@coastline.edu. I'll compile a list and send it back out to the listserv.

Thank you!
Scott Davis
OER coordinator, Coastline

***

CST 232 Ethical Hacking
This course is a survey of the ethical and legal issues pertaining to security testing. It will demonstrate how to use tools that can be used to gain information about a computer network, how to recognize that the tools are being used, and how to defend a network against those attacks.

CST 245 Computer Forensics
Introduction to Computer Forensics Investigations. The class will cover such topics as how to recognize that a computer crime has occurred and steps follow when acquiring, authenticating, and analyzing data on a compromised system. Hands-on portion will explore the use of several Computer Forensics
tools.

CST 260 CISSP
This course covers the ten domains of information security known as the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge (CBK). Completing this course does not guarantee CISSP certification; however, the course addresses the test objectives defined by (ISC)2 for the CISSP examination.

The only real *free* things I know are videos on http://www.securitytube.net/ and if local libraries (or your college) has a subscription tosafaribooksonline.com (my local library does, and many universities do, I highly recommend it), they have some decent CISSP books too.
My suggestions for OPEN (OER) for computer science and networking is to take a search at the Saylor.org site. All of their materials have a creative commons license so are OPEN. They have at least 20 Computer Science courses from Intro to Computer Science, Programming in C++, Datbases, Networking, Information Security, Cryptography, etc. https://learn.saylor.org/course/index.php?categoryid=9

All of these materials can be re-used freely. Here is more information about their OPEN policy:
http://www.saylor.org/open/

The second suggestion would be to search SKILLS COMMONS. This is the OER Repository for the TAACCCT grants which were all community college grants targeted at career retraining and requiring material developed to be OER. In some quick searching I found this course developed by David Rigor at Moraine Valley Community College. The materials have a Creative Commons License Attribution or the least restrictive license allowing you to reuse, remix, revise, retain, redistribute.
https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/5382
Maybe the Cybrary is worth a look. Not textbooks but lots of resources.

Do any of you know any OER or perhaps free resources for learning code and creating apps?
Apple has just released a free, open source coding curriculum for Swift, their IOS programming language. HCC is offering this training now: http://hccs.edu/coders
Here's the link to the Apple "Everyone Can Code" site, https://www.apple.com/everyone-can-code/ , which includes links to learning more about their free "Get Started with Code" curriculum as well as learning more about their "Swift Playgrounds" curriculum and their "Apple Development with Swift" curriculum.
I also came across a "Game Development and Programming for Beginners" course, CC BY SA, in OER Commons, here at https://www.oercommons.org/courses/001-beginner-gamedev-coding (abstract begins: "How to make a game app from scratch?")

I was wondering if anyone has found Creative Commons licensed resources for instruction of Microsoft Office 2013 (or newer). I think GCFLearnFree is a great resource, but it is not technically OER (and won’t work for our Z Degrees) without that CC license. I did find an open textbook for Excel, but that is about it. Lumen’s Information Literacy course does have some Microsoft Office information, but in the form of video tutorials. Is there anything else out there?

Lumen actually has a brand new open course in this area - https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-compapp/ . Much of the content is original. All the original content is CC BY. The content is fully attributed.
In addition to the static content available at the link above, there's also a Waymaker version of the course available. (If you don't know what that means, see http://lumenlearning.com/what/waymaker/ .)--

I have an instructor who is hoping to find OER for the course we call Microcomputer Operating Systems. It is a 100-level course. I am finding some okay sources to cover bits and pieces, but keep thinking I must be missing something! If anyone knows of an instructor using OER for a course like this, I’d love to see what they’re using. Thank you!

We used to teach an operating systems course similar to that. We updated it / replaced it with IT Fundamentals, a course that targets the CompTIA entry-level certification of the same name.
For an OER course on IT Fundamentals, see:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/IT_Fundamentals
It typically shows up as #3 on a Google search for that topic, ahead of any other textbook on the subject. CompTIA called me once asking about the course. They recommend it themselves if they have someone who can't afford to buy their materials.

As an adjunct, I teach a course called “Computer Concepts and Applications” that most, if not all programs require (it’s the general tech ed requirement). I am considering the possibility of creating an OER textbook (or at the very least review/study tool) to replace the $200 plus textbook that most instructors (including myself) use.
The outline (and our college’s course requirements) are listed in this Google Doc. Any feedback, suggestions, ideas, etc. would be greatly appreciated. (i.e. should this be a textbook or supplemental guide, would you like to see specific topics I don’t have listed, should I remove topics listed…)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18JuL8EKIR0iKTVskU6NH293ECJEzU--arDxvaijOzbE/edit?usp=sharing
Should I choose to move forward with this project, and you would like to lend assistance and/or provide feedback at the end of the project, let me know! I’ll compile a list and make notification; should this pan out. Of course, I will provide the final product to this listserv for everyone to use, should they desire. Go ahead and email me individually rather than a reply all/reply to the listserv.

There are a few openly licensed courses already in use in Oregon that you might be able to use as a starting point:
http://elearning.linnbenton.edu/course/view.php?id=3130
https://bluecc.instructure.com/courses/516
https://elearning.linnbenton.edu/course/view.php?id=3979
Related readings that are being used in Oregon:
http://computerscience.chemeketa.edu/cs160Reader/
https://opentextbc.ca/dbdesign01/

A colleague is looking for OERs for two CIS courses:
Introduction to Windows
and
Google Applications

We are currently harvesting a resource in the LibreTexts that can help (from Minnesota) as part of a great CIS OER we are building for Los Rios CC district:
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Under_Construction/Book%3A_Computer_Fundamentals_for_Technical_Students_(Heisserer)
We are still polishing for accessibility, cross referencing to the centralized framework, and adding the dynamic glossary, but it should be good to go.
All the pages are fully remixable as OER should be.

Here are two course shells created in Oregon that are relevant: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=windows

I’m seeking resources for a course called Technical Computer Applications.
Course Description: An introduction to computers, elements of computer hardware and software and how they are used in the workplace, and the social impact of computers.
Hands-on introduction and development of general computer skills for technical programs such as word processing, spreadsheet, presentation applications, and email.
SLOs:
Create and modify files using Microsoft Office programs.
Analyze the formatting needs of a specific Microsoft Office file to improve its appearance.
Identify the appropriate software applicable to their trade industry and explain its use.

Hi Sally, you might check out this open course shell from Oregon: https://bluecc.instructure.com/courses/516

Agreed on GCF Global. For a course designed around GCF Global learning activities, see
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/IC3

1. On windows, there’s this one:
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/basic-computing-using-windows/view
2. Computer Applications for Managers:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:36a3c59a-b352-4e1e-9b47-752b70f7349d#pageNum=1
3. Computer Fundamentals for Technical Students. I believe I sent this one already but … this is for Windows and basic IT stuff:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:0ce16585-8fd7-46bf-9edf-ff46d1844e3f#pageNum=1

I'm working with a faculty member to determine what would be involved in getting her course to zero-cost and the sticking point
appears to be the need for SAM365.
It is described as follows:
SAM Challenge 365/2019 is an Exam only assessment tool that tests essential Microsoft Office and computer concepts skills
at the pre and/or post-assessment stage to assess your students level of proficiency, prior to enrollment,
on the first day of class or at the end of the course. Students engage in a hands-on environment, then apply their skills to real-world applications.
Auto-graded assignments and flexible reporting tools saves instructors time and energy.

I use GFC Global. It is not the same as SAM365. However, you can have students complete the quizzes at the end of each training through their
GFC Global accounts and submit their final scores. Example: There are 35 tutorials for Microsoft Word and a final tutorial quiz.
I also use it for assignments, but I have to grade those.
If anyone has a better tool or way to implement GFC Global better, I would love to hear your ideas.

Later this year, OpenStax is releasing a new free, online, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbook named Workplace Software and Skills.
This textbook is designed to support a variety of courses covering computer literacy, Microsoft Office, and Google Suite applications.
It also combines studio learning and guided practice with scaffolded activities to equip students with the technological skills
necessary to succeed in today’s workforce.
A sample of the text is available here:
https://openstax.org/details/books/workplace-software-skills .

Computer Literacy

Does anybody know of an OER or low-cost alternative to MindTap? We have faculty at my school who are interested in switching to a lower-cost option that includes a simulation environment for computer basics and Microsoft Office (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook) but we have not been able to find a free or low-cost alternative that provides the same type of interactive modules.

Consider using https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/subjects/tech/ for free tutorials, step-by-step instructions, practice files, videos, etc. Students can get Microsoft Office for free. See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/products/office . The only thing you wouldn't have is the automated grading.
For Mac or Chromebook users who want access to a Windows environment, Amazon AWS has Workspaces available for around $10 per month if used carefully, and several months available as a free trial. Students can also use AWS EC2 instances and get enough credits to use free for the semester or even a year, but EC2 is a bit more complicated to get started.

We are designing a course for our returning adult learners and need to find so basic materials for digital literacy.

Please consider using GCF Global: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/ . The content is excellent and free.

If you'd like to see it organized as a course or as continuing education resources, please see either:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Computer_Skills
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/IC3
You are welcome to borrow from and/or enhance either wiki if you have additional resources or suggestions.

Just a quick reminder that GCF Global is free but not open. You can NOT copy the resources from GCF Global into your CMS/LMS without permission as they are copyrighted. Dave has done a great job in his courses below linking out to the GCF resources which is allowed.
Terms of use can be read here

I am trying to help a faculty member redesign a course that covers MS Office Word, PPT, and Excel.
Students are required to take this course and hate they have to pay so much money to take this course.
They use Pearson’s website and Pearson’s book and this costs the students around 150 dollars.
I would love to be able to find OER materials, so the students do not have to buy the book and pay for access to the Pearson website.
I also need a resource for basic computer literacy for those adult students returning for a degree or returning to finish a degree.

Hi Susan - as a faculty member teaching computers I often use Goodwill Foundations Learnfree Resources -
they are openly available, but not OER https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/subjects/tech/
They provide videos, sample start files, and step by step instructions. They are also updated with each new version.

I have seen this website as well, but we do not use it based on what they have stated in their terms of use -
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/info/terms-of-use/1/ .
I would recommend reviewing this as the way we interpret it,
we are not able to utilize these resources in our LMS and they are really for personal use only.
Our computer course is where we are struggling to find usable and sustainable OER as well.

I wanted to chime in and say that I contacted GCF a few years back when we were creating a course with their content (links out),
and they were okay with that as well as embedding the practice documents into the course. Their terms of use may have changed since then.
I’d suggest reaching out to them and seeing if you can get permission if it’s needed for the way you intend to use their content in class.

I also teach this course. I use the following resources:
Business Computers 365 by Marcus Lacher is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
Microsoft Office Training and Tutorials:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/training?redirectsourcepath=%252fen-us%252farticle%252foffice-training-and-tutorials-b8f02f81-ec85-4493-a39b-4c48e6bc4bfb
Learnfree.org - which was already mentioned.
They have practice exercises that you can download for free - not open - like others have said, but free to use.
Beginning Excel from Open Oregon:
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/beginningexcel/front-matter/introduction/
Computer Applications from Lumen Learning:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/zeliite115/
Computer Applications for Managers:
https://lumenlearning.com/courses/computer-applications-for-managers/
LibGuide from Tacoma CC with some great resources:
https://tacomacc.libguides.com/oer_computers

Excel for Mac Users

Hi all, has anyone created OER on Excel for Mac users?

There are two good resources I'm aware of, but neither is Mac-specific:
Lumen: https://lumenlearning.com/courses/computer-applications-for-managers/
GCF Global (free but not open): https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/subjects/office/ .
I use Office on a Mac, and, to me, the applications aren't different enough to have a separate course. When I teach the office apps, I try to focus on concepts rather than a specific user interface, so students could use any version of Office, or even Google Apps or LibreOffice, if they prefer.
There is one other really good resource specifically for Excel:
Excel Easy (free but not open): https://www.excel-easy.com/

Information Systems

Can anyone recommend good introductory Information Systems textbooks?
I am looking for alternatives to this one:
Introduction to Information Systems (7th edition) Australia and New Zealand Edition.
R. Kelly Rainer & Brad Prince, Wiley, 2019
Which is used for our INFO101 course here in New Zealand. I have identified these so far:

Pham, L., Desai-Naik, T., Hammond, L., Abdeljabbar, W. & Albrecht, R. (2021). Information Systems for Business. https://workforce.libretexts.org/@go/page/9741
This is an updated & revised edition of Bourgeois (below)
Bourgeois, D. T., Smith, J. L., Wang, S., & Mortati, J. (2019). Information systems for business and beyond. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/information-systems-for-business-and-beyond
15 reviews here https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/information-systems-for-business-and-beyond#Reviews
(c2015). Information systems: A Manager's guide to harnessing technology. University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. https://open.lib.umn.edu/informationsystems/
6 reviews here https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/information-systems-a-manager-s-guide-to-harnessing-technology#Reviews
Felvegi, E. (2019). Foundations of Management Information Systems. https://www.oercommons.org/courses/foundations-of-management-information-systems
Felvegi, E., Lave, B., Shingledecker, D., Romey, J., Brown, N., & Schatz, M. (2019). Business Computer Information Systems. https://www.oercommons.org/courses/business-computer-information-systems/view

Judith Thomas just shared this new text release earlier today that might fit your class.
Introduction to Text Analysis: A Coursebook Authors: Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia) and Sarah Horowitz (Washington and Lee University)
I’ve also found these:
Information Systems: No Boundaries
A Tale of Two Systems

I am working with two other faculty in Ontario to adapt a few IS resources primarily the one by David Bourgeois, as well as a Lumen Learning course
and this book Maritime Management - Micro and Small Business for a Canadian audience. We are building the book in Pressbooks, and are including H5P as well as slides. The book should be available by the end of November. We have added new chapters for Decision Support, Emerging Technology and eBusiness. The structure of the book is:
Ch1: Introduction to Info Systems
Ch2: Business Strategy
Ch3: Hardware
Ch4: Software
Ch5: Data
Ch6: Networks
Ch7: Systems Development
Ch8: Security
Ch9: Issues – Canadian perspective
Chp10:e-business
Chp11: Business Process and Enterprise Solutions
Chp12: Decision Support/Business Intelligence
Chp13: Emerging Technology (A.I.)--

Introduction to Computer Systems

Hello All! Our university offers a general education course called Introduction to Computer Systems. The instructors have developed many materials themselves, but they also relying a commercial text (customized) for part of the course content.

Here at Palo Alto College we use two sources to cover the introductory computer classes.

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/ is used for the Application Software

http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Information%20Systems%20for%20Business%20and%20Beyond.pdf is used for the rest.

gclearnfree.org appears to be a good resource, but keep in mind that while it is free it is not open (i.e., it is not OER). If you find something similar that is open please do share with the group.

Hi Julee, a couple of solutions at Oregon community colleges:

Computer Fundamentals - In this course, students will learn basic Microsoft Windows 10 Operating Systems skills (including Core PC Hardware Components, Graphical User Interface, Local and Cloud File Management, Applications, Internet Browsers, Security, and key System Utilities), Google Email, Contacts, Calendar, and Drive applications, as well as introduction to Word Processing, Spreadsheet and Presentation applications. Additionally, students will learn to create and convert documents between different format (Microsoft and Google apps). Moodle course: http://elearning.linnbenton.edu/course/view.php?id=3130

Computer Literacy complete course is available via Moodle. From the link below, select CS120, then log in as guest to access the course. Course description: Students in this course will study computers and their applications (note: this is not a "first" or "beginning" computer course). Student will develop an understanding of concepts and terminology related to computer systems and develop skills and understanding in the use of software. Concepts include an overview of computer systems, system & applications software, networks, the Internet, and societal & ethical issues. Hands-on experience may include intermediate to advanced word processing, spreadsheets, database, graphics, presentation graphics, and web publishing. http://math.bluecc.edu/moodle/

The CS160 reader is a Creative Commons licensed resource used at Chemeketa Community College in Computer Science 160. It aligns closely to the topics covered in the new AP Computer Science Principles course. http://computerscience.chemeketa.edu/cs160Reader/

Introduction to the Internet

A faculty member is looking to replace the textbook she uses for her Introduction to the Internet class.
In this class they cover topics that include: internet browser basics, email communication, search engines, internet & wireless networking security (basics),
creating HTML documents, internet communication tools, social networking tools, and guidelines for conduct online.
I’ve shared with her the two courses I discovered from OpenOregon’s list of resources.

Please see https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Internet_Fundamentals .
The course is based on the CIW Internet Business Associate certification and is used by Google Search as the definition of Internet fundamentals.
We have had multiple instructors using this resource successfully for several years now.
Faculty members are welcome to contact me with any questions or requests for test banks, etc.--

Microsoft Office

Since this post is a few years old, I'm wondering if any OER have since been developed. Looking for interactive simulations for Microsoft Office/computer basics.

There are some course shells and other materials created by Oregon instructors that you can check out here: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=microsoft

Criminal Justice and Law

Criminology

I am looking for some OER criminology sources that focus on theories of crime, methodological approaches, and major categories.
I have found some but I feel like I am going in circles on some of it. Does anyone have any links or resources they would be willing to share?

MERLOT has a category of Criminal Justice. This is further categorized in a number of areas:
Corrections (45) Courts (15) Crime and Communites (18) Crime (61) Drugs (14) Forensics (117) Intelligence (36) Justice System (44) Juvenile Justice (17) Law & Society (71) Law Enforcement (83) Victims (21)
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2789&hasAwards=false&hasComments=false&hasCourses=false&filterTypesOpen=false&dateRange=0&hasEtextReviews=false&isLeadershipLibrary=false&hasCollections=false&filterOtherOpen=false&isContentBuilder=false&filterSubjectsOpen=true&hasAccessibilityForm=false&hasPeerReviews=false&hasAssignments=false&filterPartnerAffiliationsOpen=true&hasRatings=false&hasSercActivitySheets=false&days=7&filterMobileOpen=false&sort.property=overallRating&hasEditorReviews=false&page=1--

I’ve been asked by a teaching colleague to find OER related to an introduction to forensics course. Any resources that can be identified are appreciated.

Hi Peter, there is an Open Textbook Library book used by some CC faculty:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introduction-to-logic-and-critical-thinking
Another one by Pressbooks is:
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-in-credible-argument-crafting-and-analyzing-arguments-in-college/view
Another one by Windsor Studies in Argumentation:
https://windsor.scholarsportal.info/omp/index.php/wsia/catalog/book/9
Some other resources to consider:
https://secure.hosting.vt.edu/www.logic.phil.vt.edu/
https://libguides.valdosta.edu/c.php?g=275668&p=1837722
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/argument-critical-thinking/view
https://dc.uwm.edu/phil_facbooks/1/
Also, the Academic Senate for California Community College OER Initiative is funding two books on Argumentation that should be out by February 2020.

Criminal Justice

We have one CJ text in our collection at BCcampus: https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=03897e9e-cb62-40ed-aecc-feef5caae9d2&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Criminology

It was created here in BC so may have some Canadian content you'd need to modify.

I have authored two low-cost CJ titles which I use for four classes: Criminal Law, Criminal Court Process, Criminal Evidence, and Constitutional Law. The ebook costs $39, so this totals around $20/class. I authored these two textbooks because I had no choice. There is little to no CJ OER.

Both titles are here. Please let me know if you have any questions!

I’m currently working on creating the following OER courses at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, NY. I was wondering if others could possibly point me in the right direction for the following OER course materials:
1) Criminal Justice Ethics or Ethics Related Materials
2) Juvenile Delinquency Materials
3) Internship Related Materials

I was just talking to the Director of Library Services at Houston Community Colleges and she had shared their “Criminal Justice” OER Libguide with me. There are some great resources in here and I hope that is helpful.
http://library.hccs.edu/c.php?g=330798&p=5623923

There’s this BC Campus textbook on Ethics in Law Enforcement: https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=03897e9e-cb62-40ed-aecc-feef5caae9d2&contributor=&keyword=&subject
I have found ethics case studies through the Merlot search before. Some good ones on corporate/business ethics, but not always open.

I have a faculty member who is looking for OER materials for a Homeland Security course. He'd prefer to use an OER textbook, but if any of you know of resources that you can steer us too, that would be very helpful.
I use two Affordable Educational Resources in criminal justice that I authored ($39.99) for four courses. Perhaps he could use one of my textbooks and supplement with OER? That is what I do.

I would be happy to work with him on this issue.
My textbook information is here.

We are moving our A.A.S. in Criminal Justice to a Z Degree and have faculty working on moving all of the courses to OER ($0 cost). This may be an opportunity for us to share what we have both already accomplished.
Please feel free to email me directly at the address listed below.
Linda S. Williams, MBA, MSA
Professor, Business Administration
Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake
lswilliams@tcc.edu

We are beginning to investigate OER possibilities at our institution. We have a faculty member who would like a OER text for his Introduction to Criminal Justice course. Searching various repositories like MERLOT, Opentextbook and Openstax
gives us OER text options for Criminal Law and Introduction to Criminal Investigation. We are having a hard time locating an Intro level text for Criminal Justice.
Any suggestions would be really helpful.

The Justice Institute of BC in Vancouver, Canada is also interested in Criminal Justice books.
We are just over halfway to developing a Zed Cred in our Law Enforcement Studies Diploma (very similar to a Criminology diploma).
We haven't had much luck locating OER or open texts for Criminology subjects either so have used our SMEs and instructors to develop our own that we'd love to share.
We've authored an Intro to Criminal Investigation book and a Law Enforcement Ethics book with a Law Enforcement Communications book currently in development.
We are also in the early stages of locating collaborators on books for the following courses: Introduction to Canadian Criminal Justice System,
Introduction to Criminology and Introduction to Canadian Criminal Law.
I'm not sure that the Canadian context will help you out, but there may be crossover and some pieces that could be adapted for the US context.
I'd be happy to be in touch with you once we're further along and I have more info.

We are in the process of developing a ZTC degree for our Administration of Justice degree. We would be happy to collaborate with you on bringing OER to this field of study. (Dan Hall from Taft College)

I have a Criminal Justice faculty member interested in creating an OER textbook on Corrections. This is to replace the print textbook: Hanser, Robert D. Introduction to Corrections (3rd ed. Edition). January 2019. Sage Publications. ISBN 9781544339078.

Just based on the contents I wonder if this text might be useful: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/ccj230/

I am working with an Instructional Designer who is preparing an online course for corrections workers (could be officers or outside contractors such as nurses, plumbers, etc. who work in prisons). She is seeking OER materials on the following topics. We’ve found some resources via MERLOT but are wondering if anyone is aware of additional open resources in these areas, particularly videos, simulations, or other interactive objects.
Correctional Role Expectations
Cross Cultural Relations (specifically culture, prejudice, discrimination)
Ethics and Professionalism
Communication Skills (and simulation videos of de-escalation techniques)
Workplace Violence

We have a Criminal Justice area in MERLOT. Here is the link: https://tinyurl.com/y5nwuesy

This goes to the criminal justice listing with the following sub-categories on the left. She could search these individual topics to find materials. The numbers in parentheses are the number of resources in each category.
Corrections (45)
Courts (15)
Crime and Communites (18)
Crime (62)
Drugs (14)
Forensics (115)
Intelligence (36)
Justice System (45)
Juvenile Justice (17)
Law & Society (67)
Law Enforcement (83)
Victims (21)

We have a faculty member starting an online class entitled Probation and Parole.
She is having a hard time finding an open source book.
It could be part of a larger text on community corrections but the focus is on probation and parole.

Here are a few resources:

https://cool4ed.calstate.edu/handle/10211.3/216013 (Probation, CH 4.1; Parole, CH 4.3)
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/ccj230/chapter/9-11-parole/
https://opentextbooks.uregina.ca/decolonizingjustice/chapter/decolonizing-mental-health-services-in-prisons
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/ccj230/chapter/9-3-probation/
https://open.lib.umn.edu/criminallaw/chapter/1-5-the-purposes-of-punishment/

Find additional OER titles at our ADMJ OER by Subject Guide: https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/oersbysubject/admj

From MERLOT:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)

From MERLOT Smart Search:
Other Libraries (merlot.org)
The Web (merlot.org)

I'm working with a CJ professor to find OER textbooks for two courses: Intro to Corrections and Juvenile Justice.
Any suggestions are welcome.

You may find what you are looking for in our Corrections and Criminal Justice bookshelf:
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Corrections

We have a few CJ programs across FL and our libraries have pulled together resources,
which you can scan for useful OER: (may also include state, national, and library resources)
https://irsc.libguides.com/openeducationalresources/criminaljustice
https://libguides.uwf.edu/c.php?g=215123&p=1420538
Professor at UNF created or adapted a Zero cost resource for Juvenile Justice course,
but I can not locate the resource listing. If you contact she may share what she is using.
Brown, Samantha. Title: Assistant Professor. Email: samantha.brown@unf
https://louis.oercommons.org/curated-collections/132
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/ccj230/

Can you all give some ideas of some great OER Books that you are using for Criminal Justice at the freshman and sophomore level. Some of the courses we are teaching at our college include:
CRIJ 1301 Introduction to Criminal Justice
CRIJ 1306 Court Systems and Practices CAPSTONE
CRIJ 1307 Crime in America
CRIJ 1310 Fundamentals of Criminal Law
CRIJ 1313 Juvenile Justice System
CRIJ 2301 Community Resources in Corrections
CRIJ 2313 Correctional Systems and Practices
CRIJ 2314 Criminal Investigation
CRIJ 2323 Legal Aspects of Law Enforcement
CRIJ 2328 Police Systems and Practices

Here's a link to our curated collection -
Open Educational Resources and Administration of Justice
It's organized by descriptors - which you can access to find out what each course is all about.

Forensic Science

I have a professor attempting to put together a proposal for an Introduction to Forensic Science course and is hoping for some OER to include.
I've searched through the regular channels and found a few things (a chapter from BC Campus' Intro to Criminal Investigation
text, a chapter from OpenStax Biology) but I'm wondering if anyone knows of a text or full course which they could share?

There are a couple of resources used at Lane Community College that might help:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Forensic

Law
A professor is looking for textbooks and other resources for two law courses: Business Law and Law & Society (Constitutional Law, court procedures, civil & criminal law and public policy). We are aware of the Saylor textbooks, but she was not happy with them. Can anyone provide some suggestions?
I have authored low-cost resources in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure ($39.99). Both textbooks come with all course materials like PPT, lecture notes, quizzes, exams, discussion topics, and accessible (captioned) video lectures. Criminal Procedure By Storm can be supplemented with OER and used for Criminal Evidence and Constitutional Law

Hello, all. I will be meeting with faculty in the Fire Science, Mortuary science, and Law Enforcement programs on my campus tomorrow to discuss OER. Does anyone know of resources for these programs. I searched skillscommons but got one result in fire science. Thanks for any leads.
Within the Criminal Justice topic there are resources under Law Enforcement (83)

https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2800&hasAwards=false&hasComments=false&hasCourses=false&filterTypesOpen=false&dateRange=0&hasEtextReviews=false&isLeadershipLibrary=false&hasCollections=false&filterOtherOpen=false&isContentBuilder=false&filterSubjectsOpen=true&hasAccessibilityForm=false&hasPeerReviews=false&hasAssignments=false&filterPartnerAffiliationsOpen=true&hasRatings=false&hasSercActivitySheets=false&days=7&filterMobileOpen=false&sort.property=overallRating&hasEditorReviews=false&page=1

I have an instructor looking for an open source textbook for Litigation Procedures?

That's an incredibly broad topic. There are business law books and there are remixing possibilities. Could your colleague narrow it down a bit. Till then have a look at
https://biz.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Law and
https://www.oercommons.org/curated-collections/405 and there are some open case books out there for law school students
https://about.opencasebook.org/blog/

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has produced a large number of free & openly licensed law books that might be of interest:

https://www.cali.org/the-elangdell-bookstore
Harvard also has an open casebook project: https://opencasebook.org/search/ . It looks like there's at least one casebook there with materials for complex litigation:

https://opencasebook.org/casebooks/378-lahav-complex-litigation-materials/

Paralegal

The folks who run our paralegal associate’s degree program have made the decision that they’d like to convert all courses in the program
to a zero-cost textbook model, with the intention of leaning heavily on OERs.
I’ve done a bit of looking in the usual places and haven’t come up with many quality/current resources for them to use. I’m wondering:
1. Are there any other paralegal programs that have made a similar transition? Care to share your experience?
2. Any suggestions on where to go to broaden my search? Any recommendations for specific resources?

Cornell has a good site ( LII / Legal Information Institute (cornell.edu) ) that we leverage in our paralegal courses, as well as Oyez .
We also subscribe to CALI ( Home | CALI), which has affordable lesson content. LawShelf.com is another resource.
We also try and use the free Bluebook citation information they provide online, but some of our courses require the full book.

CTE

Advanced Digital Cinematography
The semester has begun and things are moving at lightening speed! One of instructors has been asked to teach a new class (for her) and is in need of material. Here is the course description: Advanced Digital Cinematography The course examines both traditional and digital cinematography techniques in the context of video production and digital cinematography for independent narrative film, television and commercial production. Students will demonstrate advanced skill in the creation of video using accepted techniques and skill in cinematography with an emphasis on format, lenses, lighting, exposure control and safety. The only thing I have that may be close is The Film Experience– that I’ve gotten from this awesome group.

There might be materials your faculty could draw from in the Open SUNY Textbook Exploring Movie Construction and Production.

Audio/Radio Production
I have a request from one of our faculty members:
" I have a question about OER — I’m not sure where to start. I’m looking to see if I can find an audio production/radio production textbook that doesn’t cost $100-200. It’s a fairly specialized subject and so I realize that I may be out of luck — but I don’t know how to search for this! There seems to be a lot of different OER repositories — what’s my best first step?"
Perhaps your colleague can find a good textbook in this article
If the faculty member is looking for cost savings, and not 5R compatible material you might try BookBoon. It's not OER, but it would be a free book.
http://bookboon.com/en/professional-audio-and-video-ebook
This is what's being used for an audio production course at Lane Community College: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Prt7_zdg0ic1FxZUJIcGxBNDg

Automotive
Hi all,
I have an instructor looking for leads on open course materials for an automotive program. I'm pasting below what I've found so far. Any more suggestions that I can pass along? I'll share back to the list.
Thanks! Amy

One org that is putting out a lot of resources, including entire courses, under open licenses, is Macomb Community College. You can search or browse their resource library here: http://autocaat.org/Resource_Library/ . There are a ton of resources in the library so I recommend using specific keywords associated with your courses or learning objectives to sort through.

There are three open automotive courses put out by the Butte County Office of Education that may be relevant: https://www.cteonline.org/curriculum/browse?st=&f%5B_type%5D%5B%5D=curriculum_outline&f%5Battributes_by_type.cte-industries-ca-2013%5D%5B%5D=17787
Last, the TAACCCT grant archive has a lot of "stuff" when you search on automotive as a keyword: https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=automotive A word of warning about this site - some of what you find here is useless - for example, a document that describes what they are going to build rather than actual course materials. However, it is the archive of record for CTE and if you dig with specific keywords there is useful content

I have an auto instructor who is interested in offering OER texts for two of his auto courses. I have provided the description of the courses below. Has anyone found a wonderful OER in this area?
Thank you for your time,

Hi Alison,
My first thought for anything trades-related, such as the courses listed here, is SkillsCommons (https://www.skillscommons.org/browse?type=industry). It does appear they have categories that would be relevant, though I don't know how in-depth any of them are.

I am looking for video or interactive OER content that would explain the basics of the following topics (e.g. how they work, terminology, etc).
Belt Drives, Chain Drives, Clutches/Brakes, Couplings & U-Joints
I’ve explored Wisc-Online and Khan Academy without luck. Are there any other sources you would recommend?

You might have luck on Youtube with old "manual arts" training films.

I have a faculty member who teaches in our Diesel Tech program (we're a community and technical college); he was wondering what sorts of OER are out there for him to utilize. I think I've seen links to repositories (?), and maybe I have them saved somewhere, but I thought I'd throw out an email to see what you all have, too. TIA.

Skills Commons has a number of resources in this field: http://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=diesel+tech

I found this one: https://archive.org/details/automotivetechno0000unse

I'm looking for recommendations for OER to use in a community college Automotive Technology class. The current textbook is:
Automotive Technology: Principles, Diagnosis & Serv 6Th Ed.
Halderman
ISBN 9780135257272
I've done some searching in the usual places and am not having much luck. Hoping you all might be able to point me to some hidden gems!

I don't know of any open textbooks, but here are a few other open resources that can serve as a starting point for you:
My CTE Story / Automotive Technology (Vimeo) from SC CTE
Student-generated lab demo videos (assignment description) from Montana State Univ-Northern Faculty in OER Commons
Related lab video playlist
Using Micrometers (lab & lesson) from Donavan Phoenix on OER Commons
Small Engine Safety (courseware) from Ashton Bohling in OER Commons
I also recommend searching through what is available on SkillsCommons, as many CTE resources are shared there specifically. You'll want to filter your search by type of material, or search for a specific topic to narrow your results. For example, I was able to find this gem by looking at :
AMT 172 - HEV II Hybrid and Electric Vehicle: Preventative Maintenance and Repair: Contains a ZIP file with worksheets, lesson plans, lecture notes, and more!
This is from the Rural Hawaii Community Colleges Workforce Development program, who deserves kudos for their excellent work across the board!
For cases like this, I highly recommend searching for module-level content that matches the Table of Contents from the original material and/or the weekly assignments in the course proper. A course packet made up of a mix of existing OER, instructor-provided materials, and library resources can often be a good jumping off point for a larger change down the line. If you can't find enough resources to fulfill the instructors' needs now, they can test out using some OER as additional study materials for students and check back later for new resources that have become available.

Cosmetology
I have some colleges that are currently using Cengage for their cosmetology courses.
Cengage is moving from MindTap to CIMA, and the colleges are running into several issues with CIMA.
We are now looking for Cosmetology OER courses or textbooks that do not use Cengage or CIMA.
Does anyone have any recommendations for resources in this subject?

MERLOT has a number of resources listed:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)
Here are a few resources from SkillsCommons:
Search - SkillsCommons Repository

Cullinary Arts

Does anybody know of Culinary Safety and Sanitation OER textbooks? I found the one on BCCampus but the culinary faculty said it doesn’t have quite enough information for them. Anything even tangentially related would be deeply appreciated.

These materials, created by culinary arts faculty at the Chef John Folse Culinary Institute at Nicholls State University, aren’t focused on safety/sanitation. But, perhaps your faculty can find some pieces that are useful:
Culinary Foundations: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/96-culinary-foundations
Garde Manger: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/127-garde-manger-a-guide-to-the-cold-kitchen
Introduction to Baking and Pastries: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/85-introduction-to-baking-and-pastries
Meat Identification and Fabrication: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/88-meat-identification-and-fabrication
Flavors of the Saucier: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/95-flavors-of-the-saucier-stocks-sauces-and-soups
Fruits, Vegetables, and Farinaceous Products: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/87-fruits-vegetables-farinaceous-products
Sophomore Internship: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/169-cula-241-sophomore-internship
Senior Internship: https://louis.oercommons.org/authoring/171-cula-495-senior-internship
There’s also this resource from the FDA: Bad Bug Book Handbook of Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms and Natural Toxins: https://www.fda.gov/media/83271/download

In addition to the resources Emily shared, faculty members in Central California worked on creating ZTC CTE
courses last year for a regional project – a few of these were related to hospitality and culinary arts.
These are available in Canvas Commons if you search for “mother lode” in the search bar or by clicking on the links below:
Safety & Sanitation
Intro to Commercial Baking
Culinary Production & Operation
Hospitality Cost Control
Hospitality Laws

a couple more for tourism: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=tourism

Does anybody know of or currently have a fully ZTC Culinary Associate's degree program at your California Community College?
Cayuga Community College in New York State has a Culinary Arts program. Any OERs your school would like to share would be wonderful.
I'd love to have our Chef take a look at the materials. Materials with recipes for multicultural foods are also welcomed!

Consumnes River College in Sacramento, CA, has a ZTC Culinary Arts degree. They have videos and texts.
I'm including the dept chair's info and also in the cc.
They produced an entire video collection and text content. My understanding is that the program is fully ZTC.
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@CRCCulinary
Dept. Chair: Dave Andrews
andrewd@crc.losrios.edu

Add to the conversation, we have a lot of OER resources ready for remixing on our workforce library:
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Food_Production_Service_and_Culinary_Arts

I hope this message finds you all well. We are looking for OER resources in the area of Culinary Arts at the collegiate level. Any resources would be appreciated. Thanks!

You may found this bookshelf of our workforce library useful:
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Food_Production_Service_and_Culinary_Arts

A culinary arts professor recently asked me to find an open book for her beverage management class, if such a book exists.
The class begins next week, and students will be learning bar management, how to do inventory of liquor and wines/spirits,
general knowledge of mixed drinks and wines, making an employee schedule and learning the local and federal laws of alcohol sales and service.

We have something that may be a basis to start with (although it is more science related).
https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Biological_Chemistry/Fermentation_in_Food_Chemistry_(Graham)
If you come across other OER that fit your needs, please let us know and we can harvest them into our LibreTexts corpus to quickly get you a functioning text.

I tend to be leery of the licensing notification of resources in the Internet Archive (I always confirm with the author),
but there are some OER.OER-ish content that may also be useful to you in building a new remix (probably need updating):
https://archive.org/details/BartendingCourse (we could bring in the questions into our ADAPT homework system for ya)
https://archive.org/details/MyMixologyPreviewCopy2ndEdition38/page/n37/mode/2up (Martin Kimeldorf appeared to have placed his book in play (under CC BY-SA-ND license)
https://archive.org/details/vintage-cocktail-books-euvs/1807-l-art-de-composer-facilement-et-a-peu-de-frais-les-liqueurs-de-table.pdf

I am working with an individual at our institution that is looking for OER resources that include definitions of terms and concepts
related to the principles and processes of baking and cooking.
Some examples of terms that would be helpful to have included are as follows: seasoning, mixing, boiling and baking.
Help in locating appropriate resources to recommend would be much appreciated!

Well, these might be of some use. I put them together for my kids as they prepared to leave the nest.
Cook Like Dad:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DSYWyKqPGNsVnHiiiRLtm-CZaGVLu0WanY2LZQBo8o8/edit?usp=sharing
Herbs and Spices and Stuff, Oh My!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Xn6Lp5M-PcHTkhP_xqiRxYXoOYBT3iopcY3L_vbjZ4/edit?usp=sharing

Our culinary faculty created a series of videos on YouTube that are licensed CC BY 4.0,
which may be useful: Foundational Cooking Methods with Michael Frigm

Dental Hygiene
Dental Hygiene is one of the most expensive programs on our campus due, in part, to the fact that students have to buy their own instruments and scrubs on top of their textbooks.
The head of the department is excited about the possibility of using open textbooks, but so far my search has turned up little besides a few study tools or case studies. Is anyone aware of open textbooks for the following:
Dental Radiology
Oral Histology and Embryology
Head and Neck Anatomy
Periodontology
Pharmacology
Local Anesthesia and Pain Control

I just thought I'd write to say that this question has come up a few times on the list and hasn't been answered (sorry to get your hopes up with a reply).
There are some hits in the Skills Commons repository: https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=Dental+Hygiene . But, be forewarned, the content there can be confusing in my opinion. Some of what's there is more of a stub or course description, rather than usable teaching materials.
This might be an area where you'd need to work with library acquisitions to see about getting access to relevant ebooks with appropriate licenses as an affordability solution until the open content you need is available.

We've looked in this subject area, too. I am attaching the spreadsheet I came up with for our faculty for dental hygiene. I'm also attaching a spreadsheet for pharmacology.
OER/DHY OER Selection Spreadsheet.xlsx
OER/HIMT 1141 Pharmacology OER.xlsx
Rachel Dilley, MLIS

I'm looking for some OER on dental office administration. Basic tooth anatomy, and common office procedures.

Portions of these CC-BY-SA community oral health education booklets might be helpful.
Oral Health Education (4 booklets)
image collection

Carpentry and Construction
I have faculty looking for open ed materials on carpentry and construction and am coming up with nothing. I have exhausted the normal channels.

Repositories
· SkillsCommons
· BCcampus Trades Textbooks
· BCOE CTE Center (Specifically Wood Technology 1 & 2 https://www.oercommons.org/courses/wood-technology-1-and-2-model/view )
Books
Rutherford, C. (2018). Building Maintenance & Construction – Tools and Maintenance Tasks (CC BY 4.0). An interactive textbook that can be accessed online or downloaded. http://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/buildingmaint/

Electrical Trade

I am working with an instructor in our electrical trades program at Central New Mexico Community College, and she would like to find OER materials for her courses (but we fear they do not exist). Topics that her courses cover include the following:
Electrical trades, journeyman electrician, NEC code, AC/DC circuits, series circuits, parallel circuits, inductance, capacitance, transformers, electrical installations, load calculations, ampacity, voltage drop, pipefill, boxfill....
Does anyone have leads for where to find and adapt OER materials that cover topics like this at a college freshman reading level? I appreciate any tips or guidance. Thank you.

Hi Jennifer, one place you might begin to search is the SkillsCommons website, many trades courses and course materials created as part of the U.S. Dept. of Labour TACCT grants. Give it a go!
https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=electrical

Another resource besides the one recommended earlier by Jenni is.
Check out BCcampus's 23 Common Core Trades books that might have some of what you are looking for.
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Common%20Core
Springer also has some open access journals on electrical engineering, etc. that you may want to check out.
https://www.springeropen.com/p/engineering/electrical-engineering

Jim Pytel at Columbia Gorge Community College has some materials that you might find useful:
Basic Electronics 1: DC Circuit Analysis playlist (54 free online lectures): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdnqjKaksr8qQ9w3XY5zFXQ2H-zXQFMlI
Electrically Controlled Systems playlist (50+ free online lectures): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdnqjKaksr8qRPCFkU2Q8XQe0bfo99rs6
Hydraulics and Electrical Control of Hydraulic Systems: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/hydraulics

I’m looking for materials for the following courses:
MMCTC-370 Fundamentals of Welding & Machine Shop
MMCTC-371 Fundamentals of Hydraulics and Pneumatics
MMCTC-372 Electrical Fundamentals

Our welding department was able to work out an agreement with one of the welding equipment manufacturers to distribute their product user guide as a course textbook. The content isn't open, but it is free for our students.
Contact Kurt Billsten (kbillste@harpercollege.edu ) for more information.

In addition to the resources Michaela shared, here are a few others in use in Oregon:
- For hydraulics: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Hydraulics
- For electronics: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=electronics (is this the same as electrical?)

I am seeking OER resources for an instructor who is teaching electric motors, 3 phase induction motors, 3 phase electrical power,
electrical transformer, electric motor drives, variable speed drive, and variable frequency drives.
The courses the content will be used in are Industrial Electronics coursesEEM-211 AC Machines
EEM-221 DC/AC Drives

There are several resources in our workforce library that look like they can help you:
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Electronics_Technology

Here's a list of related resources used in Oregon that you may want to browse through:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=electri
And another couple that didn't match that search string: Troubleshooting motors and controls, All About Circuits, Vol.1: Direct Current (DC)

I am enjoying the exchange of ideas in the group. Now, it's my turn to ask for help. I'm in unfamiliar territory...
I am looking for OER materials for an Electrician program. Currently,
students use a Pearson product for study and prep for a certification test through
NCCER (National Center for Construction Education & Research).
The instructors would like to explore open textbooks and possibly a different certification exam.
What have you found to be the best sources for OER resources in career/technical programs?
Course list for Technical Diploma in Electrician
ELEC 1120 Basic Electricity
ELEC 1210 Residential Wiring
Elec 1330 Generators/Motors & Transformers
ELEC 1420 Intro to Motor Controls
ELEC 1440 Motor Controls
ELEC 2520 Solid State Theory
Elec 2540 Logic Functions
ELEC 2720 Intro to Programmable Logic

A faculty member at College of DuPage wrote a textbook titled Fundamentals of Electricity (CC BY-NC-
SA) in 2021. You can find it indexed in OER Commons or all documents linked in a Google folder.

EMT
Does anyone have suggestions for OER texts for Emergency Medical Responder or Emergency Medical Technician courses?
https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=%22emergency+medical+technician%22 provides a directory of OER links, including a few that link to full courses.

Besides the Skills Commons resources, did you end up finding anything for the EMT courses? I have a faculty member looking for something similar and I had pointing him to SkillsCommons as well but am wondering if there is anything else out there that we could also consider.

Hi Sarah and all, I put out a similar question last week. Here's the roundup of responses, with thanks to everyone who offered suggestions:

- Syllabus for a course at LB that uses Learning Express Library materials for a CMA course
- Health Case Studies
- Improving Understanding and Collaboration Among First Responders
- Wikibook for EMT Basics: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/EMT-Basic/Preparatory/Introduction
- Emergency responder open courses in MERLOT: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=Emergency+Medical+Responder&sort.property=relevance
- https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=emergency+medical
- https://openstax.org/blog/saving-lives-alaska-openstax-and-open-resources?utm_source=Pardot&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=March+News+2019
- https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=emergency+medical&sort.property=relevance&btn_2=Search
- Life in the Fast Lane FOAM site
- Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
- FOAM and Critical Care
- https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=%22emergency+medical+technician%22

Engines (Small)
I am searching for content related to small engines. Specifically 2 and 4 stroke theory, engine parts ID, different styles/kinds of engines.
The faculty are looking to fill the gap of a book that is being discontinued.
Now I have already done a shallow dive through the usual spaces and repositories and sent that off to the requesting faculty.
I am wondering if anyone has leads on more comprehensive materials besides proprietary schematics and assorted classroom offerings.

There are a lot of materials in Skill Commons, a partner of MERLOT. Here is a direct link to them:
Search - SkillsCommons Repository

Fire Science
Our Fire Technology program faculty are interested in moving to OER. I’m having a hard time finding any resources. Does anyone know of Fire programs that are Zero Cost or use OER?
The closest thing I could find is something like this:
Improving Understanding and Collaboration Among First Responders: This unique training addresses the institutional culture of five responder groups: law enforcement, EMS, fire, public health, and private security in an attempt at fostering understanding among these groups.
But they are looking for more on Fire Prevention Technology, Fire Protection Equipment and Systems, Building Construction for Fire Protection, etc.

MERLOT has a category of Fire Safety and has a number of different materials there that may be helpful:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)

Food Science
I have an instructor that is looking for a textbook on industrial food science and technology, not culinary. Any suggestions?
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/chemistry-of-cooking
This is worth a look, though it might not be exactly on-point.

Horticulture
We have been looking for OER options for our Horticulture Dept. ... ironically, so far it’s been a “fruitless” search J
Would anyone here know of any materials that might fit the bill? General Horticulture or beyond?

I searched MERLOT for Horticulture and came up with these 19 resources:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=horticulture&sort.property=relevance
I also used MERLOT Smart Search and came up with these at other digital libraries:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/otherCollectionsHitlist.htm?keywords=horticulture&discipline=&page=1
And several other academic-related resources on the web:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/webHitlist.htm?keywords=horticulture&discipline=&page=1

There were many courses created during the TAACCT grants. Check out https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=horticulture

Also, I was the instructional designer for the courses created by Triton College. Most of the content is available, videos, readings and assessments. I hope you find them useful. I believe College of Lake County also created some.

HVACR Resources

I am assisting a faculty member who is redesigning his course so students do not have to buy a book. Do any of you know about any resources that cover HVACR (Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration)? He really wants to help his students out so they do not have to buy a book.

Our program includes both a 9-month residential/light commercial certificate as well as a 2-yr AAS addressing commercial HVAC service, maintenance, and operation. We teach both new students just entering the field as service technicians and/or installers as well as providing upgrade training for long-time technicians. I primarily use manuals and data from the websites of the manufacturer and/or manufacturer reps to address service, maintenance, and operations. It is far superior to any textbook since it is material addressed by the industry, not an academician, thus the student is more accepting of what is being taught. Not all of what I list below is 100% useful, but I use elements of virtually everything on this list and more.
All About Circuits
https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/
Copper, Soldering, Brazing
https://www.copper.org/publications/pub_list/soldering.html
http://www.wes.ir/files/3686573BrazingHandbook.pdf
https://archive.org/details/Soldering_Brazing_Welding-A_Manual_of_Techniques_D._Pritchard
https://www.copper.org/publications/pub_list/pdf/copper_tube_handbook.pdf
ECM Motors
https://www.genteqmotors.com/assets/0/96/101/111/112/222548e1-3a94-4465-ae93-3ac96782fea5.pdf
https://www.genteqmotors.com/assets/0/96/101/111/112/4c713fab-2d3f-465e-bfb1-94fa5e0d052a.pdf
https://www.priceindustries.com/content/uploads/assets/literature/manuals/section%20g/ecm-motor-troubleshooting-manual.pdf
Induction Motors
http://www.fasco.com/distribution/fasco-motor-facts/fasco-facs-english/
http://css.wsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Motors1.pdf
https://new.abb.com/docs/librariesprovider53/about-downloads/low-voltage-motor-guide.pdf
VFDs
https://customer.honeywell.com/resources/techlit/TechLitDocuments/63-0000s/63-7062.pdf
I've not found a good generic resource on drives including the one listed above. I prefer to use the drive manuals that come with the VFDs with which I teach. We have Automation Direct GS1 and GS2 drives as well as ABB HVAC drives used to operate our pumps and our Air Handling Unit.
https://cdn.automationdirect.com/static/manuals/gs1m/gs1m.html
https://cdn.automationdirect.com/static/manuals/gs2m/gs2m.html
https://library.e.abb.com/public/debb3e43999f4e55c1257d0b00267491/EN_ACH550_01_UM_G_A4.pdf
Control (I teach control using the Tridium JACE 6 and JACE 8000)
- I have written my own fundamentals of control for the so-called control theory
- I use the manuals that come with the Tridium Workstation AX software. This won't help if you do not use Tridium Niagara or a rebranded version of the JACE
- When I teach BACnet and Modbus, I use the manuals for the equipment that use those communication protocols. For example, the Automation Direct Drive manuals above provide adequate discussion of Modbus. The ABB Drives have a separate manual that addresses setting up BACnet communications for their drive.
https://library.e.abb.com/public/3a7f1befeb5556dbc12572dc002365b3/3AUA0000004591_REVD.pdf
Bell & Gossett
http://bellgossett.com/training-education/training-manuals/
Marley Cooling Towers
https://spxcooling.com/pdf/Cooling-Tower-Fundamentals.pdf
Cleaver Brooks Boilers
http://cleaverbrooks.com/reference-center/resource-library/boiler-book/index.html
Trane
https://www.trane.com/commercial/north-america/us/en/education-training/educational-resources-by-type/application-manuals.html
The Trane materials are not free; in fact, I consider them expensive. But it is possible to ask Trane for permissions to use pdf versions and place them on your course management system. Go through your local Trane Distributor.
Baltimore Cooling Tower
http://www.baltimoreaircoil.com/english/knowledge-center/resource-library
Belimo Actuators
Catalog for damper actuators and valves
http://www.baltimoreaircoil.com/english/knowledge-center/resource-library
Knowledge Center
https://www.belimo.us/en_US/solutions/links/documents.html
Much material here, but the damper applications guide is great.
VAV Systems
https://www.titus-hvac.com/file/7564/terminal%20units%20eng_guidelines2013.pdf
https://www.kele.com/kele-solutions-articles.aspx
TSI / Alnor (for airside T.A.B. work)
http://www.tsi.com/uploadedFiles/_Site_Root/Products/Literature/Handbooks/2980562A-Alnor_HVAC_Handbook_2007.pdf
Functional Testing Guides
https://www.ftguide.org/
Do not be confused by the word 'design'. This is part of the commissioning process which necessarily employs many technicians
Titus
https://www.titus-hvac.com/file/11072/AirBalancing_AG_2016.pdf
Air Balancing Guide that also addresses fans and fan curves
Any Number of YouTube Videos
I also use the owner and installation manuals for my lab equipment i.e.: AHU, Chiller, Boiler, geothermal, Pumps, Fans, VFDs, valves, dampers, control, etc. The students appreciate the ability to learn from those documents.
If you are an ASHRAE, AHRI, ACCA, RSES, etc. member, don't forget to use magazine/journal articles. I use many ASHRAE articles to address what the designer was suppose to do so that my students can understand how they operate so they can be properly serviced.
This is actually a short list. There is nearly anything you want available for free and for legal use and distribution from manufacturer's websites. Most manufacturers want these distributed and used by students and technicians...it's free advertising. However, it does take effort to use them in the classroom since they will not necessarily fit anindividual's teaching style or the progression of your specific program. I've made it work and the students appreciate the literature to which they've been exposed and are able to use it in the field.

I’m sure you are aware of the SkillsCommons.org site as Roane State was a TAACCCT grantee but they continue to enhance and add support the openly licensed materials at the site. In particular they have some helpful resources for a number of Apprenticeships programs and HVAC is one of them. The resources include sample instructional materials, program, pathway, and syllabi from multiple states. Hope that some of this is helpful.
http://support.skillscommons.org/showcases/apprenticeships/skillscommons-apprenticeship-resources/hvac/

Fire Science
Hello, all. I will be meeting with faculty in the Fire Science, Mortuary science, and Law Enforcement programs on my campus tomorrow to discuss OER. Does anyone know of resources for these programs. I searched skillscommons but got one result in fire science. Thanks for any leads.

There is a collection of Fire Safety in MERLOT (315 resources) at:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2671&hasAwards=false&hasComments=false&hasCourses=false&filterTypesOpen=false&dateRange=0&hasEtextReviews=false&isLeadershipLibrary=false&hasCollections=false&filterOtherOpen=false&isContentBuilder=false&filterSubjectsOpen=true&hasAccessibilityForm=false&hasPeerReviews=false&hasAssignments=false&filterPartnerAffiliationsOpen=true&hasRatings=false&hasSercActivitySheets=false&days=7&filterMobileOpen=false&sort.property=overallRating&hasEditorReviews=false&page=1

Hydrolics
Our hydraulics instructor was interested in OER but then decided to retire. Here is a Google doc where we were collecting potential materials.
Matt Schwarz MFG 104

We have 23 Common Core Trades books that might be in alignment with what you are looking for. You can find them here:
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Common%20Core

Keyboarding

I have a department chair looking for keyboarding OER. I've checked openoregon, oasis, and skillscommon. Does anyone have courses using OER for keyboarding?

Try https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Computer_Skills/Fundamentals/Typing . Not a "course", but it does have links to many free tutorials.

Landscape Design

Some instructors at USask are looking for OER for the Landscape Design course.
I have found these and sent them on to them, but I'm wondering if there is anything that might meet their needs (see below).
https://collection.bccampus.ca/textbooks/red-seal-landscape-horticulturist-identify-plants-and-plant-requirements/
https://open.lib.umn.edu/nativegrasses/
https://openpress.usask.ca/soilscience/ (this one was a cross-Canada partnership that Fran Walley led.
They're looking for materials that cover:
Design styles, elements, and techniques
- History of landscape design
- Indigenous, English, German, and Japanese styles
- Hard scaping, construction, working containers with turfgrass
- Communication and working with clients
Landscape design principles and concepts
- Humans in the natural and urban worlds
- Urban environments and urban planning
- Future cities and urban communities
- The landscape design process
Plants in the landscape
- Landscape and site analysis, drafting programs
- Plant selection, hardiness, climate, water, soils, color, and light
- Edible, perennial, and annual landscapes; stock standards, pruning
- Botanical gardens and prairie gardens
Environmental philosophy, landscape ecology and sustainability
- Concept of nature; the connection between nature and humankind
- Sustainable development goals and urban horticulture
- Ecological functioning of landscapes, and landscape restoration
- Soil-plant-air-water continuum

You may find content of use in the LibreTexts platform. Via searches on our Commons search for biology and ecology:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=botany&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
and
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=ecology&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=

Logistics, Transportation and Distribution

I'm having difficulty locating an open textbook for a logistics course about transportation and distribution.

Were you able to find usable materials on the Skills Commons site? Sample search results: https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=logistics
I have to admit that the content in this repository doesn't always make sense to me - sometimes clicking through doesn't seem to lead to actual materials. So it might take a bit of digging.

Manufacturing Technology

I presented in front of our CTE programs today about the importance of zero cost courses…… my phone was ringing in an hour with information requests from our Manufacturing Technology program. Best phone call ever! Any resources you can suggest?

We have not had any faculty use these manufacturing OER yet, but here are a few for you and your faculty to evaluate:
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/manufacturingprocesses45/
https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/sinst/book/liii.pdf
https://www.wisc-online.com/GammaPlus/Apps?activeTab=Flashcard
https://www.cteonline.org/curriculum/outline/welding-technology-model/cMb2Kf (Need to sign up for a free account to access)

I am looking for guidance on the following topics:
RBTC 2347 Computer Integrated Manufacturing and,
RBTC 1305 Robotics Fundamentals

I'm not sure whether this is relevant, but Oregon has an open manufacturing textbook: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/manufacturingprocesses45/

Please pardon the redundancy…I have not been paying attention to posts on disciplines that are not related to mine, but our CTE program is beginning to realize the value of OER, hence the request below. Other than Skillscommons.org, any other resources you can send will be much appreciated.
IND 181 - World Class Manufacturing I
Studies the principles and applications of the globalization of industry. Emphasizes the fundamentals of interpersonal/team process, organization skills, total quality tools for continuous improvement, statistical process control, manufacturing resource planning and just- in-time.
Lecture 3 hours per week.
3 credits

Not specifically addressing this course, but manufacturing in general.
Our Maintenance faculty have been able to get permission from equipment manufacturers to use their manuals for courses. See:
"Cutting, Heating and Welding Guide” from Victor Technologies 2012 edition (Manual No: 0056-3260)
https://www.millerwelds.com/-/media/miller-electric/files/pdf/resources/pipeweldinghandbook.pdf
https://www.lincolnelectric.com/assets/US/EN/literature/c2410.pdf

Supply Chain is using:
Transportation Operations from Open Commons
I'm not sure whether this is relevant (this is way outside my area of expertise) but you could take a look at a manufacturing textbook created at Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/manufacturingprocesses45/
One more. Our Manufacturing faculty member just shared another resource list:
http://opensourcemachine.org/us-army-courses

Is anyone aware of any OER for Manufacturing - Properties of Materials? The course description is:
Introduces the basic concepts of materials including composition, properties and usage in manufacturing processes. Provides an overview of the properties of materials as modified by heat treatment, welding and machining processes with an emphasis on metals.

I'm attaching an OER spreadsheet with my search results for a similar course at Columbus State Community College. There are three tabs at the bottom, but one of them contains library resources, many of which your library might also have. I hope this helps.

Medical Assisting

I just got an email from a student who is in the medical assisting program at my institution. They found my name as the ZTC/OER lead on campus and sent me an email explaining their hardships. While I cannot insist that other faculty employ zero cost OERs in their programs, I can offer suggestions and send resources to the student directly so they may at least use the zero cost resources in lieu of pricy materials.

There are some OER/no-cost adoptions in Linn-Benton Community College's medical assistant program: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=cma%20.
One of these relies on test prep available through a database that our State Library provides access to for all Oregonians.

I took a quick look at the textbooks required for the courses for the program.
Medical/health materials tend to be on the higher end of course material prices.
The department actually does a really nice job of describing and breaking out the costs of the program http://hs.marin.edu/medical-assisting/costs
I may be missing if there are separate lab fees or kits the student needs (medical kits can get expensive), but while a few course materials are on the higher side many are not like MEADA 160 is $68.
166 and 165 is using the same material so that textbook is for both courses.
171 is an expensive $200 title -figure its Elsevier. Ugh.

I have an instructor in Medical Laboratory Technology who is interested in adopting/adapting OER materials for her courses.

MERLOT has a whole section on Medical Laboratory Technology. There are 66 resources cataloged.
Direct link: Material Search Results (merlot.org)

Medical Office Procedures

A faculty member is looking for OERs for the above. The course focuses on medical law and ethics, medical office management, medical records management and the legal & ethical role of a medical office admin assistant. I have some resources that I found at the Saylor Foundation. If anyone knows of any other OERs for this course I would appreciate feedback.

I’ve just completed work on a grant where materials focusing on those topics were created:
RxTN Certified Clinical Medical Assistant content (I personally think this one would work better for the faculty member)
RxTN Medical Law & Ethics content

Medical Terminology

One of our Medical Terminology* instructors has just about hit her breaking point with the publisher and their Byzantine process for accessing quiz question pools.
What's out there that I can offer her? MedTerms is a gateway course for ALL Allied Health, and going OER for this class would save students a TON of money.
*This is basic first-year stuff - prefixes and suffixes, base words, etc. E.g., "dermatitis" = "infection (itis) of the skin (derma)"

We've found several learning resources for medical terminology and cataloged them at KnowledgeToWork.com. You can find all these resources with this link: https://www.knowledgetowork.com/search-setsearchbar.php?sswcode=COMP&pid=1092102&search=CompetencyName . Not all are openly licensed, but you can use the filters on the left to narrow the results by copyright license.

Office Technology

I’m on the hunt for resources our office technology instructors can utilize. So far I haven’t had a ton luck however feel there must be more out there than I have found (which is listed below). I’ve searched SkillsCommons but admittedly have not found a good strategy to find resources on this site.

You can search MERLOT by category, i.e.
Keyboarding yields 3 typing tutorials:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=keyboarding&sort.property=relevance
Quickbooks yields 5 resources:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=quickbooks&sort.property=relevance

For typing / keyboarding, see:
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Computer_Skills/Fundamentals/Typing
For Microsoft Office, see:
https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/topics/office/
https://www.excel-easy.com/

Open Pedagogy at Polytechnics

Does anyone have any examples that they can share of open pedagogy at polytechnic institutions or trades / technical institutes?

Perhaps relevant - we have faculty who teach technical writing classes in which students write open repair manuals with iFixit: https://edu.ifixit.com /

Picture Archiving and Communication System

One of our faculty is interested in PACS (picture archiving and communication system). She is currently teaching the course using copyrighted materials from the library. She interested in developing the course as OER. Any suggestions on available resources? Thanks.

I would suggest that she may want to replace the images with correctly attributed CC-licensed and/or Public Domain images. See this list for potential sources of images http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/images
If she cannot or refuses, her options are to:
- Complete an informed Fair Use analysis for each item to determine if her proposed use is indeed fair
- Obtain permission for each item for her particular use, request that the owner of the image CC-license them (or a lower-resolution version), or request permission which is transferable to other users
For any of these, she should spell out very, very clearly that the works are in-copyright and the terms under which she is using them (fair use, used with permission, CC) as a courtesy to downstream users or potential adapters.

Pharmacology
A fellow faculty member is willing to get into OER, and is looking for an OER text or resource for pharmacology for MA students....anyone have anything?

I've attached a spreadsheet containing what I found for one of our faculty members in pharmacology.
Rachel Dilley, MLIS
Columbus State Community College
rdilley2@cscc.edu

I am seeking images for a pharmacy tech program - has anyone had any luck with this area?

Unsplash has some nice options: https://unsplash.com/s/photos/pharmacy

Plumbing and Electrical Work
I am looking for OER that cover basic plumbing and electrical work for our corrections students. It would be great if video tutorials are available.

One of our instructors at Maui Community College developed this book a few years ago.
It covers plumbing, electrical, and a host of safety topics.
There are many embedded videos within.
https://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/buildingmaint/

Skills Commons at
https://partner.skillscommons.org/
offers OER repositories and portals, among other things.

Hmm, I wonder why that could be.
The book has an entry in the Open Textbook Library, but may not have been included in many other repositories or referatories.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/building-maintenance-construction-tools-and-maintenance-tasks
Feel free to distribute and share broadly to other places where folks look for OER.
Oh, and leave a review in the OTL if you have a moment!

Real Estate
Our college is looking into the possibility of making our Real Estate program ZTC and we are wondering if
there are OER materials out there for the courses listed below.
Most probably are California specific, but if any of you know of any OER for these courses, please let us know.
Real Estate Principles
Fundamentals of real estate, covering basic laws and principles of California real estate.
Gives understanding, background, and terminology necessary for advanced study in the specialized courses.
Real Estate Practice
Office procedures and practices of the broker and salesperson in the real estate business, including listing, prospecting,
advertising, financing, exchanges, and sales techniques.
Course is applicable toward the educational requirements for broker’s license and real estate salesperson’s license.
Real Estate Finance
Analysis of real property financing. Topics include: primary and secondary sources of real estate loans,
mathematics and legal aspects of finance, role of government agencies, mortgage insurance and interest rates,
credit reporting, real estate appraisal, and taxation.
Course is applicable toward the educational requirements for broker’s license and real estate salesperson’s license.
Real Estate Appraisal
Introductory course covering the purposes of appraisals, the appraisal process and approaches,
and the methods and techniques used to determine the value of various types of property,
with emphasis on the single-family residence. Course is applicable toward the educational requirements for broker’s
license real estate sales-person’s license.
Advanced Real Estate Appraisal
Appraisal of residential apartment buildings, small office buildings, shopping centers, and industrial buildings.
Course meets California real estate broker license requirements, and is accepted as 54 hours toward Office of Real Estate
Appraisers (OREA) certificate-residential/certificate-general appraisal requirements.
Real Estate Escrow
Case method study of escrow procedures, including the actual processing of sale escrow. Topics include: encumbrances, interest adjustments, reconveyance, mortgages, insurance, taxes, fees, unique vocabulary, title policy types, drawing of documents, and other processing details pertinent to the handling of an escrow from inception to closing. Course applies towards the education requirements for broker’s and real estate salesperson’s licenses.
Real Estate Property Management
Introduction to management of real estate property. Identification and analysis of functions, responsibilities, legal rights,
liabilities, and leasing instruments of property management. Course is an elective for the California sales or broker’s license.

I saw your message regarding the possibility of developing a zero-course materials cost degree for Real Estate
and your request for information about existing OER course materials (Erin, see message from Larry below).
My colleague Dr. Erin Hopkins (copied) is developing an 8-chapter, peer- and student-reviewed open textbook
titled Sustainable Property Management. It will be published in early 2023. To receive updates,
please complete the form at: https://bit.ly/interest_sustainable_real_estate The Table of Contents is included below.
Erin, may I share the draft abstract and introduction?
Chapter 1: Introduction to Sustainable Property Management
Chapter 2: The Three Spheres of Sustainable Property Management
Chapter 3: Stakeholder Motivations for Sustainable Property Management Practices
Chapter 4: Sustainable Building Maintenance and Repair Practices
Chapter 5: The Intersection of Sustainable Property Management and Risk Management
Chapter 6: Integrating Sustainable Practices into Marketing and Leasing
Chapter 7: Integrating Sustainable Practices into Accounting and Finance
Chapter 8: Health and Well-Being Considerations

Regenerative Agriculture

I was wondering if anyone has openly licensed materials on regenerative agriculture?

The only thing that comes to mind is Andrew Millison's Intro to Permaculture: https://open.oregonstate.education/permaculture/

Veterinary Technology

Does anyone know of an OER dedicated to a Vet Tech program, especially a terminology title?
You might want to check out the http://skillscommons.org site. This is the site where the OER based materials/course
syllabi developed by community colleges that received the Department of Labor TAACCCT Grants are stored.
Veterinary Technology was one of the disciplines/careers that was selected by some college grantees. I took a quick scan earlier and saw mostly syllabi, student handbooks, instructor guides for vet tech but the colleges do identify themselves and you can reach out and see if they are willing to share additional materials and/or their methods for creating OER-based vet tech curriculum.

Welding

Does anyone have some leads for welding OER material? Any information about the keywords below would be particularly helpful to our CTE program.

Shielded Metal Arc Welding (SMAW)
Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW)
Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW)
Flux Cored Arc Welding (FCAW)
Laser Beam Welding (LBW)
Robotic Welding (no acronym)
Plasma Arc Cutting (PAC)
Oxyfuel Welding (OFW)
Oxyfuel Cutting (OFW)
Metal Fabrication (no acronym)
Nondestructive Examination (NDE)
Nondestructive Testing (NDT)
Destructive Testing (DT)

Check out BCcampus's 23 Common Core Trades books that might have some of what you are looking for.
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Common%20Core
Have you looked in Wikibooks as well?
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Welding/SMAW
Springer has 17 articles from the Welding in the World journal that are open access:

http://link.springer.com/search?query=&search-within=Journal&facet-journal-id=40194&package=openaccessarticles
I'd like to recommend SkillsCommons. It contains free and open learning materials and program support materials for workforce development. I've already found some on welding:

https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=welding

Does anyone have OER for welding? Our welding instructor is looking for resources he can use to replace his textbooks which is over $150. Any suggestions?
Your question sparked my curiosity... so I dug around some.
I found this page at Portland CC http://guides.pcc.edu/welding/packets
Not a book, but this is cool: http://www.msamc.org/pbl_welding.html
Here is a book that says it is CC-BY 3.0 https://www.intechopen.com/books/welding-processes
*Note: I hadn't heard of In Tech until today, anyone else know their work?

Here are some resources that I dug up for welding. Many aren't OER, but are free online.
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/3-37-welding-and-joining-processes-fall-2002
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/modern-blacksmithing-and-physical-metallurgy-fall-2008
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/welding-technology-model
https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/technical/welding (OER)
http://guides.pcc.edu/welding/packets (OER)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welding (OER)
http://www.craftsmanspace.com/free-books/welding-soldering-and-brazing-books.html These are OER, but I'm guessing welding has probably changed a little in the past 100 years (they're kind of neat to look at though!)
Other free options:
http://weldguru.com/ (not OER, but free)
http://weldguru.com/welding-instructional-manual/ (not OER, but free)
http://www.esabna.com/euweb/awtc/lesson1_2.htm (not OER, but free)
http://www.esabna.com/shared/documents/litdownloads/gen26802weldersguidebookemail.pdf (not OER, but free)
http://www.esabna.com/euweb/mig_handbook/592mig1_1.htm (not OER, but free)
http://www.esabna.com/euweb/fm_handbook/577fm1_1.htm (not OER, but free)
http://www.esabna.com/euweb/oxy_handbook/589oxy1_1.htm (not OER, but free)
http://www.esabna.com/euweb/sa_handbook/585sa1_1.htm (not OER, but free)
https://pubs.aws.org/t/FreeDownloads (not OER, but free)
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mechanicalengr/files (You have to join the Yahoo group to access the files, join here)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.faadooengineers.free_awt&hl=en (not OER, but free)
http://weldinginst.yolasite.com/resources/Fabrication%20and%20Welding%20Engineering%20-%20Google%20Books.pdf (not OER, but free)
https://www.wilhelmsen.com/globalassets/marine-products/welding/documents/wilhelmsen-ships-service---unitor-welding-handbook.pdf (not OER, but free)
https://www.ratemywelder.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-welding-resources/
https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/welding-metal-fabrication/ (really cheap welding books)
http://www.engmatl.com/home/viewcategory/8-welding-a-joining-materials (not OER, but free)
http://dmoztools.net/Science/Technology/Welding/

We are looking for any materials that exist for Welding. We’ve found a few things on Skills Commons but are hoping that there are more out there.

Although MERLOT and Skills Commons are partners, we don't necessarily have the same resources.
I searched MERLOT for Welding and found 77 materials:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)
In addition, if you click on the Other Libraries at the top tab, you can find more. For welding, none of the other Libraries have resources.
Our tab of The Web uses an algorithm that searches educationally oriented materials. There are 100 materials. Probably not all usable, but good to have.

Hi Sally, here are a few adoptions from Oregon that may be relevant:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=wd%20

World Class Manufacturing

I am developing a new World Class Manufacturing course and would like to include several hands-on examples to enhance the learning experience.
Anyone aware of OER classroom simulations and/or projects that would enable to achieve this goal?

WISC-ONLINE has a variety on online learning objects https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/manufacturing-engineering/

Education

Minnesota State is the recipient of a $978,332 grant through the Open Textbook Pilot program from the US Department of Education. We are conducting an inventory of available materials in the open marketplace (and beyond) for the following 5 courses in teacher education:
• Introduction to Education
• Foundations of Instruction
• Educational Technology
• Introduction to Literacy
• Human Relations and Multicultural Education
If you or a colleague you know are familiar with open or public domain materials that may align well with one or more of the courses above, we would welcome your drawing our attention to them. We are ecstatic for this opportunity to expand the number of high quality and open materials available to teacher educators everywhere, and we are thankful for any assistance our colleagues working in the open space can provide.

For open textbooks related to Educational Technology, I highly recommend checking out EdTech Books, https://edtechbooks.org/

Introduction to Education (BETA): Becoming a Professional by Jennifer Beasley and Myra Haulmark (CC BY-SA)
Description: This book was written to provide students with an introduction to the field of education.
The book is broken into chapters that focus on questions students may have about education in general.
Although some chapters may go into more depth than others, this is created as an introductory text.

Lumen Course: Foundations of Education: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-oneonta-education106/ Foundations of Education was created
as a broad introduction to the teacher education program at SUNY Oneonta. The faculty of SUNY Oneonta designed this book with
the intention to give an overview of topics that would be returned to throughout the student’s preparatory program.
The authors strove to create a reader-friendly overview that would be used as the basis for classroom discussion as they welcomed future educators
and asked them to reflect on what kind of teacher they will be.

Lumen course Education, Society, & the K-12 Learner: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/teachereducationx92x1/
Book: The Ends and Means of Education: A Philosophy of Education Reader by Kevin Johnstun (CC0 - public domain license):
https://edtechbooks.org/philosophyofed
Wikibook on Education (CC BY-SA): https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Foundations_and_Assessment_of_Education
Here is an Educational Psychology book (CC BY): https://cnx.org/contents/zmxetoTT@2.1:8cmu43n0@1/Preface
Brown’s Useful Guide: Where Theory Becomes Applicable to Classroom Practice
http://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=textbooks (does have copyright but is part of Columbia State University's CSU's ePress which is open access.)
Here are some resources I have pulled from a thread on OER for Education courses in a Google Group I manage.
I forgot to include resources for some of the other classes you listed:
EEC Language and Literacy Course (CC BY-NC-SA)
Culturally Responsive Teaching: A 50-State Survey of Teaching Standards (CC BY)
Course on Intercultural Education .which includes content on intercultural relationships, cultural differences, social conflict, cultural spaces, cultural competence is licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US
These resources are found on threads in the prior linked Google Group.--

We are developing courses for education (for teachers in NJ) and need help with books or content.

You can see what's being used in Oregon for education courses (that I know of) at this link: http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=Education

College Success

I am in search of two OER for our College Success course; a personality test and a budgeting tool. There are plenty of free personality tests and personal budgeting tools out there, but are any OER?

Take a look at the Quest for Online Success (the OEI readiness program) The Online Education Initiative (OEI) is providing the readiness for online learning program called Quest for Online Success (henceforth referred to as Quest or Quest course) to all 113 CCCs for prospective and currently enrolled students in online and blended courses. This is currently in pilot but should be available for all CCC by Fall. You can use as standalone or inside a Canvas course.
If you do not remember how to get started, here is a copy of the current Getting Started email https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/527/pages/getting-started-email?module_item_id=35238
If you do not remember your SmarterMeasure credentials, please email me at acrawley@comcast.net

Just as a reminder........... here are the basics:
What is Quest?
A free readiness for online learning course built in a Canvas shell that includes:
• Two pathways – one for novice and the other for experienced online learners
• SmarterMeasure, a diagnostic assessment of online readiness
• Skill building multimedia tutorials
• Quizzes
• Supplemental resources
The best way to learn more about this program is to go to the Readiness Resource Repository at: https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/527
Who is eligible?

You can make Quest available to all prospective and currently enrolled online students.
Four Options
Quest for Summer 2017 remains essentially the same as Quest for Spring 2017. As each of you spend more time customizing your Quest course with local resources, you will probably not want to start with a new file each term, but would rather update your current course and copy that course for the next term. To that end, we will be sending you any changes we make to the Quest files.
The two changes for Summer are both found in the Getting Tech Ready module. Under Supplemental Resources, you will want to delete the Creating Pdfs link which is broken. You will also want to change your Canvas Tutorials file which includes links to various Canvas videos from the old Canvas website to the Canvas Community website. The URL for each video has changed and we have provided a new file with all links updated. That file can be found at https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/527/pages/two-changes-effective-3-slash-6-slash-17?module_item_id=42266 These changes have been done for you if you are using the new files for Summer.
What is new for Summer? We have created two additional files that separate the Novice and Experienced Student Pathways. You still have the generic option with both pathways and the localized option with both pathways. The benefit of splitting each pathway into separate Quest courses is that it provides a clearer option for students new to online learning. The Experienced Student Pathway includes resources which are beneficial for all students. Both pathways include SmarterMeasure (listed as optional in the Experienced Student Pathway) and Module 4 - Becoming an Effective Online Learner.
Links to all four options can be found at
https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/527/pages/4-import-options?module_item_id=37133
Implementation Details
Each step for creating your Quest course including suggestions for connecting all other eligible students to the Quest program can be found here https://ccconlineed.instructure.com/courses/527/pages/details-for-each-implementation-step?module_item_id=33068
The Basics of Quest and SmarterMeasure Webinar on March 16th - please encourage your folks who are new to Quest to join us at noon.

Anita Crawley from the Online Education Initiative and Katie Winter from SmarterServices (company that provides SmarterMeasure within Quest) will answer the following questions:
• What is Quest?
• What is SmarterMeasure?
• What are the benefits of adopting Quest and using SmarterMeasure as a part of Quest?
• How do I get started?
• Where do I go for additional information and support?
To Register: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8547600476826850562
Please tell us if someone else should be included or if you would like your name removed from this email group. For questions, please contact Anita.

I am on the hunt for OER material around Study Skills for our Learning Strategies counseling course. Although specifically looking for study skills I will gladly accept any other suggested resources for a learning strategies course.

As part of the RxTN grant, we created some student support modules including Study Skills, Test Taking Skills, Time Management, and Reading Effectively for College Students. These modules are located at the bottom of this list:
https://www.skillscommons.org//handle/taaccct/400

Hi all, a couple of resources used in Oregon's colleges:
College Success:
A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students by Alise Lamoreaux
How to Learn Like a Pro! by Phyllis Nissila
College Success (Saylor)
The Rebus Community is currently supporting a project to develop OERs for College and Career Success, particularly for a typical first-year 3 unit course. Three texts are available as part of this project:

Blueprint for Success in College and Career: A free, Open Educational Resource, Blueprint for Success in College and Career is a students’ guide for classroom and career success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation focuses on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, and financial literacy.
Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies: This text, designed to show how to be successful in college focuses on study skills and time management.
Blueprint for Success in Career Decision Making: A college students’ guide for career success, this free Open Educational Resource text focuses on major identification and career exploration.

The texts are authored by Dave Dillon, a tenured Professor and counseling faculty at Grossmont College, and are currently undergoing peer review. We expect review to complete by the end of the year, but Amy, you are welcome to peruse through the books to see if any will be appropriate for your Learning Strategies course!

For my sabbatical project this semester, I have been working on curating, co-authoring, and editing a few OER for the College Success genre. Links to drafts are below (in Apurva’s e-mail). They are designed for courses Grossmont College offers: Study Skills and Time Management (one unit), Career Decision Making (one unit), and College and Career Success (three units, CSU GE Area E). Drafts have just been completed and they have been sent out for peer review and an accessibility review, with the goal of another round of editing in late December and final products ready for the Spring semester. It has been a tremendous journey and learning opportunity and I am deeply grateful for the expertise, kindness, and passion from the folks on this listserv and in the Open community.

A few notes and thanks I would like to add if you will indulge me:
I “remixed” four previously existing OER and changed the license from my own previous work to CC BY to create the three new OER. I’m including the four OER here because I think they are all great on their own:

In addition to two of the texts Amy Hofer included in this thread:
A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students by AliseLamoreaux
How to Learn Like a Pro! by Phyllis Nissila
I also remixed content from Lumen Learning’s College Success:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/collegesuccess-lumen/
and from Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom:
https://textbooks.opensuny.org/foundations-of-academic-success/
I recently added the Santa Ana College Student Panel video from OpenEd ’17 to my Preface.

Searching for a college skills/first year experience oer textbook with ancillary materials.
https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=348

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-collegesuccess/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Flumenlearning.com%2Fcourses%2Fcollege-success%2F

Here's the open textbook/full course developed by one of our faculty for our first year course at ACC - EDUC 1300 - Effective Learning Strategies. It has built in exercises for each unit.
https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/8434

Career and Life Planning
Student Success

Critical Thinking

We are looking for OER materials for a class in Critical Thinking. All material formats would be useful, but it would be especially nice to find some OER videos to accompany the course.
One of our Philosophy faculty here at Lansing Community College, Dr. Matthew Van Cleave, created an OER on Intro to Logic and Critical Thinking. He just recently revised it. It's just plain text though and doesn't contain videos but still might be useful for you.

Early Childhood Education

As a product of a robust discussion at the incredibly motivating OER Summit Friday I have created a Canvas shell to act as a repository of OER information in the Child Development/Early Childhood Education field. As those in this field have discovered there exists no already assembled OER products and as such we have begun some dialogues to leverage our efforts, especially with the ZTC degree grant. One step is a Canvas shell which enable us to at least begin to gather information pertaining to these courses. At our college alone we have 32 different courses in ECE with NO OER books already available. Please share the sign up link with your ECE/CHDEV faculty. Feel free to contact me or Kendra Mull (Kendra.mull@reedleycollege.edu) with any questions.
1) Sign up at https://scccd.instructure.com/register
2) Use the following join code: WE67F8

Here is a response from Jennifer Paris.

In addition, you might consider acquiring access to Databrary. There is a tremendous array of video research/documentation related to developmental processes. Because it is protected data, you must be authorized by your institution to access it and careful about how you use it, but it is an excellent resource.

Hi, I have a faculty member who is looking for OER for two early childhood education classes related to teaching literacy.

She has found Schneider's text The Inside, Outside, and Upside Downs of Children's Literature: From Poets and Pop-ups to Princesses and Porridge, and will likely use that for Teaching Children's Literature, but is open to additional suggestions.

She is particularly looking for something for the course Teaching Language Arts to the Young Child. She's already looked in the the early childhood ed category in Merlot, OpenSUNY, and Project Guttenberg and found possible resources, so at this point I think we are trying to determine if anyone is using something different that is open but housed locally and not already available through the typical OER repositories. Thanks for any suggestions you can provide!

It wouldn't be a standalone text, but there is a chapter on Language Literacy in the Introduction Curriculum OER textbook that myself and a colleague wrote that can be accessed at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/introduction-to-curriculum-oer-group

There are also a few resources in a general ECE OER/ZTC collaboration Google Group in the Language and Literacy thread at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/early-childhood-education-oer-collaboration/eGC2957fEwQ (not all are openly licensed as zero textbook cost materials can be included).

I have some instructors looking for an OER textbook for an Introduction to Early Childhood Education class.

There is a great one from College of the Canyons.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11bl-KEpESRzXiNlxKTsRDJjKPhavp-gZ/view
https://www.canyons.edu/

We have imported the College of the Canyons ECE books into our SocialSciences library (thanks Jennifer Paris):
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Early_Childhood_Education
and the Spanish translations can be found here (still being imported):
https://espanol.libretexts.org/Ciencias_Sociales/Educacion_de_la_Primera_Infancia
As all OER should be, our hosted content is fully remixable and editable. Let me know if you would like to know more information.

While we have five (and soon to be six) OER ECE books, the one that will best match what you are likely looking for is still in the works. It is expected to be released in the fall. They may be able to find some resources to use to replace a textbook in the Early Childhood Education OER/ZTC Collaboration Google Group.
Here is a summary of work (mostly from the California Community College system) in Early Childhood Education, as well.

I have a faculty member looking for textbooks to use in our early childhood education courses.

Here are resources I've come across over the years.
Most of these were found pre-pandemic (before 2020), so I'm not sure how current they may still be,
but I'm hoping you can find some helpful resources or at least a few leads:

Child, Family, and Community, Version 1.0 can be accessed in Word and PDF in the Welcome Message of the Google Group for the book
The Child Growth and Development OER textbook that College of the Canyons has been working on for 18 months
is now fully complete and ready to be shared. It doesn’t yet have a permanent URL on the College of the Canyons website,
but can be accessed using the links below.

The Word version of the book (to be downloaded for easy editing)
The PDF version of the book
A Google Group with the hopes that instructors will be willing to share resources (ideally with an open license)
they use to teach the course with the book

CSU Channel Islands uses ALL OER for its Child Development program. Maybe contact the coordinator or program chair.
OER for Child Dev on the cool4ed.org site
There is an ECE OER/ZTC google group which we have been using as a content repository for a wide variety of ECE courses (over 30)!

We have spent a bit of time harvesting and curating many ECE texts within the ECE bookshelf on the LibreTexts Social Sci library:

https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Early_Childhood_Education

However, some content can also be found in the Education bookshelf:

https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Education_and_Professional_Development

As with all the OER on our libraries, they can be easily edited, customized, and remixed. Please let me know if you need any more information.

There are a lot of great open resources for ECE out there.
You can find available titles within the "Early childhood care and education" subject on the Pressbooks Directory.
Most of these titles are openly licensed and available to be adapted within a Pressbooks network or on another platform.

I am looking for OER for the following courses in Child Development/Early Childhood Education:
CDEC
TECA
EDUC

Here are some great resources to check out for ECE OER
Summary of Open Educational Resources in Early Childhood Education
Open Educational Resources and CDEV/ECE (Child Development and Early Childhood Education) - ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (asccc-oeri.org)
Early Childhood Education - Social Sci LibreTexts
Education & Professional Development - Social Sci LibreTexts
There are also quite a few canvas shells shared on the commons if you are a canvas school
which might have some additional ZTC resources you can use.

Infant and Child Development: From Conception Through Late Childhood by Marie Parnes PhD and Maria Pagano PhD

Instructional Design

Looking for OER materials or a book for an instructional design foundations course
For a very traditional approach, you might look at http://www.ocw.usu.edu/Other_Educational_Resources/intro-to-instructional-design/index.html . Some related information is available in the online open book Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology available at http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page .

Introduction to Education

I have a faculty member looking for OER for a course titled "Introduction to Education". The course description is:
Provides an introduction to teaching as a profession in the American education system.
Offers a variety of perspectives on education including historical, philosophical, social, legal, and ethical issues in a diverse society.
Includes organizational structure and school governance.

Here is a thread in that lists OER that I (and colleagues in Early Childhood Education) have come across for Education courses: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/early-childhood-education-oer-collaboration/APeYa-XjYxU

SUNY Oneonta created a Foundations of Education book meant for our first year students.
This is an introductory course meant for all of our elementary and adolescent future teachers, meant to give a broad overview of topics that they will get further instruction in as they progress through the program.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-oneonta-education106/
This is the pilot version of the book that we used in the fall and spring semester, and we are currently making revisions to be used next fall.

Netiquette

Our e-Learning department is looking for an OER book on Netiquette. Does anybody know of one?

I don't know of a whole book, but I'm wondering what they might want it for. I'm also wondering if they could use pieces of a Business Communications book, and do an OER-Enabled assessment around converting it to be all about Netiquette.
I've never really considered that the topic needs a whole book. Here are some sample pages that I've used/seen in the past:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/ivytech-engl111/chapter/netiquette/
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewPortfolio.htm?id=998100&hitlist=category%3D2730%26
http://www.gcu.ac.uk/library/smile/communication/netiquette/

Open Education

The Michigan Academic Library Association OER interest group is thinking of getting together a cohort of librarians to do a more formal training/certification program. We're considering the CC Librarian Certificate. Does anyone know if the EdX Introduction to Open Education course from UT-Arlington is going to be offered again? Other suggestions?

I teach an Introduction to Open Education every other year in Brigham Young University's graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology. Though this is a face to face class, you can see the course design, readings, and activities from the most recent offering at http://openeducation.us/2016/ . All course content created by me is licensed CC BY and I hope you'll find some of it interesting enough to reuse. It won't be long until I'll be updating it for the fall 2018 offering...
As was already mentioned, the content for the edX course George and I offered is all available from http://linkresearchlab.org/openedmooc/ .
I would also highly recommend the CC Certificate. I've been deeply involved in the design of the program and will be teaching the first two sections next year. I know I'm biased, but it's going to be terrific. =)
You might want to check in with SPARC. I know that they are piloting an OER Leadership training for librarians.
Also, this isn't about general OER, but you're welcome to anything from my most recent offering on completing IP reviews for open courses. It's mostly meant as a training for the technical effort of reviewing courses before publicly releasing them. https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1208502/modules

There's a terrific open course by the Scotland OEPS/Open University UK team called "Becoming an Open Educator" it's self-directed but you could design your own community of practice cohort. It's a great introduction for those that are new to OER and OEP (Open Educational Practices). The Introduction to Open Education edX course was a bit of a disappointment in terms of content and learning (in my opinion). It wasn't well facilitated and the community, in terms of discussion within and outside of the course, was not very engaged. CC is still fine tuning their training. We here in Ontario are keeping an eye on the opportunities with that and would be glad to collaborate with anything in the region that gets underway!
http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2274

Special Education

Our education faculty is looking for some specific resources. We’ve searched all the major OER search engines but are coming up short. Do any of you know of course materials (preferably textbooks) for a special education course? We are also looking for an Introduction to Education text as well.
Thanks for whatever help you can give!

We are also on a lookout for Intro to Education open textbooks! I have come across The Teaching Channel that has videos under CC BY-NC-SA. And this Teaching in a Digital Age open textbook.

An instructor at our college is using The First Year by Kristi Johnson Smith (from Learn NC). http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/firstyear/cover

Study Skills

One of my Learning Center faculty is working on converting his Study Skills course to OER, and is creating a remix of a variety of elements. He’s wanting to incorporate pieces from a variety of sources on the following topics:
How students should pursue communication with instructors–especially via email
Self-discovery, how the brain processes information
Real-world communication and interaction with colleagues
Growth mindset (we have Carol Dweck’s works via library subscription, but looking for others)
Time management
Active listening, note taking, reading/studying textbooks
Test success
How to create an environment that is conducive to good study
Learning styles, Garner’s multiple intelligences, personality types
Initially, I worked with some of our Counseling staff, and they had some recommendations, mostly from the following resources:
LibreTexts: Research and Info Literacy Bookshelf
LibreTexts: Counseling and Guidance Bookshelf
While we’ve been able to get some pieces together, but it’s somewhat hodge-podge.
The ask: Do any of you out there have ‘study skills’-type courses (perhaps through counseling, the learning center, or similar arenas) that are using a remix or textbook that you could recommend?

Here are some resources to peruse, Sarah:
https://guides.skylinecollege.edu/oersbysubject/counseling

OpenStax College Success (book) may have some content that is in scope:
https://openstax.org/details/books/college-success

Pedegogy

I'm looking for sample, very short, summaries of open pedagogy assignments to share via a website for people new to the concept.
I'm defining open pedagogy as any assignment that takes advantage of the 5Rs to ask students to add to the collection of resources that support future classes and learning. I don't need fully fleshed out lessons with rubrics and content, I just want short summary ideas so that others might be able to adapt them.
Example summaries might be:
Students in my class write exam questions.
or...
In preparation for exams, I ask students to write study guides and hints that can be reused by other students. I publish the best ones via my course website.
My goal is to build a collection of short ideas for people who want to try open pedagogy, but who may want more specific ideas to build off of.
Please feel free to respond to me off list. I'll share the collection with the whole list as soon as I have a good collection of ideas.

We have a landscape design instructor who has her students go out and identify plants. She has them take pictures of the plants that she then uses as examples for other classes or for assignments asking "identify this plant."
I realize this doesn't necessarily translate to more traditional courses, but I thought it was a neat idea and great example of open pedagogy.

We started this doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TDf9Uem4SID0anlUQPxWdwCh3SkvQnEpvQu_bRGRUIU/edit at BCcampus a couple of years ago and it has 33 examples in it.

I've compiled some student examples here: http://tinyurl.com/OpenTacomaCC

Here's my open assignment: Students are encouraged to add to and further develop the course's "learning guides." Currently, I haven't made the learning guides "open" but plan to in the future. The assignment though is structured in a way that aligns with open pedagogies: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iTKAlnvmQtGa33Tn3kYMs0oPq6tYXLR9p1o5rnoJj2I/edit?usp=sharing

Does anyone know of an Open Pedagogy repository/collection of syllabi or lessons?
There is lots of discussions going on about Open Pedagogy and I am seeking some examples of what people have done to demonstrate Open Pedagogy. Especially interested if you have examples of it being tied into an existing learning theory like, constructivism (open constructivism) behaviorism (open behaviorism) etc.
A couple of open pedagogy resources in case you haven’t seen them:
1. There is a great chapter on Open Pedagogy with 4 examples of open pedagogy assignments in the recently released:
Open: The Philosophy and Practices that are Revolutionizing Education and Science – Rajiv S. Jhangiani and Robert Biswas-Diener editors.
PDF download: From OER to Open Pedagogy: Harnessing the Power of Open (Robin DeRosa and Scott Robison
2.The YearofOpen.org website is dedicating April to Open Pedagogy. You can find interviews and some other great resources including a 90 minute recorded hangout with some of the thought leaders in open practice and pedagogy.
https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-pedagogy/
3. CCCOER is having an online discussion on Wed, April 26, on open pedagogy specifically using the Chapter by Robin DeRosa and Scott Robison as a frame for the discussion.
https://www.cccoer.org/2017/04/18/april-26-cccoer-advisory-on-open-pedagogy/

There is also this page which is a list of examples of open pedagogy, including links to the work. http://openedgroup.org/openpedagogy

There's also a curated list of posts on open pedagogy by Bali Maha:
http://blog.mahabali.me/blog/whyopen/curation-of-posts-on-open-pedagogy-yearofopen/
Also a Google document on Tweets and comments re: open pedagogy:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10V8VX53Lwjs4snnyVMGrYeZPA_vooHT2lxIvWcMbbMk/edit#heading=h.rt7udugju50f

There is a list of resources on the Year of Open, What is Open Pedagogy page (at the bottom). I will be glad to add additional resources .......
https://www.yearofopen.org/april-open-perspective-what-is-open-pedagogy/

Here's a link to the Common Cartridge export of my CC-BY Educational Technology course. It has a unit on learning theories: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0ByMeCxf_whVRc3B3RWdjbHIyS1E

"I am teaching an assessment course in Education, which is new to me.
It does not have a textbook, so I am looking for resources to use with the students- content is on validity and reliability, formative, and summative assessment,
making assessments using multiple choice questions, making rubrics and checklists etc.
Would there be something available in the open resources that might be helpful?"

I have not dove into this resource but I'm sure there is some helpful information
Foundations of Education and Instructional Assessment (Kidd et al.) - Social Sci LibreTexts

FYI: We just moved the Kidd et al.'s questions into H5P format and available on the LibreStudio (studio.libretexts.org).

The cases in the book Open Pedagogy Approaches cover assessment of open pedagogy projects: https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/openpedagogyapproaches/

Two books I'm aware of that may be directly relevant are this upper level education text on Curriculum,
Instruction, and Assessment from Kansas State:
https://kstatelibraries.pressbooks.pub/EDCI702/ and On Assessment, which was created by the first cohort of students enrolled in Special Topics in Assessment,
"a seven-week, fully online, (mostly) asynchronous, elective course in the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TLHE) certificate program at
Centennial College in Toronto": https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/tlhe720assessment/.
Rajiv Jhangiani wrote about his experience collaborating with students to develop assessments for an open textbook:
https://thatpsychprof.com/why-have-students-answer-questions-when-they-can-write-them/ .
There are some other good examples in the Open Pedagogy Notebook: http://openpedagogy.org/examples/ .

They might also find some interesting reflections in the Open Faculty and Open Learner patchbooks:
https://openfacultypatchbook.org/ + https://openlearnerpatchbook.org/
that Terry Greene assembled.

Study Skills

I am on the hunt for OER material around Study Skills for our Learning Strategies counseling course. Although specifically looking for study skills I will gladly accept any other suggested resources for a learning strategies course.

While not an OER, the book "Make it Stick" is an excellent survey of the science behind effective learning strategies.

I keep seeing references to this book, College Success: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=9 but can't vouch for it personally.

Our College Success courses use the book just sent out from the Open Textbook Network https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=9

I'm working on something similar and have to agree- Make it Stick! by Brown, Roediger and McDaniel is a great resource. For students, the last chapter is full of strategies for implementing the strategies discussed. Maybe distill it into an inforgraphic?
Also check out Retrieval Practice: https://www.retrievalpractice.org/
I'm looking forward to seeing what others share. You are correct Amanda, it's an excellent sign when we can post a request because our colleagues want to explore OER.
There are two adaptations of College Success from our university on this site - http://openpress.usask.ca/

I’m both a librarian, the coordinator of our college success course, and the chair of our OER task force.

I use this book, too: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=9 and really like it.

However, one half of our course is focused on health and wellness. While many of the college success and study skills books have a little on that topic, if there are whole entire OER books you can recommend that cover health and wellness all by itself I’d like to know about those titles.

Of course, please keep sharing additional college success/study skills OER books.

There’s a great Coursera course by UC San Diego on “Learning how to Learn” - https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn/home/

Not openly licensed AFAIK, but may be of help. It covers some great topics on hacking your own capacity to learn even intimidating and complex topics.

The California Community College Online Education Initiative created some CC BY Online Readiness Modules that are not only very good and address varying learning preferences, but they are also 508-compliant. The URL to take a look at them is: http://apps.3cmediasolutions.org/oei/

Teaching Professions

I’m looking for resources for an Intro to Teaching Professions class geared towards future Texas educators. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This Foundations of Education book was created at SUNY Oneonta and piloted this semester. While we expect to do extensive revisions based on feedback from the pilot instructors, but you are welcome to this draft version. It was made for the first class in our Education program as an introduction to teaching.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-oneonta-education106/

Does anyone know of OER on the subject of teaching as a career?
I'm trying to support a very OER-positive colleague in our teacher ed department, but I can't figure out a search which works:
"teaching" and "teacher" are used too much in many OER which are far from what I want;
"career" not quite as much, but also not great.

Here are two OER on education:
Introduction to Education (BETA): Becoming a Professional
Authors: Jennifer Beasley and Myra Haulmark
is licensed CC BY-SA (you can use and modify, but must keep the same license)

I have a couple faculty who use
Brown's Useful Guide: Where Theory Becomes Applicable to Classroom Practice
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16doCTRSVbDqciHluZlb7JhHLWUbE43oR/view
The Noblest Profession: the fundamentals and philosophy of teaching
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lGHBfoPC8mMnVpIFauct8glWrSXajOWg/view

Technology

Does anyone know of any good OER resources that related to technology integration in the K-12 classroom
(21st century classroom). This is for a class being taught to pre-service teachers/education majors at a community college on things to know about integrating technology into the classroom.
Content includes Being a 21st Century Teacher, Transforming Learning, Digital Citizenship, Social Media in the Classroom, ISTE standards, Developing Curriculum with Technology,
Reliability/Validity/Info Literacy, etc.

Try https://tech.ed.gov/open/

I would like to build a list of open resources (textbooks, supplementals, apps) related to Educational Technology. (I have Dr. Wiley’s “PM 4 ID” on the list).

For ed tech resources, try http://edtechbooks.org/books_all

I’m looking for an OER for preservice teachers for a class - Introduction to Technology for Teachers.
Currently we are using a print book – Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching by Roblyer and Hughes. In some sections we are using Teaching in a Digital Age by Bates, but this text does not seem a good fit for my community college students.

A couple of years ago I created a community-college Educational Technology course and released it under CC.
It was designed as a faculty learning community with learning activities largely directed by individual students' interests. For example, students were given the task of exploring the contributions of a leader in the field and reporting back to the cohort. Or, using a free online tool to create classroom materials, and reviewing it for suitability and ease of use. The course makes extensive use of discussion boards and comprehensive rubrics. The midterm and final exams are open-ended and ask, "What have you learned and how will this impact your career as a teacher?"
The course was reviewed by Quality Matters and received a score of 96/99. Links to the Blackboard Learn course archive and Common Cartridge export are below. Note that materials linked from the course may not be OER.
Common cartridge: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByMeCxf_whVRc3B3RWdjbHIyS1E/view?usp=sharing
Blackboard Learn: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByMeCxf_whVRN0cwdHZ0NWIzS2s/view?usp=sharing

Tutoring

My Learning Center staff are fully engaged in converting their courses to OER/ZTC, with the tutoring practicum course being the next one on the list. I’m attaching the course outline of record to give folks an idea of what is taught in this course.
In doing a browse through LibreTexts Education and Professional Development library, Pressbooks and a few other spots, nothing jumped out at me as fitting with this course. But maybe I missed something? Are there suggestions out there?

Would this one work for you?
Tutor Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Tutoring Skills by Penny Feltner and James R. Gapinski

Engineering

Anyone have leads for a Mechanical Engineer Open Textbook?
Might be something useful in the INTECH library http://www.intechopen.com/subjects/mechanical-engineering/books/all/1/grid

I am trying to help our vocational technician training program find OER textbooks covering introductory AC and DC circuitry. Any suggestions where to look?

Here are links to materials currently in use at Oregon community colleges:
Basic Electronics 1: DC Circuit Analysis playlist (54 free online lectures) Author: Jim Pytel, NSF ATE CREATE and Columbia Gorge Community College
Electrically Controlled Systems playlist (50+ free online lectures) Author: Jim Pytel, NSF ATE CREATE and Columbia Gorge Community College
All About Circuits, Vol.1: Direct Current (DC). This work is shared under a Design Science License (more info on the license here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html ).
Linn-Benton Community College in-house videos

There are a couple of DC and AC circuit books on this link: http://www.codlrc.org/OA/texts#titles
I haven’t heard anything about them, but just happened to come across them in a separate search, so I’m passing them on.

I’m looking for an introductory engineering book / resource that would cover:
What is engineering?
What do engineers do?
What are the different disciplines within engineering and what do they do?

The CK12 book may be a good starting point. http://www.ck12.org/book/Engineering%3A-An-Introduction-for-High-School/
Original source: CK12
Licensing: CC-BY-NC
While it is focused for a high school level and does not cover all of your topics, the open licensing allows you to revise and remix. It might be a great start for an intro course.

I have a professor who's interested in engineering OER texts, particularly drafting and engineering design. I'm not seeing much in those two areas. Is anyone aware of resources for these?
Engineering is a difficult area. I recently searched for OER for our entire engineering curriculum. I've attached my search spreadsheet for our Engineering Graphics course. There are four sheets/tabs in the Excel file attached. The library resources tab may have ebooks or articles for which your library has access.

(Rachel Dilley <racheldilley87@gmail.com >) The University of North Dakota has had a few faculty in Engineering creating OERs, but so far, it’s been 1 or 2 OERs each in Electrical, Mechanical, Petroleum, and Geological Engineering. We have a few faculty in Engineering who are really enthused about OERs, but we’re still a bit early in this – we’ve been doing OERs for less than 3 years.

Does anyone know of any OER specifically for engineering programs?

LIbreTexts and MERLOT both have engineering discipline groups:
https://eng.libretexts.org/
and
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/Engineering.htm
You will find a lot of OER engineering materials there,

Electrical Engineering Technology

I have an EET instructor seeking OER content on circuits (RC, DC), preferably video but text would also work, that truly registers at the community college level. The majority of what we’ve found speaks to the bachelor’s level and uses calculus, whereas the courses in question use algebra.

Have you checked out Jim Pytel's work at CGCC? http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=pytel

Material Science

I am working with a professor who is very interested in using an open textbook for her Introduction to Material Sciences class. I have combed through many OER and OA directories, repositories, and websites but have not found anything that fits her course needs. I am wondering if anyone is aware of any textbooks in development.
She is also looking for an introductory materials science textbook in Arabic.

We have a Material Sciences chapter in our OER by Discipline Directory.

This may be of useful. We have been harvesting University of Cambridge TLP content into our Engineering library for this purpose:
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Materials_Science
These modules are supplemented by about 30-40 Materials Sci modules created as part of several Open Pedagogy projects facilitated by the LibreTexts at UC Davis. We have several faculty interested in this field in our fold. Let me know if you need any help in putting together a proper OER text. All LibreTexts content is remixible as OER should be.

Related to this, a colleague is asking for OERs in Introduction to Engineering, or Introduction to Engineering Technology. (We're a two-year school.) I remember looking a couple of years ago and not finding much.

We have bits and pieces spread over 16,719 pages of OER content on our Engineering library ( https://eng.libretexts.org )
that can be rapidly remixed into a general engineering text (using our Remixer) depending on the level of complexity you desire.
Also, while we haven't formally announced our new K12 library,
but we are hosting Ck-12's high school engineering text (https://k12.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Science_and_Technology/Engineering%3A_An_Introduction_for_High_School) as a basic presentation.

English

American Literature

One of our faculty is looking for OER textbooks or novels in American Literature. She said she has looked in the usual places but all she found are pdf attachments.

I would point them to this page - https://louis.oercommons.org/curated-collections/108

Thank you for reaching out. We do not have an American Literature course package however our
English Comp II course does have a couple of Literature modules. Let me know if anything in there looks useful to you.

You may find what you are looking for in the LibreTexts' Literature section:
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Literature_and_Literacy
Authors can use our remixer tech to quickly customize a book from over 1/2 million pages (not all literature) over 15 libraries.

Here are the American Literature listings we have in the ASCCC OERI English collection:

Creation Myths

One of our faculty members is looking for an anthology of creation myths, ideally with an emphasis on mother/earth (often paired with father/sky).
We want a collection of primary sources, and I am stuck. Any suggestions?

I don't have any direct suggestions, but one of my go to people for teaching Mythology is Laura Gibbs,
very active on twitter @OnlineCrsLady and blogs
http://lauragibbs.net/
She is doing a lot of work these days with source in the internet archive.

In addition to Alan's suggestion, there are a few more possible sources for you here:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=myth

We do not have an American Literature course package however our English Comp II course does have a couple of Literature modules.

Composition

I was curious if anyone has found a good OER text for a WR122/Composition II course. I am working with About Writing by Robin Jeffrey for a WR121/Composition I course, but I'd like to see if other writing/composition instructors have found anything else for the next level up.

I like Writing for Success and Writing in College: from Competence to Excellence. Links are below.
http://open.lib.umn.edu/writingforsuccess/
http://textbooks.opensuny.org/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence/ For our ATD OER Degree Grant, one of our English professors is seeking a truly open text for his English Composition II course. In his words:
“Ideally, I am looking for texts that offer writing theory that is up to date, fairly challenging, and succinct. I like chapters in the 15-25 page length.”
“In terms of topics, recent articles about technology, medicine (stem-cell research), culture, and the environment are all good bets.”

The best examples he has come up with, both by Charles Bazeman, are too restrictive to meet the grant. ND as a permission restriction is a deal killer.
A Rhetoric of Literate Action: Literate Action Volume 1 - CC BY-NC-ND
http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=307

The Informed Writer – no CC designation given – restricted non-commercial and non-derivative, no republishing - http://writing.colostate.edu/textbooks/informedwriter/
Anyone have any thoughts regarding something that fits these requirements and is either CC 0, CC BY, or CC BY SA?

Hi Peter, I'm not sure if this fits the criteria, but he might want to take a look at Jenn Kepka's Oregon Writes Open Writing Text. FYI, Amy
Rhetoric and Composition
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Rhetoric_and_Composition

I’m working with an instructor new to OER who is seeking an OER (or perhaps several) that addresses these areas:
-writing essays about poetry, drama and literary fiction
-applying techniques and schools of literary criticism (feminist, Marxist, critical race theory—these are just examples) to writing essays

Might be of use--here is a playlist of videos (with CC licenses) that I've made around using writing/reading literature: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZptnQ98JwtXBpSG4-6D-LC_egJiL1_j

I am working with a rhet & comp faculty member who has been seeking an OER alternative to Pearson's "Pathways: Writing Scenarios" and
"Expressways: Writing Scenarios" with MyWritingLab -- as well as potential alternatives to NoRedInk, which has been buggy for his students --
for use in dev ed and adult basic education reading and writing courses, particularly for co-req courses in conjunction with credit-bearing English courses.
This instructor is particularly interested in an online reading/writing lab alternative for his students for asynchronous use and writing practice.
I have collected many resources over the years on our library's Writing OER Subject Guide, but of course,
it's difficult to replicate the course platform experience of Pearson's MyWriting Lab and its asynchronous writing aids.
I have also recently come across Lumen's English Composition I Corequisite course,
and Regent University's case study in creating their own alternative to Pearson's MyWriting Lab, a site/tool called RUwrite.
Has anyone had experience with these resources, or used or created other openly licensed or open access alternatives to MyWriting Lab,
or even alternatives to NoRedInk? Is anyone using something that hasn't been shared in the "usual" OER places/repositories?
I want to make sure I'm covering my bases!

You might also consider https://hippocampus.org/ . The NROC English learning objects are both very good but also fully accessible.--

Critical Thinking
I’m assisting an English faculty member looking for an OER alternative for From Critical Thinking to Argument.
We’ve looked at How Arguments Work, Writing and Critical Thinking Through Literature and a handful of others
but the content coverage isn’t what they’re looking for. (For what it’s worth, the initial test they use is to look for the terms "ethos," "post hoc" and "Toulmin.”)
If you have suggestions please send them my way.

This is by far the best text I have found which actually teaches Toulmin logic and argument. They are rare, so I’m glad you reached out. It covers the appeals and logical fallacies as well, so should meet your faculty’s criteria. I hope this helps.
Critical Thinking https://mhcc.pressbooks.pub/wr122/
These are things Oregon’s WR122 course focuses on,
so you might check the OpenOregon website for what other faculty are using as well. https://openoregon.org/resources/

You likely know this, but just in case. There are many pages on the LibreTexts other than those two books.
If you do a search for those three terms, you find several dozen pages on the Humanities library that are likely relevant for your search
(this is one powerful aspect of meta-tagging at the page-level of multiple OER texts within a centralized platform like ours).
https://human.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=ethos&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
https://human.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=post+hoc&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
https://human.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=Toulmin&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves

If a specific collection of pages (e.g., premade textbook) doesn't do it for you, we can help construct a customized text using these pages.
If one follows the organization of your original source book, then we call that remix a textbook map and there are best practices we can provide you.
An alternative is what Los Rios CC district, a member of our growing LibreNet consortium, is doing with us.
They are using faculty to build Course Reports (aka Remixing Maps) that student remixers on our side will make into a reality (see https://youtu.be/hqbsDk1pygA ).

I am the author of one of the books you mention, How Arguments Work, and also the English Discipline Lead for the ASCCC OER Initiative.
I know of one other OER textbook besides mine that covers the English C-ID 105 curriculum in rhetoric:
Informed Arguments: A Guide to Writing and Research. I would love to see more OER options in the field.
I also wonder if your faculty member would be willing to take another look at How Arguments Work.
I have taken the student-centered, equity-minded approach of using everyday terms rather than technical rhetorical vocabulary whenever possible.
My book does cover the concepts they mention extensively but scarcely mentions the terms
"ethos," "Toulmin," or "post hoc." Toulmin argumentation is covered in Chapter 2: Reading to Figure out the Argument,
which describes argument mapping, and Section 4.4, which talks about warrants using the term "assumptions."
Section 4.5 gives a taxonomy of fallacies, including what I call doubtful cause (though I just updated that to put post hoc ergo propter hoc in parentheses.)
Another advantage of How Arguments Work is that we offer Canvas ancillary resources like self-grading quizzes and essay assignments.
A search on Canvas Commons for How Arguments Work will turn up a course shell with all of these.
It would be great if you invited your faculty member to email me with any questions or feedback about how my book covers rhetorical principles.
I am currently looking for collaborators to work on adding to it this summer if they are interested.
Thanks,
Anna Mills

Digital Writing
My college is developing a new (for us!) course in "digital writing" or maybe "writing for digital media" – you get the idea – and we'd really love to design it using OER materials.
I've been searching around for materials of this sort in the usual places I'd find complete OER stuff, and I keep striking out. If you have suggestions for me, I'd welcome them!

Two suggestions from the marketing side of digital writing:

1) Check out Part Three (Chapters 9 -13) of Red & Yellow's eMarketing book. The book is CC BY-NC-SA.
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RY_eMarketing_ed7.pdf
2) eCampus Ontario has a comprehensive set of digital files for their Digital Media and Marketing Communications course.
Modules 4 and 5 contain text and activities related to content development for digital media. If you click on the Download link, you can get a zip file of all resources.
The materials are CC BY.
https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/item-details/#/8c10f99e-55c1-4ae8-8808-3f7499996a59

OpenStax offers a free, online, OER textbook — Writing Guide with Handbook — which may suit your course needs.
This textbook aligns with the goals, topics, and objectives of most first-year writing and composition courses.
One of the book's themes is "Information and media literacy," and the text even guides students through the process of creating a portfolio.

Some chapters that may be particularly useful include:
Chapter 1: The Digital World: Building on What You Already Know to Respond Critically
Chapter 18: Multimodal and Online Writing: Creative Interaction between Text and Image
Chapter 17: Image Analysis: What You See
Chapter 7: Evaluation or Review: Would You Recommend It?
Chapter 14: Annotated Bibliography: Gathering, Evaluating, and Documenting Sources
Additionally, the text highlights the work of prominent individuals who work in genres like newspapers, visual arts, and films through the "Genre Trailblazer" feature.

English 101:

English 101 Text
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/english-composition-1
Grammar and Punctuation Practice
http://www.sandhills.edu/academic-departments/english/grammarguide.html
Another English 101 Text
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence-open-suny-textbooks/view
Annie Dillard's "Sight into Insight"
http://dcrit.sva.edu/wp-content/uploads/1974/01/Seeing.pdf
George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant"
http://orwell.ru/library/articles/elephant/english/e_eleph
Joan Didion's "On Keeping a Notebook"
https://www.penusa.org/sites/default/files/didion.pdf

I’m looking for OER textbooks that would work for my college’s English 101 (Composition) and English 102 (Literature and Composition). I have checked the suggestions the index for this listserv, but nothing there would meet our needs. I have also found about 11 general OER composition textbooks so far, but all of them are either under-developed or too advanced for our courses. Is there anything else out there? I have not found any textbooks suitable for our Literature and Composition course (which focuses on analysis of literary works in the major genres).

I asked one of our staff members (thank you Fred) to pull the resources we were recently looking at for our English courses. Hope this helps.
Resources:
https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=43
Lumen courses:

Level 1: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp1v2xmaster/
Level 2: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp2kscopexmaster/
http://writingcommons.org/ is a great secondary source for students to use in tandem with their textbook. It covers very specific portions of academic writing that I find students often have questions on when coming in for tutoring. There are video lectures to accompany the text. It also covers literary theory which she may find useful for her literature/102 course.

Database for older public domain literature project https://www.gutenberg.org/

I know there are myriad OER's for a basic textbook for an English 101/intro to comp course. But I'm looking to see what's out there for interactive adult learner native speaking grammar quizzes/exercises that can work well as a supplement to the course. So much of the grammar/quiz stuff is clearly aimed at K-12 or non-native speakers. There's gotta be something targeted towards adult learners who need individual practice with syntax and sentence building skills.

The Grammar Essentials section of the Excelsior Online Writing Lab https://owl.excelsior.edu/grammar-essentials/ could be a help.

I want to add more Latinx writers to my reading list for Engl 101. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I can find OER essays or articles by Latinx writers?

If your library or state subscribes to EBSCO Academic, JSTOR or other databases that have fulltext magazine articles, you could search for favorite writers that have published essays in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Rolling Stone, or others. Then you can link to those essays in your learning management system. Your library or state has already paid for you to have access to these writings so you might as well use them with your students!
As an example, I searched for the author, Isabel Allende. Among other places, she has fulltext articles in Good Housekeeping, the Journal of Modern Literature, and the New York Times Magazine. I also found short stories and poems by Allende and others published in literary magazines and in fulltext in the databases.
These may not be OER examples but they are “free” through your library!

It's kind of tricky sometimes to identify essays by Latinx writers if they are writing about topics unrelated to culture or race.
There's one in 88 Open Essays (#32 by Linda González.) You might try The Conversation and Yes!. The essays on both sites have CC licenses.

Contemporary Short Stories

Search on behalf of a colleague. They're looking for:
> Short prose (fiction or non), preferably 21st century, outside of the mainstream cishet white Euro-American experience.
Nonwhite writers, LBGTQIA writers, immigrants & refugees, indigenous writers, work from around the globe and from ignored and/or oppressed minorities anywhere.
I'm decolonizing a short-stories class, making it intentionally global and intersectional, and I'll take anything for which I can document a source!
The course is a rebuild of a previous "Contemporary Short Stories" class.
The description reads: "Short Reads 21st-century stories and other short writings from around the world, with a focus on current social, cultural, and global issues."
The instructor is hoping to cast a pretty broad net, emphasizing a broad diversity of lived experience with some teachable examples of the basic elements of literature.

Portland Community College developed short story workbooks for ESOL students that may have relevant content: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Short%20Story

Critical Reading and Writing

I am in the witching hour before textbook reqs are due and am desperately hoping to find some great resources for our English faculty teaching the Critical Reading and Writing course.
I have a vast repository of resources compiled which could be possible but these are overwhelming to go through at this late hour.
I don’t know the discipline well enough to be confident in what I whittle out and am terrified I could think a resource not pertinent and it’s actually fabulous.
Do you have any awesome choices I can offer up.
Top 3 complete resources I can present. The course description is below as well as the current text adoptions.

Try these:

Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking

Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research

By the Ohio State University Libraries. CC-BY.

Exploring Perspectives: A Concise Guide to Analysis

by Randall Fallows. CC-BY-NC-SA.

The Information Literacy User's Guide

by Debora Bernnard, Greg Bobish, Daryl Bullis, Jenna Hecker, Irina Holden, Allison Hosier, Trudi Jacobson, and Tor Loney. CC-BY-NC-SA.

The Process of Research Writing

by Steven Krause. CC-BY-NC-SA.

Writing For Success

by Anonymous (due to previous publisher's requirement.) CC-BY-NC-SA.

Writing In College: From Competence to Excellence

by Amy Guptill. CC-BY-NC-SA.

Diversity and Inclusion

The English faculty at my college are working on their COR for transfer English, and they are looking to include OER “rhetorics or readers
that have been compiled/edited/written by a person of color or someone of diverse perspective/voice.”
I steered them towards 88 Open Essays. Anything else out there that fits this description?

A resource faculty at Skyline College have identified is My Slipper Floated Away (2020, CUNY, CC-BY-NC-ND)

English of Academic Purposes

I am looking for OERs on English for Academic Purposes. Are there any out there that your institutions use?

You may want to check this:
https://learn.saylor.org/course/index.php?categoryid=11 (English courses at Saylor)

Thanks, Barthelemy! Simone, if you look at any Saylor English course, look for the "Resources" link on the left of the page to see all the resources on one page -- makes browsing a bit easier.
There are a couple open textbooks as well:
https://writingcommons.org/
https://www.saylor.org/books/#comm

You might also look at Bad Ideas about Writing here: https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf

There are three options listed under English Language Learning in the eCampusOntario Open Textbook Library: https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=English%20Language%20Learning

Ethical Research

I've found plenty of OER materials at the English 101 level with a handful of chapters about ethical research, but are there any OERs that focus only/specifically on ethical research?

Treasa, I searched MERLOT using "ethical research" as a term and found the following. They may not all be relevant, but you might look through these. Also, from MERLOT you can search other libraries if you click on Other Libraries at the top of the page:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=ethical+research&sort.property=relevance

You said you found chapters, which leads me to think you've already discovered OSU's Choosing and Using Sources, but I thought I'd send it along just in case. Chapter 7 is on ethical research.

Here's the link - https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/choosingsources/front-matter/introduction/

Fairy Tales

I'm working with a professor who teaches a class on feminism and fairy tales, and she is looking for open resources for fairy tales, especially non Western ones to read in her class. Right now, the main priority is finding versions of stories themselves.
So far the resources I've found have been Open Folklore ( https://openfolklore.org/ ) for ideas, then FairyTalez.com ( https://fairytalez.com/ ) to see examples of stories out there, then the Hathi Trust to find original versions of the books the stories are in. However, most of the stories I'm finding that way are by early 20th century white authors writing for a white audience - certainly interesting to analyse, but I'm wondering it there's better representation out there.
Does anyone have ideas on where to look next for resources on fairy tales?

Not specifically fairy-tale, but our OER-veteran English instructor Trish Nelson relies heavily on this website ( http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm ) for the myth/theory section of her composition and reading class. She says it has some great folklore.

Thank you everyone! I felt like I was hitting a wall, but now I'm excited to get back to the professor - so many of these look perfect. I've had a few people share directly with me, so here are the materials I have compiled: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hv05lPOJlEcyAZ_Vd9pTwNtQFH6tY_ZD8u_C9wXTuvo/edit#

Grammar

Does anyone know of any free or open grammar tools to check for grammatical errors and sentence structure?

Try https://www.grammarly.com/ . I ask all of my students to use it before submitting their assignments. It's particularly helpful for ESL / EFL speakers.
Grammarly has a plug-in and it works within learning management systems and other software
Grammar Bytes is also useful http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
From an earlier query, I learned about an openly licensed tool for diagramming sentences: https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/humanities/linguistics/wcn8207/diagramming-sentences
I tried Grammarly.com and had mixed results. I wrote a sample including multiple errors. Grammarly picked up a lot--spacing, s/v agreement (present tense), its/it is, spelling errors. However, it didn't fix sentence boundaries (a big disappointment), s/v agreement in past tense, all there/their/they're errors, unparallel lists, etc. On balance, I still think it's useful, but would warn students that it misses a lot.

Central New Mexico Community College is working on creating a supplementary grammar guide to support our English OER! As we begin the process, I thought I would ask if anyone has created or knows about any CC licensed English grammar quizzes? We are hoping to supplement the guide with built in quizzes.

The University of Victoria has created an English Language Centre Study Zone that includes a grammar section. The description for this tool says: The Study Zone is for students of the English Language Centre (ELC) at the University of Victoria. ELC teachers create the English language lessons and practice exercises. The site is designed for our adult English language learners, but all are welcome to read the lessons and use the exercises.
This tool/content is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA.

Chauna Ramsey at Columbia Gorge Community College has shared her grammar assessments: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/conventions101/

Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL) has an index of writing and reading activities along with other writing resources. All licensed CCBY.
Instructions on how to embed exercises are available here: https://owl.excelsior.edu/educator-resources/embed-activities/

You'll find some homegrown OER at Scottsdale CC's resource hub related to composition:
Grammar Workbook with activities: https://employee.scottsdalecc.net/thehub/developmental-composition-2/
Common Errors Assessment: https://employee.scottsdalecc.net/thehub/grammar-mechanics-and-usage/

I got the following proposal from the Tutoring Center who would like to create a Grammar Lab of sorts using OER.
The Tutoring Center is interested in creating an OER grammar lab.
This Grammar Lab would contain interactive exercises broken into categories according to specific grammar points and verb tenses. This OER Grammar Lab would benefit all students at the college who struggle with writing and grammar. This would include all English Language Learners at the college --both who are in the ESL program and those taking classes at the college level in general. It is geared towards scaffolding students with English grammar practice. Ideally, each grammar point or verb tense would start with an overview (written/video) and then would contain auto corrected exercises to instill that particular grammar point that was reviewed. Students may be referred or required to attend the Grammar Lab from any teacher, coach, tutor, or the student can self-select themselves.
The Grammar Lab would be a compilation of free resources from the various OER sites,
enabling students not to incur any additional cost to overcome any grammar obstacles they may encounter while pursuing their academic goals.
Questions for the group: Does anyone know if something like this already exists out there?
or Does anyone know of or have resources that could be useful to create this grammar lab?

Our Learning Center has some of these courses, and uses the Purdue OWL site for a number of their tutorials and mini-courses.
(Our ESL and English faculty also love using this site.) I’ve heard tell that there might be Canvas modules and content on the Canvas Commons from them—I haven’t investigated, but it might be worth looking at, if you campus uses Canvas as the LMS.

Here's where you can browse through ESOL resources created/used in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL
Our instructors are doing awesome work in this area! I hope you're able to reuse some of their materials.

We have several dozen H5P assessments our central LibreStudio repository: https://studio.libretexts.org/library?tags=ESL
These can be used formatively (directly) or summatively (through the ADAPT homework system).

Identity Related Readings

I have an English professor seeking OER-related nonfiction articles related to identity issues. Any ideas? I know we can also use library database articles as no-cost which would also work but other sources would be helpful to help her build a better unit for argumentation.

88 Open Essays has six articles on identity. Search using #selfdiscovery. There are many excellent articles in The Conversation and YES! magazine that are openly-licensed and often address issues of identity.

Columbus State Community College recently dumped the Norton Anthology for all Comp I and II courses in favor of a LibGuide with linked readings. We have an identity page in our guide:
https://library.cscc.edu/compreadingbank/identity

Life of an Amorous Woman

Translated and published in 1963 by Ivan Morris (who died in 1976).
I have checked the Copyright records and didn't find a renewal, but I am also not able to find it in Project Gutenberg or any other online sources.
Does anyone have a clue where I can find an open source of this title for our English department?

The preview on this page ( https://www.worldcat.org/title/life-of-an-amorous-woman-and-other-writings-edited-and-translated-by-ivan-morris/oclc/2465195 ) claims it's copyrighted. If the copyright for the translation was allowed to lapse in 1991, it seems like somebody would've noticed it ...
I couldn't find renewal record either (downloaded data set here, https://exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals?q= , and searched through for keywords I could think of), but it's possible I somehow missed it in about 20 minutes' search.
According to the preview, the copyright is by Unesco---if copyright was held by an organization, it doesn't seem like they would have let it lapse (unlike if it was held by an individual author/translator, who could have no longer cared enough about the work to let it lapse).

It's on Open Library and Internet Archive. You'll just have to join the "waitlist" for it, but it looks like there would be only one person ahead of you. Check it out: https://archive.org/details/lifeofamorouswo00ihar

Linguistics

Any suggestions for an OER that introduces Linguistics? This would be for an American Sign Language class--so it doesn't have to be super in-depth.

There is a title on BC Campus that might work:
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=f934dfef-66b0-4533-8bb4-7daaf8e94900&contributor&keyword&subject

Another option could be

Wikibooks Linguistics

Literature

A fellow faculty member and I are designing an Introduction to Literature course. We are having difficulty finding materials on schools of literary criticism and important theorists with CC licensing. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ( http://www.iep.utm.edu/ ) would be a great example of the type of resource we are looking for. Unfortunately, it is not CC. Any suggestions for resources on major schools of literary theory/criticism and important thinker would very much appreciated.
Places to find post-1950 open source texts would also be helpful.
Here are 150+ links I assembled for students when I was teaching an Introduction to Literature course:
https://www.diigo.com/user/kschnapp/criticism
Some of the links are almost ten years old, so many could be dead.

You might know about these already, but University of Michigan has some books that could have useful material in them. (They seem to have CC-BY-NC-ND licenses, though.)
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=etlc;c=etlc;idno=9362034.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;xc=1;g=dculture
You might also try Bloomsbury Open Access publishing: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/academic/open-access/
It's not the easiest thing to search, but they used to have a number of explorations of literature in that collection.
Although like any academic publisher, the sources mentioned above are mostly going to be a little too much for an introductory lit crit class.
I've always wanted to see if I could build a class on Literary Criticism using open access journals. I've not had the time, but I think it might be fun to explore that opportunity. If you want to try that approach, I would start with the Directory of Open Access Journals: doaj.org.

I’ve taken a look at what’s listed on Larry Green’s index under English, but I am also seeking – for a faculty member – information on what others are using for OER Introduction to Literature courses. I’ve found Lumen’s course, and will search Canvas Commons, (we use Canvas) but if anyone is using something beyond those, I’d love to hear about it!

Hi Megan, you can see what's being used in Oregon here: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=eng%20
I am currently curating all required readings for six English literature courses at our college to find all public domain literature assigned in each of these classes. What is hopeful about this, there is a great overlap. When it is not in PD I am looking for legal access to copyrighted readings either in our database collection or online. As a third step I am asking authors/publishers for royalty-free reuse permission or for them to consider donating a work to the creative commons. As of now, I am working in Google docs to gather all the readings. Faculty who teach these courses may edit down PD material to fit their needs, but mostly I am looking for poems, short stories, essays, and short criticisms. I am working from selections in several traditional anthologies from Macmillan and Norton. The classes range from American Literature to World Literature to English Composition. I have exactly one class set-up in our LibGuides. If the other professors adopt what I find, I am not sure how it will be presented, but the highest enrollment course, English Composition II, will not go without a print book option. With a mix of PD, CC-license, and proprietary I do not think I will convince that department to go OER. I think they will adopt a reader of the more recent highly desirable readings they want and go with that and be happy. But I am still striving to convince them they can do OER and do without sacrificing good, diverse, contemporary literature. I need an author or publisher to say OK to a single CC-licensed poem/short story/essay from one major author within their catalog, i.e. Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, Raymond Carver, John Updike, Zora Neale Hurston, Edwidge Danticat, etc. I think it can be done, I think it needs more backing from someone bigger than me. I think if there was a universal consensus on which works those should be and we as an OER community can ask in a bigger, more public way, it could happen.
Happy to share my Google Docs. Thanks, Alexis Carlson

Ours is a “Literature Through the Humanities” course (LIT2000), and was recently developed for our Achieving the Dream OER AA degree pathways grant. We attribute 46 sources in this course, so there is no single open resource used. This list includes some LibraVox readings of some of the pieces. At some point in the not too distant future, Lumen Learning should have our course content available for others to see/use, etc.

The faculty member who served as our Subject Matter Expert (SME) used 6 readings (in Module 5) from the Harlem Renaissance as a way to utilize a more modern literary and artistic movement to provide a greater mix of authors and content. The combination of readings for each module, original writing by the SME, journals, essays and discussion forums makes up our course.
In the meantime, below are the course module topics. I’d be happy to provide more info offline if you would like it.

Modules
1 - The Reader and the Text
2 – Responding to Fiction
3 – The Art of Poetry
4 – The Art of Tragic Drama
5 – The Text and the World: The Harlem renaissance, a Case Study
6 – Research for Literary Analysis

Recently I had an English Writing and Literature professor ask me about OERs for English literature courses focusing on contemporary, modern works. Might anyone have any ideas?

An OASIS search on Literature turns up a rather large selection: https://oasis.geneseo.edu/basic_search.php?search=literature
Modern literature is all more than likely going to be clearly under copyright, and the amounts needed for a literature course likely far exceed what any judge would agree is fair use (remember, fair use is a legal defense, not an affirmative right). But it may well be that someone has already gone to the effort of getting permission for specific uses.
Proceed carefully, as the reproduction rights may be different for each work.

If a campus has robust, archival periodical subscriptions, it would be possible to create an OER alternative by having the literature readings be links to short stories, poems and essays published first in magazines and journals. Flannery O’Connor, Robert Frost and many other great fiction writers and poets published their writings first in literary magazines and it would be possible to link to those writings if a campus has the library holdings.

An instructor is looking for materials on Women in Literature, that would be comparable to The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English (3rd edition, volume 2) (2007) by S. Gilbert and S. Gubar (ISBN 978-0393930146).
Since we have transitioned to online courses, she apparently needs to start using Lumen Learning's courseware, but they don't appear to have one specifically for her needs.
I have done some preliminary searching, but would like to see if anything else may be available. Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

It looks like a lot of the contents of that Norton anthology are pre-1924 and therefore in the public domain. Project Gutenberg is a good place to start a search for those works: https://www.gutenberg.org/
Robin DeRosa's anthology is a great example of assigning students to fill in the contextual material to support the primary sources: https://openamlit.pressbooks.com/
For work that is currently under copyright, I recommend working with a librarian to find out what you may have access to via your databases.

In case it's helpful, I shared your note with my stepmother (who has a forthcoming CC licensed book on 19th Century novelist, Catharine Sedgwick), and she wrote the following note pasted below. Omeka.Net website content is CC BY NC licensed, by the way.
"My book project is on hold, alas, but I highly recommend the growing website archive of Catharine Sedgwick's Short Stories that Prof. Deborah Gussman is leading (I'm one of the co-editors). https://sedgwickstories.omeka.net/
A couple of Sedgwick's short stories have appeared in earlier editions of the Norton Anthology--recently the NAAL has just published excerpts from her best-known novel. Using these stories would work well for the research and contextualizing assignment mentioned in one of the two emails you forwarded. I've used her stories frequently in my first- and second-year writing courses (What in the story needs an explanatory note? How do you create a useful one?, etc.)"

If you have access to JSTOR or other magazine archives, many stories by Flannery O'Connor and other authors were originally published in literary magazines such as the "New Yorker" or the "Sewanee Review" which may be available in fulltext even if they are not yet in public domain. You could then link to them from your campus learning management system.

ProQuest’s Literature Online database also includes primary texts and could provide access to works by women.

I found the Table of Contents for the anthology in question available here: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393930146/about-the-book/table-of-contents . I did a quick scan and would venture a rough estimate that only around 1/3 of the texts included in that edition of the anthology would have been published in 1924 or before and would now reside in the public domain. It would be possible to produce an open access anthology replacement for these works, but much more difficult to do so for the other works, as many, if not all of them, would still be under copyright.

If an open anthology for the pre-1923 work is of interest, you may want to begin by speaking with people who have led or coordinated similar projects (i.e. Robin DeRosa, Tim Robbins, Julie Ward, folks at Rebus Community: https://www.rebus.community/t/project-summary-the-open-anthology-of-earlier-american-literature/428 , https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/chapter/case-study-antologia-abierta-de-literatura-hispanica/ + https://press.rebus.community/makingopentextbookswithstudents/chapter/case-study-expanding-open-anthology-of-earlier-american-literature/ ).

Besides 88 Open Essays and Lumen's Thematic Reading Anthology, is anyone aware of an open textbook that is an anthology of readings from a variety of genres, bonus if it is both fiction and non-fiction? One of our English Composition II faculty is looking to do a textbook replacement (as opposed to curating readings which the other faculty have done) for her course. Currently the course uses Arguing about Literature which mixes literary and non-literary readings in thematic organization. An Intro to Literature or other literary genre anthology would not be appropriate in this case as it is not a literature class, but rather a composition class that uses literature as the basis of most readings (it's a weird structure).

Hi Megan: My Creative Writing textbook might have pieces that work = http://bit.ly/NDSCS-Open-Folder . SO SORRY! I should’ve clarified; the textbook is called _Write or Left_.

Here is my directive from an ENG faculty member: "Yes. Find me an OER novel that is not 100 years old for ENG 1B and has multicultural perspective content."

This is a common challenge for Lit or any Humanities courses. I have a couple of recommendations, the Norton Libguide may be the best option. When it comes to literature, I do recommend a blend of OER and copyrighted materials. Whether they can be utilized under Fair Use practices, such as short stories, or added to the library’s eBook collection or some other more affordable option, utilizing today’s current and diverse voices in literature is important. Hopefully these sources can help your faculty member get closer to the content they are looking for. But working with your campus librarians to see what is in their collections already and what can possibly be added will enhance their ability to find a novel that works for their class.
88 Open Essays: a reader for students of composition and rhetoric
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/88-open-essays-a-reader-for-students-of-composition-rhetoric
Libguide to replace Norton Anthology for comp courses
https://library.cscc.edu/compreadingbank/identity
My Slipper Floated Away
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/actioncallout/5428a618-2dbc-4e67-9df1-ad3b69e7ae6c/attachment/original-420616bb0a7e3e56d7b5d7eef60ee653.pdf
Open Library
https://openlibrary.org/
Unglue - free ebooks
https://unglue.it/
An Anthology of Student Writing Collected at Lansing CC
https://ctl.openlcc.net/textbooks/writing-lcc/

I teach English and literature, and I teach an OER class (early British literature).
Sadly, the early literature isn't in a language that is understandable for a general population (i.e. Old English such as Beowulf or Middle English works like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight).
Yes, some of these works are available in OER, but the translations of these works are under copyright except for a few archaic translations that are often riddled with errors or written with difficult prose.

I taught Early British Literature this past fall semester and was pretty happy with using a combination of An Open Companion to British Literature and
British Literature: Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism.
The former was an open pedagogy project and includes student annotations to accompany the text (which helps with the older translations) and the latter has good historical period explanations.
Both include a wide range of texts.

This might not be the answer they are looking for or useful but it's what came to mind.
What about making this an open pedagogy project that helps future students?
Have the students start with and work with the lesser-quality texts/translations (maybe put into a Google doc) and have them do the research/annotations to improve the quality of the text.
The result is the opportunity to both engage with the lesser text but help them do a bit of what lit scholars do.

I'm currently building a Pressbook for Introduction to Literature and I've been looking through a variety of places for content (including the OERizona Commons hub). Do any of us have good instructional resources for Literature that they might be using that aren't on the hub and that you'd be willing to share for a remix project? Specifically, I'm looking for material addressing drama and fiction (I have tons of poetry material).

Have you seen these in the Pressbooks Directory?
Let's Read: A Collection of Texts for College Composition (VIVA)
An Introduction to the Analysis of Fiction (Saint Peter's University)
Prose Fiction (Indiana University)
Composition and Literature (BCcampus)
Introduction to Literature (University of West Florida)
American Literatures After 1865 (University of Missouri-Saint Louis)
American Literatures Prior to 1865 (University of Missouri-Saint Louis)
English Literature: Victorians and Moderns (BCcampus)
Modern World Literature: Compact Edition (Lake Superior College)
"Intro to Fiction" Anthology (Columbia Gorge Community College)

Music (writing about)

It looks like I will be developing some new online and hybrid courses this summer, and I'd like to use OER materials instead of requiring a textbook. I hope to develop a section of ENGL 102 with a theme of popular music, in which students will study the history of musical genres, styles, and artists and then conduct research on a music-related topic of their choosing.
For the research/writing part, a book I have used in the past is The Craft of Research. It would be great to find a comparable OER resource for this. I did some cursory searching of music history OER sources, and I found some leads, but I want to avoid materials that address discipline-specific components such as music theory and instrumentation.

A couple of the resources in use in Oregon might interest this faculty member: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=mus%20

Hello! Here are 2 resources:
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1002&context=bc_oers
http://library.com.edu/PDF/Americagov/AmericanPopularMusic.pdf

I don't know if this would work, but it's worth a look:
https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/arts-textbooks/1/

Novels

Does anybody know of a repository of modern OER novels that might be appropriate for an American Literature or International Literature course? I have a faculty member who is teaching those courses who would like to use OER novels which might be of interest to students. They are already aware of public domain classics and wants something that students “might actually find interesting.”
I already thought of Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Amazon Free eBooks, and Barnes & Noble Free eBooks.
If anybody could maybe provide me with even just a website that has a list of authors (Cory Doctorow was the only one I knew of), I would deeply appreciate the help.

If your library has a subscription to JSTOR or another magazine database that goes back in time, even EBSCO Academic Search, the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, and other literary magazines publish short stories and poems that are in fulltext. A few might even have a few serialized novels. I was able to find Flannery O’Connor short stories, for instance. They may not be OER but they would be free to access.

You might try https://unglue.it/
I see there are some novels there. But I haven’t read any of them. Still, worth a shot!

We offer The Internet Archive "Open Library" on our library website, having contemplated joining the organization then accepting their new open access during the pandemic.
Although not specifically an OER website, OER options are offered, depending on the book. Cory Doctorow is well represented, for instance. Check here: https://openlibrary.org/
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Poetry

- What I initially sent to the instructor:

I found an OpenLearn poetry course but the interface is so confusing that I hesitate to even recommend that you look at it.

Project Gutenberg has a list of public domain poetry anthologies here: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Poetry_(Bookshelf) and search results for "poetry anthology" here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=poetry+anthology&go=Go

- The instructor's wonderfully open-pedagogy-flavored reply:

Thanks! The more I think about it, the more I think I'll go ahead and commit to doing the class OER. And after all, I don't have to create it all ahead of time. I can have students research what the greatest poems are and help gather the texts. We learn better when we have choice and investment, after all, right?

- Additional ideas from the listservs:
Heather Ross suggested Robin DeRosa's Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature (not everything in the book is poetry). More info on the project: My Open Textbook: Pedagogy and Practice.
Kim Read suggested English Literature: Victorians and Moderns from BC Campus (contains other genres as well).
Jody Bailey suggested a google book search limited to before 1923. Search results (this is a long list!).
Cheryl Huff suggests a Bartleby poetry search and the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online (both are free but not open).

But wait, there's more...

Kristi Jensen suggested http://bartleby.com/verse/indexes.html and http://www.poemtree.com/index.html
Janelle Wertzberger sent a link to a course: http://eng111.iclarke.sites.gettysburg.edu/poetry/

And the instructor shared Genius--originally a crowdsourcing tool for analyzing rap lyrics. But it's grown to become so much more and now has tons of classic poems, annotated by readers. https://genius.com/search?q=poetry

Cheryl Huff suggests a Bartleby poetry search and the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online (both are free but not open).

An instructor is looking for an openly licensed resource to teach diagramming sentences. He wants to replace this copyrighted book (free but not open, possibly posted in violation of copyright): http://teachersites.schoolworld.com/webpages/lwalton/files/diagramming%20workbook.pdf
I sent him links to open textbooks with chapters on sentences: Sentence Building, Sentence Style, Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence?. He'd really like to find an online resource that would teach students to diagram - maybe even something cool and interactive.

Amy, my husband teaches ESL and some of his students love diagramming sentences, so he sends these:
https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/humanities/linguistics/wcn8207/diagramming-sentences (interactive)
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/diagrams2/diagrams_frames.htm
http://www.german-latin-english.com/diagrams.htm

ESL

Any recommendations for good open content for English Language Learners?
Here are videos made by Brett Myhren from Saddleback College in CA. The videos are all CC BY.
www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDtZe8N6oZ-nS0sZUDF5kw

Below are the resources that were shared in this mailing list before. Hope they help. :-)
COERLL, The University of Texas Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning ( http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/ )
BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English (Scroll down and you will see 5 books) https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Academic/Basic%20Upgrading

The OWL at Purdue has some resources:
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/5/
This open book has a chapter for English Language Learners:
http://open.lib.umn.edu/writingforsuccess/
This open book also has a pretty good chapter:
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://drive.google.com/a/pcc.edu/file/d/0B2vjQIMyjDswc0VQbnl6Y29ERGs/view&sa=D&ust=1450299200640000&usg=AFQjCNHppEBIzN9XrnN6cSwpRrOV1Fzeng
Materials for ESL? One of my faculty is asking, so I will pass along anything that comes my way.
My husband teaches ESL at our college, and he teaches fully OER. This is one favorite site: Athabasca U: http://eslau.ca/

Does anyone have information on low level ESL open source material?
Caron, my husband uses resources and materials from Athabasca U in teaching ESL here at GCC: http://write-site.athabascau.ca/
Hi Caron, here are a few ESOL options used in Oregon community colleges: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=esol

Does anyone one have Citizenship OER material for second language learners?

Here are some that we use for our citizenship class not for credit course

Listed below are the links for the USCIS citizenship materials, all the material are free and can be down loaded as PDF documents:
https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/educators/educational-products
https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/see-all-section-items-title/Beginning%20Level/55257?destination=node/41141
In addition, under the USCIS website educators tab there are other materials available for instructors.

For ESL and Citizenship materials, you might try the I-DEA materials at the OpenWashington hub in OER Commons.
Here is a link to Spring Quarter: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/25092-i-dea-spring-course-package/view

Here is a link to the whole project: https://www.oercommons.org/browse/featured-item/703?__hub_id=34&f.keyword=openwa-idea
I don't think it is truly OER, but we've had some folks run learning circles with second language learners who are taking the citizenship test using http://www.citizenshipstudyguide.com/member/us-citizenship-test-study-guide.php.

Here's a presentation of what they did at the Rhode Island public library with that course material.

I am working with a colleague to identify OER resources for ESL (English as a Second Language) material. She indicated she has found some grammar and composition items, but nothing for speaking and listening objectives. Thanks!
Hi Melody, here's what's known to be in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=esol

I have an instructor looking to develop a curriculum that simultaneously teaches language while preparing ESL students for their bridge into college. Some refer to this as contextualized instruction and some refer to it as English for Specific Purposes (ESP). So, it’s college readiness for speakers of languages other than English. She intends to use this at a community program outside the college which will help prepare these students for admission to our community college. I realize this is quite specific, so any OER related to college readiness or non-English speakers may be able to be adapted.

I recommend Dave Dillon's college success textbook: https://press.rebus.community/blueprint2/ . Dave remixes many open sources, so you can find more content through his links.
This is what I know to be in use for ESOL courses in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=esol

Does anyone know of an open textbook on Academic English for Bilingual Students?
Read Faster, Understand More: Advanced Academic Reading Skills for English Language Learners, Compiled by Timothy Krause
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Um6u1Nx8A06_Kp3dZKEBpCb8TRYYH-_I
I was wondering if anyone can share suggestions for ESL OER material?

Here are a few:
Citizenship Resources - US Immigration Services
Beginning Level - Citizenship Activities
Open Oregon ESL Resources

https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/owi/ = This helped me IMMENSELY with my writing classes; I think it could be useful for all instructors.

I have a faculty member looking for OER for ESL, specifically for reading/listening/speaking level 2 and grammar/writing level 3.

One of our faculty here at Iowa State has put together a textbook, "Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English," which fits most of the things your instructor
is looking for, apart from the writing section. You can access the book in Pressbooks at: iastate.pressbooks.pub/oralcommunication/

We have been building and harvesting ESL books for the past few years on our Humanities library (12 integrated and several more in preparation):

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages/English_as_a_Foreign_Language

Perhaps these will help. We also just harvested a set of H5P ESL exercises into our LibreStudio platform (https://studio.libretexts.org/subject/language)
and intend to continue that effort for the next year.

Here's what's being used for ESOL courses in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL . Some of these will be clear which level they're for
and you might need to click through to see for others.

I have a colleague who teaches ESL (English as a Second Language)
and is looking for OER videos or audio that teach the speaker's tone/attitude (She further describes her needs below).
She's searched online and asked the other ESL faculty, and I've searched the relevant OER repositories that I can think of.
Do any of you have any leads?
If so, could you please email her at bhuot@ccsf.edu ?

"I am teaching an online course that focuses on listening.
I am doing a unit on tone, the speaker's attitude.
And I have a really hard time finding any audio/video files or online exercises where my students can practice listening to the tone,
the speaker's attitude. Might you be able to know of sources that I can use for my "speaker's attitude - Tone" unit?
Thank you in advance for helping me."

Some folks from our Graduate College at Iowa State University developed this book,
Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English, for ESL graduate students, which I think might help in this situation!
Feel free to check it out on Pressbooks. Its main focus is on "listening, speaking, lexicogrammar, pragmatics, and pronunciation."
There is a section on intonation and how that translates to meaning/implied meaning in English.

It doesn't cover tone for sarcasm, etc, but it covers a lot of the basics.
There is likely a YouTube series that covers some of this as well, and I'm hoping others will know of some additional resources to share!

I have found a few resources.
Here is the link to the libguide page that I created. See if any of these help you?
https://libguides.mccd.edu/OER-Disc/ESL

I’m working with my ESL faculty to find a good text for ESL 913, which is a Level 3 speaking and listening course.
I’m attaching the course outline of record, but in a nutshell this course is a high-intermediate ESL course that interlaces
reading skills with oral production. There are two publisher texts that my faculty have been using,
but are increasingly unhappy with them:
Craven, M., K. D, Sherman. Q Skills for Success 3 Listening & Speaking Student Book, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015
Miller, J.L. and Cohen R.F.. Longman Academic Reading Series Book 3: Reading Skills for College with Essential Online Resources, 1st ed. White Plains, New York: Pearson Education, Inc., 2017
We found a few options out there, but they are either too low or they don’t quite help with the skills that are being required:
Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English (Pressbooks)
People and Places: An Intermediate Integrated Skills Module for Learners (LibreTexts)
Speaking, Listening, and Pronunciation Projects for ELLs, Intermediate Level (LibreTexts)
That said, we’re wondering what else is being used out there, and are asking folks for their recomme3ndations.
We’re seeing that there are quite a few resources for grammar/writing courses (and my ESL faculty are quickly adopting them!), but for listening/speaking courses there is a bit of a dearth.
So any help would be appreciated!

Oregon's ESOL community is creating a ton of great open content which you can browse here:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?discipline=ESOL

Technical Writing

Today in our English Faculty meeting we spoke about the possibility of shifting to a Technical Writing OER, so I thought I would ask if anyone is using an OER that they particularly love?

This is the OER for Technical Writing developed by Amber Kinonen at Bay College: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zmt-NPk-0IEHNde_gJrzjk8ao2K4W1ksL1HBpDpaP9s/edit

I did a pretty thorough search for our Tech Writing instructor last semester and parked the list in the OER libguide here. Top left column.

This resource is also linked on Tina's libguide she sent, but I just wanted to add that we have several ACC faculty actively using the David McMurrey book.
https://www.prismnet.com/~hcexres/textbook/

Hi all, here's the link to the technical writing book developed at COCC and PCC: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/technicalwriting/

They Say/I Say

Hi all, thank you for the excellent suggestions! The faculty member is going to look through the resources you all have shared. I won't pretend to have read them all, but in particular the Academic Phrasebank seems really useful in finding open/free alternatives to They Say/I Say (it is free but under copyright).
Here's the roundup of responses:

Write Here, Right Now: https://pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca/writehere/
Guide to Writing: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/styleguide/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalogs.lumenlearning.com%2Fcatalogs%2F1
English Comp I: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/engcomp1-wmopen/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalogs.lumenlearning.com%2Fcatalogs%2F1
English Comp II: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/englishcomp2kscopexmaster/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalogs.lumenlearning.com%2Fcatalogs%2F1
Writing in College: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence
About Writing: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/about-writing-a-guide
Writing Spaces: http://writingspaces.org/
Academic Phrasebank: http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk/
CARS model of introductions handout: http://www.cs.tut.fi/kurssit/SGN-16006/academic_writing/cars_model_handout.pdf
Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence by Amy Guptill: https://textbooks.opensuny.org/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence/ (in particular “Chapter 5: Listening to Sources, Talking to Sources”: https://milnepublishing.geneseo.edu/writing-in-college-from-competence-to-excellence/chapter/listening-to-sources-talking-to-sources/ )
English 100 (Freshman Composition) reader: https://wisc.pb.unizin.org/uwenglish100omnibus/

Workplace Communication and African American Literature

One of our instructors is looking OER course materials for ENG 340 (Workplace Communication) and ENG 219 (African American Literature ) courses.
We would really appreciate it if anyone can share any resources for these courses.

Looks like there are lot good resources for your instructor to review:
OERCommons has a curated collection of Business Communications resources: https://oercommons.org/curated-collections/469
There's a text in the Open Textbook Library our instructors are using: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/8
plus, you can find a lot more just googling "business communications oer"
OERCommons has a curated collection of 6 African American Literature resources: https://louis.oercommons.org/curated-collections/112
plus, I found a nice list of additional resources just googling "african american literature oer"

Writing for Digital Media

Hello CCCOER! I have a faculty member who is considering OER for a course called Writing for Digital Media and would appreciate any open textbook suggestions.
Nothing stood out to me in OTN or Pressbooks Directory but perhaps I've missed a great resource?
He did find a books called Mobile and Social Media Journalism: A Practical Guide from Yumpu and asked if I had any knowledge of the platform,
which I do not, so I would also appreciate any wisdom on that site and its content. Looks like students would have to pay for platform access, which makes me leary.

We have recently built a common search portal through the 2000 texts (and collections) in the LibreTexts corpus. You may find things you are looking for there:

https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=media&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=

Writing the Research Paper

I have a faculty member at my college who is searching for OER in his English Critical Reasoning: Writing the Research Paper course. Here is his description of what he needs:
It would be a rhetorical reader with activities and some content concerning researching/research writing. More specifically, He would like something that addresses rhetoric, argumentation, logical fallacies, inventing/the writing process, and research writing, and which contains a selection of readings/examples/activities.
Have him contact Brent Kendrick at LFCC - bkendrick@lfcc.edu

You might have him contact Josh Sunderbruch (jsunderb@harpercollege.edu ). Josh has a resource he wrote and has been using for the English research paper course. The last time Josh and I spoke, it wasn't yet OER, but he was open to licensing it that way. Having a fellow faculty member from the discipline who is interested in the content might help move that along.

Check out the Excelsior OWL (https://owl.excelsior.edu/).

It has a section on researching (https://owl.excelsior.edu/research/ ) and rhetorical styles(https://owl.excelsior.edu/rhetorical-styles/ ) with examples and activities.

In Oregon that's WR 122. Here's what I know has been adopted for that course: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=wr%20122

Environmental Science

An instructor at our community college in Washington State is looking for the following. Although he's interested in local environmental issues, any resources on these topics that you all know about are greatly appreciated.

"I am looking for OER materials I can use with an environmental science class (Local environmental issues) in the fall. I need something that covers the following topics:
Population growth, Sprawl/Land Use, Water resources, Water Pollution, Energy, Waste (household, municipal, hazardous), Air pollution"

This book on sustainability might have some useful components:

https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=4e3cc83c-7c80-4dc3-bd3f-40598c6906d8&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Earth
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Check out https://www.skillscommons.org/
This is where the materials from the TAACCCT grant were uploaded. You'll find many courses related to sustainability and a few certificate and degree programs.
You might check out the spreadsheet that an Environmental Science team in Oregon put together when redesigning a course: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1myZvsJA5t_TNsEJ2uAttDk9zfZOyedLsCqWH-ojRy7w/edit?usp=sharing

Looking for two OER:
1) Meteorology for Non-Science Majors
2) Intro Oceanography (Marine Science)
Does anyone have any suggestions or know of OER in development for these subjects?

This book from BCcampus may be useful - https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=52166cd1-e380-4e1b-9a6f-d891936e4749&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Earth,%20Ocean%20&%20Atmospheric%20Science

I have an instructor who is looking for OER - an open textbook for Environmental Health. This course is part of Public Health associate degree program.

You will find many of these topics in our environmental chemistry section: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Chemistry

I am searching for any newly (2021-2022) published OERs in Intro to Environmental Science.
If you have any suggestions, please reply.
I have already reviewed the following:
Canada Environmental Science: A Canadian perspective https://www.oercommons.org/courses/environmental-science-4/view
2022 Environmental Science: an Open Educational Resource by Sean Whitcomb
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/environmental-science-an-open-educational-resource/view
The Ecosphere and Environmental Issues by Sarah Sojka 2022
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-ecosphere-and-environmental-issues/view
Environmental Issues by Andrew Frank 2020
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/environmental-issues/view

Hi Sandra, here's what's in use in Oregon for ES courses - you might find some recent/relevant materials here:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Environmental%20Science

You might also take a look at Melissa Ha and Rachel Schleiger's OERI book " Environmental Science" at
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Ecology/Environmental_Science_(Ha_and_Schleiger)
and other books on the LibreTexts' Ecology bookshelf
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Ecology

Climate Change

I am working on a project for another institution to put together a textbook on Climate Change

Judith Sebesta uses quite a few great examples in her book that you could use in your book.
https://pressbooks.pub/climatechangeandfilm/

Earth Science

I'm wondering if anyone knows of Earth Science courses at community colleges? I'm not looking necessarily for materials -- I've found some. I'm looking for people who are happily using OER I might be able to connect our faculty with.

I know just such a person, Eryn Klosko: https://www.sunywcc.edu/academics/school-of-mathematics-science-and-engineering/dr-eryn-klosko/
Eryn's OER courses (including Earth Science) are very impressive. Tell her Elaine Farrally-Plourde sent you...

You should talk to the people at SERC
https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/about/index.html
The Science Education Resource Center is a grant-funded office at Carleton College, founded to improve education in the Earth sciences and beyond.
Today we are a team of 14 educators, researchers and technical specialists who have worked with over 100 award winning education projects across the STEM disciplines and allied fields.
Engaging participants from more than 1,000 institutions of higher education, as well as K-12 curriculum developers and teachers,
we have created one of the world's largest collections of pedagogic resources.
In collaboration with instructors, institutions and national organizations.

Environmental Conservation

Is anyone aware off resources available for Environmental Conservation?

Colby Moorberg from Kansas State University recently published Soil and Water Conservation, An Annotated Bibliography.

We have been collecting some OER resources on our platform that may be useful:
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability)
All ready for easy remixing/editing for customized text/course generation.

Environmental Law

I'm looking for OER in the area of undergraduate environmental law. I've searched Open Textbook Library, OER Commons, OASIS, Merlot, CNX, and general open web search. Ideas?

Have you tried CALI? They have a collection of OER at https://www.cali.org/the-elangdell-bookstore

I know you already searched this but I've had good luck finding legal textbooks on https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks . Sometimes it takes a little digging to find the content.
I did find: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/wetlands-law-a-course-source
I also found this website: https://www.nap.edu/topic/285/environment-and-environmental-studies which has some OER textbooks on specific topics which could possibly be remixed.

Sustainability

I have a faculty member looking for a textbook for a new introduction to environmental science course with a sustainability focus. Here is the course description if that helps with resources:
This course aims to teach students the skills to both define sustainability and to assess if a given process or product can be deemed “sustainable.” Synthesis of fundamental ecological principles and anthropogenic activities will be covered. Conversation about pollution prevention, ecological risk, and remediation will aim to help students become more sustainable world citizens.

This one looks promising, since the first word of the forward is “sustainability” https://cnx.org/contents/JFkrFJcl@1.1:HdWd2hN5@2/Foreword

Hi April, you could also check out Matt Fisher's book: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/envirobiology/

This book from Ohio State might be more supplemental, but it still may have useful components. This is an example of open pedagogy where students at Ohio State actually wrote and maintain this textbook.
https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/sciencebites/

If anyone can help, I have a colleague looking for collaborators to author/remix OER on environmental sustainablity:

As you likely know, the Libretexts has a section on Environmental Engineering that four texts have been integrated:
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability)
I presume this is a good starting point for remixing. I have dreams for this topic to expand enough to be an independent library in our LibreVerse. If you colleague fancies a chat about how to use our platform and existing content effectively, feel free to share my contact info.

Andrew Millison wrote an OER Intro to Permaculture that might be useful for you: https://open.oregonstate.education/permaculture/

Water Quality Monitoring

A faculty member at Saddleback College is looking for OER related to Water Quality Monitoring (ENV 140). I had him look at the three Water Technology resources from College of the Canyons and his feedback was: "These textbooks are directed towards an operator's license at a water treatment plant. These are excellent textbook materials - someone put a lot of effort into preparing them. However, my course has a stronger direction towards understanding regulations, field monitoring and laboratory analysis."

Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon has found library ebooks that work for some of their WW courses: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=ww%20
I'll pass along the info about the open resources in this area from COC (link: http://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/OER/Pages/COC%20OER%20Textbooks.aspx#Water%20Technology ).

French

I have 2 faculty looking for French OER’s – I did find this https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/french
If you have any others that you could share, it is much appreciated. They also asked if there were any grants available for creating an OER class – not sure where to look.
OLI also has French 1 and 2: http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/

Can I tag onto this and ask about any OER material in French?

I'm not aware of any resources myself, but I believe Greg Szczyrbak at Millersville Unviersity is working with faculty to create French OER. I've copied him in so he can give you more information and point you to these resources.

COERLL has a bunch of things in French: http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/french .
And here are some others too:
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/15/
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=194
If you haven’t checked it out already, Merlot also has a good language collection that is easy to search: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/WorldLanguages.htm

our French instructors are using Liberte: http://www.lightandmatter.com/french/

I have a professor currently using, Promenades, 3rd ed. ISBN-13: 978-1-68005-008-0, I have combed through several searches for resources for replacement materials. I am not finding a lot that have been peer reviewed with a lot of feedback about the resource. If you have French professors that could provide recommendations, please share with me. Professor is hoping to get materials that not only provides the grammar and literature, but is recent enough to teach the current culture of France. Also, interested in supplemental resources that include conversations (podcasts, videos, etc).

The Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning at U Texas has a lot of material available. The general link is https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/materials/language-learning-materials .

Geography

Cultural Geography

Has anyone come across OER for a cultural geography course? Our instructor is already using an open textbook for his world regional geography course, but would like to start using OER for his cultural course, as well. It looks like opengeography.org is down too?

We’re working with Rebus on a new open textbook for our Human Geography course. You can find information on this project here - https://forum.rebus.community/topic/202/human-geography-project-summary?utm_source=Rebus+Community+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0d745d16e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c42869f96a-0d745d16e4-75469793

Physical Geography

We (West Hills Coalinga) are looking for a lab manual for physical geography, does anyone have a resource that you can share? Our faculty here have searched for one but have not been successful in locating one.

I (Jen Bjerke) ran into the same issue so I am piloting my own OER physical geography lab manual this semester at San Bernardino Valley College. I'll be ready to share it sometime this summer. Anyone interested in learning more is welcome to contact me.

The University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia, working with the Rebus Foundation, and in the process of writing a Human Geography textbook.
https://forum.rebus.community/category/39/geo-human-geography-principles-and-applications-lead-paul-hackett-usask

World Geography

Our GEOG department chair is developing a hybrid version of the course and wants to replace the expensive current textbook. OpenStax has nothing, and zero hits of "geography" on Larry Green's mega-list. I found https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_world-regional-geography-people-places-and-globalization/ Anything else?

If you haven’t examined it yet, you may want to check out the resources on this site: http://www.opengeography.org/etextbooks.html Our Geography department has found it useful.

See: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx If the link does not work, go to "open.umn.edu" and search "Geography." Three open textbooks are listed. Good luck.

Thanks, Barbara!
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=335
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=78

We've created a Google doc with links to OERs on this topic. Because we're using it for a course development project, we've limited edit access to our team for now. Thanks, all, for sharing. Larry, feel free to add this to your list.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1citMnTrg2TBTMBukXUeG74XdBITA_a7izQRaNgH4-1I/edit?usp=sharing

I have an instructor who is teaching world geography, she currently uses World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=78 ). The problem she is currently facing is access to a free detailed academic atlas. Does anyone know of one that is available?

Hi Kristine, would the CIA World Factbook work? See e.g. "Albania": https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/al.html
Downside is that it is organized primarily by nations, of course
Also, it's a bit of heavy lifting to find/gather, but Wikimedia Commons has pretty good/diverse maps collections, e.g. Albania again: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_Albania
I know little about Wikimedia's "Atlas of the World", but maybe also useful: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_the_world

I searched on MERLOT and found several possibles, although I'm not quite sure what an "academic" atlas would be:
https://www.infoplease.com/atlas/world-atlas-map-library
http://go.hrw.com/atlas/span_htm/world.htm#top
https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
While not technically "an atlas," some of Stanford's GIS resources are open and could possibly be used to simulate an academic atlas.

Like ArcGIS, I believe QGIS (an openly available download) has a bank of maps within the program and has the potential to be used for course material. It may be worth checking out here: https://library.stanford.edu/research/stanford-geospatial-center/software
The two faculty heavily involved with GIS work there, David Medieros and Stace Maples are both incredibly approachable (I interned as an MLIS student in their department) and their contact information is located here: https://library.stanford.edu/research/stanford-geospatial-center/about-us
They may have suggestions for open sources based on your faculty member's course needs.

Weather and Climate

Help! I have an instructor who is looking for Physical Geography and Weather and Climate. Any suggestions?

Here's what I have from a survey of California Community College faculty - the data were never compiled.
https://www.earthonlinemedia.com/ebooks/tpe_3e/title_page.html (The Physical Environment) (Identified by multiple respondents)
https://serc.carleton.edu/resources/22397.html (Fundamentals of Physical Geography)

Physical Geog- search online for Michael Ritter’s The Physical Environment. It was free but copyrighted. He recently changed the license to OER. Also check out Adam Dastrup’s website: opengeography.org. Dastrup is using Pressbooks and they look empty initially because he didn’t write intros, but use the TOC and you’ll find great content. Not sure about weather & climate.

Yes, I have three chapters related to the atmosphere, weather, and climate as part of my Introduction to Physical Geography OER textbook. Yes, I need to add info in the introduction, but I’ve been too focused on the main chapters right now. Feel free to use these any way you need, including the embedded videos and links to other sources.
Chapter 9: The Atmosphere
Chapter 10: Weather Processes and Systems
Chapter 11: Global Climates and Change

Instructors in Oregon are using a combination of previously shared and original content for Physical Geography: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Physical%20Geography
I know of one open meteorology course being taught: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=meteor
For climate change, instructors are using library ebooks.

In addition to all the great resources mentioned previously, I would like to mention that we just integrated Brune's Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science text into our Geosciences library and is ready for easy remixing.
https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Meteorology/Book%3A_Fundamentals_of_Atmospheric_Science_(Brune)
It may be a more more advanced than you are looking for, but can be edited/customized like all our content.

Geology

I have an instructor who is looking for an open text or substantive open materials/ labs for a historical geology class. This course is in our VCCS catalog as GOL106, and the course description is: Traces the evolution of the earth and life through time. Presents scientific theories of the origin of the earth and life and interprets rock and fossil record.
There is a wikibook by Hardcastle, but the instructor feels it more fits the course we offer, GOL105, Physical Geology: Introduces the composition and structure of the earth and modifying agents and processes. Investigates the formation of minerals and rocks, weathering, erosion, earthquakes, and crustal deformation. Does anyone know of anything, anywhere for 106? Cheers and thanks!

Check out Chapters 7 and 8 here to see if it meets your needs. Good Luck!
http://opengeology.org/textbook/

Good morning! I'm doing a little research into the resources available for an Environmental Geoscience course. The textbook we use currently is Environmental Geology by Reichard, James S. Are there some open textbooks or other resources that anyone has used in a 100-level geology course?

Our Geology instructor is transitioning over to http://opengeology.org/textbook/ this upcoming fall semester.

Our Physical Geology book is quite good and widely used:
https://opentextbc.ca/geology/

Health

EMT

I have an instructor developing an exam for our school's EMT program. He is asking if there are any open licensed test banks for
1) classic "logic puzzle" questions (so not necessary health-related)
2) dosage/ unit conversion/ fraction & decimal questions using health scenarios (EMT, ultrasound, nursing fields, etc.)
I've checked my usual locations (eCampus Ontario, BCcampus, OpenOregon, Merlot, OERCommons) with little success, so any leads would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Jessica, I was just looking at nursing-related OER for a faculty member. The one that I usually forget to check is Wisc-Online's learning object collection: https://www.wisc-online.com/learn/career-clusters/health-science

Health Care Careers

Looking for OER materials suitable for high school or college 1st-year students on health care careers.
From the course description: "This course introduces students to varied careers in healthcare and the educational, legal, and professional requirements of those careers. Course work includes researching healthcare professions, the use of electronic media in healthcare, workplace readiness skills, and the characteristics of successful healthcare employees."

I did an Advanced search for health care career and high school/general ed/lower division and found the following:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)
There are 82 resources. They may not all be what you want, but you'll find some you can use.

Health Education

Hello - I have done some searching but wanted to see if anyone had some good OER sources/materials for the following Health Ed class (class content description from the instructor below):
Thank you
Here is my course description for HE 101
Students will explore health behaviors, heath promotion and wellness concepts. The course includes study and analysis of specific lifestyle factors and their relationships to well-being and disease. Areas of study will include mental wellness, stress and stress management, physical fitness, nutrition, weight management, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, heart disease, cancer, infectious diseases, sexuality, birth control, consumerism and environmental health.
This topic has come up on the list before so you may be able to find more in the old archives University of Oklahoma has a great lib guide page on health sciences. http://guides.ou.edu/OER/healthsciences which includes a health education open textbook written by Foothill Community College Dean Judy Baker (PhD Public Health) several years ago.

One of our professors developed an open textbook for her Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles course:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-monroecc-hed110/
It is licensed as CC-BY.

A couple more resources that might be useful for you:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/fitness/ This course was developed by Santa Ana College and has been adopted broadly. It draws from multiple resources that in themselves might be worth exploring more deeply for relevant content.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/collegesuccess-lumen/ There are some resources about drugs, alcohol, safety, and others from your list.

This is what's being used at PCC: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/14221-he-250-personal-health-portland-community-college/view

Here's one more for your collection: Disease Prevention and Healthy Lifestyles:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-monroecc-hed110/

I found the Lumen Health book and chose to convert it to a Google Document so that I could adjust the order, add a couple more chapters, and I also wanted to ensure my students could easily get a paper copy from our bookstore.
Here's the link to the google document I made: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g4OYMjgg7ISQeITbqjoWIAd_f5PoXZB_JAIsoQxKfyg/edit#
I'd love to hear your feedback and any suggestions you have.
Also, I did have the Google Document checked for accessibility by our specialist and it passed all requirements.

Health Science

Merlot has a nice collection of objects which can be used in the health sciences area. To see them go to:https://www.merlot.org/merlot/HealthSciences.htm?utm_content=buffer828c9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Then click on “General” topics in the lower right of that screen. Many more topics, broken down by specialty, will appear on the next page.

I am looking for OER materials related to the following courses
Introduction to Public Health
Introduction to Community Health Work
Community-Based Health Education in Health and Illness
Chronic Disease Management

The Open RN Mental Health and Community Concepts textbook was just released this month in Pressbooks. Chapters 16-18 introduce concepts related to community health assessments, vulnerable populations, environmental health, and emergency preparedness.
Perhaps you can find something you can adapt for your needs? It has CC-BY 4.0 licensing.

Here's a list of Oregon adoptions related to the keyword "health" that you may be interested in browsing through:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=health

There may be topics/chapters in my Introduction to Health OER Textbook that might work for public health:
https://pressbooks.pub/introtohealth/

Medical Law and Ethics

Our faculty are currently using Lewis, A.L., Tamparo, C.D., Tatro, B.M.. (2012) Medical Law, Ethics, & Bioethics for the Health Professions, 7th, F.A.Davis book.
They would like to know if there is an OER textbook with which they could replace it.
It is used for our Medical Law and Ethics course for medical assistants. We appreciate any assistance you could provide.

Here's a link to an openly licensed syllabus showing how this course is taught at Linn-Benton Community College:
https://libarchive.linnbenton.edu/concern/syllabi/m613mx72g?locale=en

Medical Terminology

I have a faculty member creating an online Medical Terminology course for 1 credit hour. I found the resources below, but she’s requesting a “more comprehensive” single resource, preferably system based. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
https://medlineplus.gov/xml.html
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/understanding-medical-words
https://openstax.org/details/anatomy-and-physiology
http://libguides.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ancientmedicine_goyette/home
https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/247622?format=EBOK
https://www.wisc-online.com/search?searchType=3&q=medical+terminology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fiEszFPRE8
https://medlineplus.gov/medicalwords.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_roots,_suffixes_and_prefixes

Here is a link to a resource from the grant that I worked on: https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/7825
There is a Medical Terminology module (two modules, I believe) organized according to each body system. There are also worksheets that accompany the modules which help the learner to review his or her understanding of the basic prefixes, root words, and suffixes for medical terms and procedures.

I see that Washetenaw Community College has many resources for OER but is there a text out there for Medical Terminology that is OER?

Our faculty here are interested in making our Med Term class an OER class. Thank you!

In March of 2018, these links were shared to the cccoer list:
https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/pronunciations#
https://www.merriam-webster.com/browse/medical/a
https://www.knowledgetowork.com/learning-resource.php?lrid=1449
https://www.knowledgetowork.com/learning-resource.php?lrid=3497
https://www.knowledgetowork.com/learning-resource.php?lrid=3378
I shared them with our Med Terms course coordinator, but things didn't really go anywhere after that.

I see that Washetenaw Community College has many resources for OER but is there a text out there for Medical Terminology that is OER?

Check what we have listed at http://libguides.wccnet.edu/oer-subjects/healthcare-terminology
WCC medical terminology class does not currently use an OER.

An instructor is looking to replace an expensive Med Terms text due to a curricular restructuring.
The need includes not just the basics of anatomy and physiology, but also Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, suffixes and combining forms.
Besides the "usual suspects" what gems might you good folks have to share? Media-rich resources and interactive activities / games etc.
(scored or unscored) would be highly appreciated!

This resource may be of interest:
Medical Terminology: An Interactive Approach (2022, LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network, CC BY 4.0) Includes 5HP interactive activities!

Here is one that may be helpful Building a Medical Terminology Foundation with multiple H5P. There is a second edition in the work with plans for a Fall publishing.
It might be worth noting there has been multiple iterations of it available via Pressbooks Directory. So many beautiful and useful repurposes.

Here's what's being used in Oregon:

https://nicoletcollege.pressbooks.pub/ltcmedicalterminology/
and
https://nicoletcollege.pressbooks.pub/studentcompaniontobuildingamedicaltermfound/

Pharmacology Nursing

I am looking for an OER textbook for Pharmacology Nursing. Any suggestions?

A faculty member of ours in dental hygiene is developing a Pharmacology OER - it's not an open textbook (and also not for nursing), but it may include some materials that could support your curriculum. You might contact her: https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/members/amatthews/

Social Service and Mental Health

A faculty member is exploring the possibility of offering a micro-credential related to social service education and mental health.
Is anyone using or aware of OER for any of the topics below?
Trauma-informed care
Ethics in social service
Substance use disorders and treatment
Basics of case management

Hi Sarah, we're working on a related project :)
Our research consultant Michaela Willi Hooper writes:
Trauma-Informed Care:
Action steps using ACEs and trauma-informed care: a resilience model in Health & Justice (CC BY 4.0)
Trauma-Informed Care- A Sociocultural Perspective in Trauma-Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (SAMHSA, public domain)
Multi-Tiered System of Supports to Address Childhood Trauma: Evidence and Implications from Policy Analysis for California Education. (CC BY 4.0)
Trauma-Informed Social Work Practice: What Is It and Why Should We Care? on the Virtual Connections blog (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Trauma informed practices in Exploring Substance Use in Canada (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
What is Trauma-Informed SEL? From Transforming Education (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Trauma-Informed School Practices (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Trauma Informed Behaviour Support: A Practical Guide to Developing Resilient Learners (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sexual Violence and its Impact on Physical, Mental, and Psychological Health in Northern and Indigenous Health and Healthcare (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Substance use disorders and treatment:
Theories and Biological Basis of Addiction (CC BY-NC 4.0). See especially 1.2, 2.3, 6, 7.
Assessment & Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Foundations of Addiction Studies (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Addressing the Drug Problem and Reducing Drug Use in Drugs, Health, and Behavior (CC BY-NC-SA)

Sonography and Radiology

Does anyone have some great OER resources for Sonography and Radiology?

We have this resource that you may find useful -
https://openpress.usask.ca/undergradimaging/

Wellness

I have a professor looking for any textbooks that would align well with the course outline for wellness. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You could also look at the Health book produced at College of the Canyons: Health. We can send you the Word file if needed.

You could check out the materials created at PCC: https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/14221-he-250-personal-health-portland-community-college/view

History/PolySci

African American and US History

A faculty is looking for open textbook and resources for the following history subjects:
- Introduction to Western civilization (1400 to 1900)
- African-American history (Reconstruction-)

Would one of these work for the first request?
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/western-civilization-a-concise-history-volume-1 (there’s also a volume 2 & 3)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8NXeuU4MnLTRVZfc1lOUWNCbk0

Here's a Western Civ II remix that a SUNY faculty member stood-up: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-fmcc-worldcivilization2-1/

The AtD OER Degree program early release of content had an African-American course included: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-fscj-africanamericanhistory/

I am looking for OER text that covers African American History.
I searched the usual places and cannot find anything except for links to other sources. I am looking for a ebook that can replace a textbook.

Our Skyline history professor Christopher Collins just completed compiling an OER reader using resources from Lumen & American Yawp, Boundless, & OpenStax US History.
Please see African American History, HIST 244 OER Reader for a downloadable Word doc.
There is the possibility of this course being shared through Canvas Commons, too. Please reach out to history professor Christopher Collins at collinsc@smccd.edu
for more information.

American Government
I have a professor looking for interactive resources for a college-level American Government course for which he may use the OpenStax text. He also seeks a college-level text
and additional resources for teaching entry-level International Relations. He says what he has found so far for International relations has been written by an international audience or is too advanced.

Alexis - Below are resources for a community college IR course, curated by one of our Political Science Discipline Leads. I hope this is useful. There may be resources of use for
the user of the OS text as well - please see Open Educational Resources and Political Science.
Introduction to International Relations (C-ID POLS 140)
A Short Introduction to World Politics (Meacham, 2020) – LibreTexts (CC BY-NC-ND)
This 13-chapter textbook covers the following: System History: The Rise of the Modern World System; Images and Theories of World Politics; Foreign Policy Decision Making;
Non-State Actors- IGOs, NGOs, MNCs; The World Economy; The Global North and South; Globalization; War and International Security; Military Power; Realists Paths to
Peace – Alliances, Dominance and Treaties; Idealist Paths to Peace: International Law; and Human Rights, Population, and Environment. Chapters are organized into sections and
the final section includes a list of questions. Note that it is unclear whether this is a peer-reviewed textbook.
Canvas Course Shell for Introduction to International Relations (CC)
Introduction to International Relations Canvas Commons download This semester-long Canvas course shell includes an OER textbook equivalent, lesson plans, and ancillary
materials. The content contained within this Open Education Resource (OER) was curated and/or created by Dr. Charlotte Lee at Berkeley City College, Dr. Katherine Michel at
Ohlone College, and Dr. Josh Franco at Cuyamaca College. The curation and creation of this content was funded by the Academic Senate for California Community College’s
Open Educational Resources Initiative. Question Banks were created by Josh Franco, Ph.D., Elizabeth Nash, M.A., and Jereme Umali, M.
Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (2nd ed., Lautensach and Lautensach, eds., 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA)
Intended for upper division students, this is the first textbook treatment of human security and related concepts such as socio-political security, economic security,
environmental security, and health security. This textbook includes 21 chapters. Note that it is unclear whether this textbook is peer-reviewed.
International Relations (McGlinchey, ed. 2017) (CC BY-NC)
This textbook is intended as an introduction to core concepts and topics in international relations. This book contains eighteen chapters organized into two parts.
Part one on “the basics” covers international relations theories and institutions, while part two on “global issues” takes up topics such as global development, human rights,
terrorism, and environmental challenges. Note that this text does not appear to be peer-reviewed. Excerpt of review by Dr. Josh Franco, Political Science, Cuyamaca College:
The coherent organization and structure of the textbook will help instructors facilitate the learning of the topic, as well as student’s learning about international relations.
Meditations on Diplomacy: Comparative Cases in Diplomatic Practice and Foreign Policy (Chan, 2017) (CC BY-NC 4.0)
This textbook explores the craft of diplomacy and foreign policy making. It begins with a chapter on international relations theories and explores issues by region as well as
foreign policy topic. Note that this text does not appear to be peer-reviewed.

Art History

I’m looking for an Art History OER to replace Gardner’s “Art Through the Ages.” Any ideas?
You might find one of these a good replacement: http://oerdegrees.org/courses/art-appreciation-and-art-history/ Pacific Northwest HistoryThe BC Open Textbooks collection has the Canadian History Pre-Confederation. This was just published last year and may have some content of interest.

I am searching for assessments and instructor resources for Art History I and II. Any assistance would be appreciated.

You might look at Art History Teaching Resources, a peer populated platform for art history teachers. They have lesson plans that are broken out by theme as well as by class amongst a ton of other resources.

There are a variety of Art History materials in MERLOT. Below is a link to that search:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?category=2176&hasAwards=false&hasComments=false&hasCourses=false&filterTypesOpen=false&dateRange=0&hasEtextReviews=false&isLeadershipLibrary=false&hasCollections=false&filterOtherOpen=false&isContentBuilder=false&filterSubjectsOpen=true&hasAccessibilityForm=false&hasPeerReviews=false&hasAssignments=false&filterPartnerAffiliationsOpen=true&hasRatings=false&hasSercActivitySheets=false&days=7&filterMobileOpen=false&sort.property=overallRating&hasEditorReviews=false&page=1

It’s included in the great MERLOT list but the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open access program has an incredible amount of materials that would be perfect for Art History I and II.
Open Access Images [metmuseum.org]
Heilbrun Timeline of Art History [metmuseum.org]
Also, Smarthistory has excellent essays and videos: https://smarthistory.org/ [smarthistory.org].
Of course, there are many museums with open content but the Met is a good starting point.--

California Politics
I have a Political Science faculty member looking for an open textbook for a California Politics course (he's currently using this). Any suggestions for resources?

Our main Political Science professor (Lezlee Ware) sent the following information:
For my class I use Factories in the Field with the ebook available through our library and google. I also use The Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of California book, which is available through archives.gov and free through a local government representatives office.

Cold War

Does anyone have recommendations for an OER textbook concerning “America & the Cold War”? And, any further recommendations for supplementary materials? The ideal OER materials would be designed for 2-year college students and would be politically- neutral. Thanks ahead for your responses and suggestions!

The American Yawp has a chapter on the Cold War that you may find helpful. http://www.americanyawp.com/ As for being politically neutral, I don't think any information on the Cold War or American History is politically neutral.

This pass summer I took my son on a tour of Mount Rushmore, The Badlands, Black Hills and Devils Tower and found this gem. A small but very informative and Impressive national park.
https://www.nps.gov/mimi/planyourvisit/index.htm
You can get some screen shots from the virtual tours.

History of England

A history prof here has searched unsuccessfully for History of England OER text/materials. Anyone have pointers/recommendations?
Gutenberg Project
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?start_index=26&query=history+of+england&go=Go
Might find some good stuff in Jorum, UK OER repository http://www.jorum.ac.uk/
Open University http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history
And while not OER, the BBC does have some very good history materials http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/

History of Mexico

I am working with a history professor who is looking for open resources for a History of Mexico course. The course covers Mexican history from the Pre-Columbian period to the present. It includes an analysis of the social, cultural, political, and economic aspects of the Mexican past.

I used the GMU metafinder typed in “History of Mexico” and got a ton of resources… maybe some of them will be relevant for your course?

Latin American History

I'm looking for Latin American History OER for one of our professors. We've located some MIT open courses and some Saylor legacy courses; however, these have not provided the relevant reading materials that she would like to use in her course. Does anyone have any suggestions for Latin American History?

The following resource might provide some helpful if very limited readings: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/
Boundless World History | Simple Book Publishing< https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/ > courses.lumenlearning.com< http://courses.lumenlearning.com >
Copyright This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations. Click the words "Licenses and ...

Political Science

I have been striking OER matches on campus for the past year and I’m so excited to see some small fires igniting. The latest is in our Poli-Sci department. Does anyone have recommendations for the following courses?
I’ll let you get in touch with our Poli-Sci Prof Jim Tuite (tuitej@centralvirginia.edu) who has developed a superb 2-semester American Government class that is already certified by Lumen. Of course you can always access the Lumen courses and adopt their materials.

At Central Virginia Community College, Prof. Jim Tuite has developed two sequence courses in American Government, PLS 211 and P

I have a faculty member looking to replace Principles of Politics and Government, Coulter, ISBN 0-697-23762-1 with an OER text. Does anyone have any suggestions?

There are two suitable OER choices that I am aware of:

American Government 2e. Available from OpenStax

https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-2e

American Government and Politics in the Information Age. Available from the University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/american-government-and-politics-in-the-information-age

I have also edited (updated) and prepared presentation, assignments and test bank materials for this text.

There's also https://courses.lumenlearning.com/amgovernment/ . Faculty at our institution chose the Lumen course.

I am aware of two suitable OER choices:
American Government 2e. Available from OpenStax
https://openstax.org/details/books/american-government-2e
American Government and Politics in the Information Age. Available from the University of Minnesota Open Textbook Library
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/american-government-and-politics-in-the-information-age
I have also edited (updated) and prepared presentation materials, assignments and test bank materials for this text

I have a professor looking for a basic into to political science textbook to replace Understanding Politics: Ideas, Institutions, and Issues, by Thomas M. Magstadt. I think I have exhausted all the places I usually look. Has anyone else been through this search? Any hot tips? Or do you know of a 100 level poli sci text being develop?

Perhaps this text used by a couple of TMCC faculty:
his Land Is Your Land from FlatWorld. $29.95 for an e-text that is robust AND will be updated
https://catalog.flatworldknowledge.com/catalog/editions/saiz_1-this-land-is-your-land-1-0

I think you're right that there isn't an obvious replacement. An Oregon instructor created an openly licensed reading list that may be of help: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1htCbuBzhQBbx1rtNZPG24jhappK2ocZX

PreHistory ad Archaeology

I have a faculty member looking for a World Prehistory or World Archaeology Text. I can find her world history books that have some chapters on prehistory, but I cannot find anything more in-depth.

Has anyone else tried to find something like this? Any suggestions?

In our research prior to starting our new textbook project (Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology) we did a fairly comprehensive survey of existing anthropology OER textbooks. Unfortunately, we found there is not much out there for archaeology. I know there is a group working on an introductory archaeology textbook, but I believe the geographic focus of that book is on North America, and I don’t believe it is complete yet. MIT has one that might work: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-human-past-introduction-to-archaeology-fall-2006
Here is a book published in 2001, but I believe the focus is again N. America: https://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/items/645a3072-2e76-79c8-6b29-06b9284a87d9/1/
Here is another possibility, but it appears there are some restrictions and we were not able to evaluate it: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=1209135

State and Local Government

Is anyone aware of the availability of an OER US State and Local Government textbook? It can include material specific to any state (I can adapt it for use here).

The OpenStax American Government 2nd ed. includes a chapter on State and Local Government (Ch. 14), https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/american-government . Its license is CC BY. Hope this helps!

I used this as an opportunity to test SUNY's fancy new OER search site OASIS and came up with a couple I never would have found otherwise. Hats off to SUNY!
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38014/38014-h/38014-h.htm
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12968/12968-h/12968-h.htm
They are old, but they are in the public domain and might be a good place to start with a custom-made remix for your instructor.

One of our professors here in Texas created this book for Texas State History:
https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/8435

US History

I am working of finding an OER text for the two US History classes, before 1877 and after 1877.
I believe that I have located two of the best resources, The American Yawp books and the OpenStax book. I was just double checking to see if anyone else had something really good that their faculty are using.

Hi Jennifer, here's what I know of that's in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=hst%2020

I have a history professor using Portrait of America, Vols. 1 & 2 for his US History to 1865 and US History Since 1865 courses. He has students summarizing these secondary source articles. Can anyone recommend anything similar that’s not $150?

How about The American Yawp?
https://www.americanyawp.com/

Hi Michelle, I've gathered together several OER textbook and course options on our History OER Subject Guide (click the sub-tab for "U.S. History"), including options by OpenStax, American Yawp, GALILEO, and several that combine portions of the OpenStax and American Yawp texts together.

We, the LibreTexts people, have integrated six US history texts, all with the same format and a centralized platform for easy remixing,: https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/National_History

We recently adopted the American Government 3rd Edition from OpenStax. Would someone know where we could procure a test bank for this text?
Many of us are moving towards project-based learning, but we would like to have the test banks for our department. Thanks!

Have you seen the Instructor Answer Guide for this textbook? You can find it under the Instructor Resources page for American Government 3e.
This provides a comprehensive list of all of the chapter review questions and answers.
You colleagues might also be interested in the free audiobook version of this textbook that I produced with one of my students.
We have received a lot of positive feedback, especially from students with disabilities and working students.
The resource can be found on our project website, Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts.
Instructors who use Canvas can even download a free course shell with embedded audio players and sample syllabus language.
If you and your colleagues are ever interested in sharing your approach to project-based learning, I would love to learn more.
My approach of assigning quizzes and essays is becoming more challenging now that AI models like Chat GPT are available, so I’m always looking for new strategies.

Great question! All of the instructor resources for American Government 3e can be found on the text's Instructor Resources page.
To access these free resources, you'll need to create an instructor account; you can do so here.
While we don't currently offer a test bank for the text on our site, we offer a plethora of other resources,
including an instructor answer guide featuring the solutions to all end-of-chapter questions.
Additionally, we're excited to hear you've adopted American Government 3e for your course!
Please take 2 minutes to complete our adoption form; this will ensure you receive timely email updates on the text, its ancillary resources, and more.

We have been collecting question banks as part of the OER ADAPT homework platform,
including the OpenStax questions mentioned above and several others in your area. Collectively, we have about 190,000 questions and access is freely given for verified instructors/instructional designers (request online).

Here are the courses in our Commons (with many more available once signed in):
https://adapt.libretexts.org/open-courses/commons
The solutions are available with an account, and many have been updated appreciably to be pedagogically useful although we mostly did this for the STEM question banks.
We have a long way to go, but feel this is a valuable resource in helping to break the "golden handcuffs" that commercial vendors put on faculty
when adopting a commercial textbook (i..e, the ancillary materials).

I have an instructor who is looking for an OER for a History of the American West class. Time span is colonial era to the turn of the 20th century.
Any suggestions are appreciated! Thank you!

I recommend OpenStax's US History textbook. Chapters 4 through 22 should meet your instructor's needs.
This textbook is available for free online, peer-reviewed, and openly licensed.
Additionally, this OER textbook comes with free ancillary resources like LMS course cartridges, PowerPoint slides, a test bank, an instructor answer guide, and more.
You can find the textbook here: https://openstax.org/details/books/us-history .

Portions of The American Yawp may meet your needs.

Western Civilization

Looking for a few OER on Western Civ
Have you seen the Saylor course on Western Civ? https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=31
The problem with Western Civ is that it is kind of hard to pin down. What are the outcomes you're trying to address?

One of our History faculty is looking for an OER textbook for History of Western Civilization 1 and 2. He said he couldn’t find any so if you have some info, please share. Thanks.
I have a few suggestions, though these may not quite match up with what the faculty member has in mind:

Boundless World History
A comprehensive outline of world history
Saylor history courses

This might also be a good course to put together using library database resources. Not open, but already paid for with student tuition and fees.

LS 212 that are OER-certified by Lumen are required by out ATD OER grant. You may want to get in touch with him.

Does anyone have knowledge of a good OER textbook for Western Civ I and II?

I will be using World History: Culture, States and Societies to 1500, by Berger, Israel, Miller, Parkinson, Reeves, and Williams. It’s published by the University of North Georgia Press, and is available through multiple OER sources. Here’s one:
https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/history-textbooks/2/
It’s also available from Amazon and Barnes and Noble. I bought my hard copy for 39.95.
I don’t know whether there is any companion text for after 1500 though.

A while ago someone asked for Western Civilization to 1500, I saw this today and wanted to put it out their incases they were still looking;
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History/Map%3A_World_History_-_Cultures%2C_States%2C_and_Societies_to_1500_(Berger_et_al.)

I am gathering OERs for consideration for our Western Civilization history courses: W. Civ pre 1500 and since 1500.

Here's what I know of that's in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=civ

OTN has several books that might be right.
Western Civilization: A Concise History, Volume 1 - OTN - covers topics including Mesopotamia,Egypt, Persia, Greece, Rome, the Islamic caliphates,
and the early European Middle Ages.
Western Civilization: A Concise History, Volume 2 - OTN - covers topics including the High Middle Ages, the Renaissance,
the European conquest of the Americas, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment.
Western Civilization: A Concise History, Volume 3 - OTN - covers topics including the Industrial Revolution,
the politics of Europe in the nineteenth century, modern European imperialism, the world wars, fascism, Nazism, and the Holocaust, the postwar era,
the Cold War, and recent developments in economics and politics.Also:
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 - LibreTexts - ". . .a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500.
It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China,
Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps,
chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos,
expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook."
World History in the Early Modern and Modern Era (1600 - present) - Saylor.org Academy -
“This course will present a comparative overview of world history from the 17th century to the present era.”
It will “examine the origins of major economic, political, social, cultural and technological trends of the past 400 years and explore the impact of these trends on
world societies.”

Women in American History

A multi-cultural survey of American history from pre-colonial times to the present examining the impact of ethnic and cultural diversity, class, and gender
on the lives of women.

We recently did a search of the repositories and library resources for our American Women's History instructor. Here are our notes.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LYaFWvcBxPolAOFkf1ujEeQN2HZ0Ue8Ylp1S6ciEnPc/edit?usp=sharing

I'm interested in finding OER works on Women's History in the US, especially progressive works.

Here are a few resources I found in a search last summer. New materials may have surfaced since then.
OER:
Women in US History (HIST 215)
Primary Sources
Introduction to Women, Gender Sexuality Studies
Other stuff:
National Women’s History Museum youtube channel
Their website has good stuff, too: www.womenshistory.org/students-and-educators
Women and the American Story - not CC, but free, from the NY Historical Society; many of the chapters are still in development.
Also has teaching articles like this one about #metoo

World Civilization

A history prof wants to assemble a World Civ text from OER resources. He's found the OTL World History to 1500 text from UNG,
and the (probably unusable) website The History Guide (which is not OER and has pretty restrictive terms of use).
OpenStax doesn't have a World Civ / World History text. Except for the OTL text from UNG, the World History resources from this list
are either no longer available or later-period (Saylor).
http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm .
Has anyone come across anything recently, especially regarding non-European history before 1500?
There was a LOT of stuff going on in Africa and Asia.

I would recommend the Boundless World History course offered through Lumen; it seems to have some of the content your prof might be looking for. :)

I hope this message finds everyone well. Does anyone have some great OER Resources for a World Civilizations II course
that covers 15th century to the present. This is the description for the course below:
HIST 2322 World Civilizations II
A survey of the social, political, economic, cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the world from the 15th century to the present.
The course examines major cultural regions of the world in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania and their global interactions over time.
Themes include maritime exploration and transoceanic empires, nation/state formation and industrialization, imperialism, global conflicts and resolutions,
and global economic integration. The course emphasizes the development, interaction and impact of global exchange.

Here's the link to ASCCC OERI's website that lists resources for US and World History:
https://asccc-oeri.org/open-educational-resources-and-history/

You might also be interested in the OpenStax World History, Volume 2: from 1400 textbook that was released last December.
I noticed that the resource is not listed on the ASCCC website, but might align with your class.

World History

I am reaching out to see if anyone has adapted through Pressbooks the open textbook World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 published by the University of North Georgia Press. Or if you may be aware of an ePub or XML file for this text.
The UNG Press and also the Open Textbook Library have the text available via PDF only. As we are looking to adapt this text in Pressbooks, we are trying to locate a more editable file.

Here is a link to the word document I converted from the PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yXdQ_XCAwtvR8l1Ohx2idutn2HBGNKME/view?usp=sharing (it was too large to attach)

I have a faculty member looking for a World History OER textbook (1500-present). So far, this is what he's found, which seems pretty good/straightforward, but he's curious if anyone is using anything else.
https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/modernworldhistory/

Hi Heather, here's what I know of that's in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=World%20History

There is Brook's "A Concise History" series from Portland Community College that covers that area. We have it in our
World History section f our Humanities library (along with Alloso and Williford's book):
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/World_History
and naturally from the source at PCC. All remixable as OER should be.

Here are the resources identified by the ASCCC OERI's discipline lead:
World History
World History to 1500 (C-ID HIST 150) and World History since 1500 (C-ID HIST 160)
Boundless World History (Lumen Learning)
This courseware includes resources copyrighted and openly licensed by multiple individuals and organizations.
Click the words “Licenses and Attributions” at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.
World History to 1500 (C-ID HIST 150)
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 (Berger et al.);
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 (Berger et al.) in LibreTexts (CC BY-SA)
World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500.
Authored by six University System of Georgia faculty members with advanced degrees in History,
this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia,
Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India’s Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas,
and the Khanates of Central Asia.
It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning.
Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook.
It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.--

Japanese

I've come across a couple resources. For intermediate level Japanese, you could look at Preadvanced Japanese available through the Open Textbook Library. There's also a Japanese book available through Wikibooks. Another resource that might be helpful is the JOSHU website, developed by the University of Texas at Austin Japanese Program (although it doesn't appear to be openly licensed).
Is anyone aware of any quality OER materials for first and second year Japanese language courses? I know that Portland State University has “Beginning Japanese for Professionals Book 1 & 2”.
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/6/
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pdxopen/17/
Are there others to investigate?

One of our OER grantee groups recently finished the first volume (of four) of an instructional handbook for JPN 101 courses.
https://dspace.lib.hawaii.edu/handle/10790/3422
The content is licensed CC BY-NC-ND and I can put you in touch with the authors if needed.

These are some more materials I know of, but again they are supplementary materials on Japanese for business:
http://culturalinterviews.wikispaces.com/Cultural%20Interviews%20-%20Japanese

Kanji
I’m working with some local high schools and their foreign language faculty on a few things, including OER. The Chinese and Japanese faculty were asking about resources to work with students to practice writing in Chinese and Japanese script—not fonts for the computer, rather how to write the characters by hand.

"OER" practice writing in Chinese and Japanese script pinyin kanji site:.edu
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22OER%22+practice+writing+in+Chinese+and+Japanese+script+pinyin+kanji+site%3A.edu
Also try these pairs Chinese pinyin Japanese kanji
Don't ignore other, non-OER but free access or local library access materials
General
https://www.google.com/search?q=practice+writing+in+Chinese+and+Japanese+script+pinyin+kanji
Education bias
https://www.google.com/search?q=practice+writing+in+Chinese+and+Japanese+script+pinyin+kanji+site%3A.edu

Library and Information Science

Apologies if I missed a thread on this. We're reassessing our 1 credit library online research and information literacy course and I'm looking to walk the talk and incorporate open pedagogy practices. The final assignment is an annotated bibliography that we encourage students to use as groundwork for other research focused courses.
Besides that, does anyone have non-disposable assignments for info literacy? We're thinking having students edit Wikipages as step in the right direction. Since it's an on-line class, we're not necessarily building that week's assignment as a wiki edit-a-thon.
Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Perhaps students (individually or in groups) could each pick a library database and create either a written guide about the features, resources, and idiosyncrasies of that particular database, or they could create a video tour of the database using screen capture tools like Screencast-O-Matic or other campus-provided screen capture software. The best of the guides/videos could be posted on your library's website, and then subsequent classes could add to them or improve them.

For Wikipedia assignment ideas and additional assistance, you can reach out to the Wiki Education Foundation. They are very responsive and helpful: https://wikiedu.org/contact-us/
Here are some links to assignment ideas, tutorials, links to course pages with assignment ideas, etc: - https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/Resources
- https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/training
At LaGuardia Community College, we have worked with a number of English writing classes using Wikipedia assignments. Please feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions about this (Contact: Ann Matsuuchi, ann.matsuuchi@gmail.com ).

I wanted to send along a few links to the resources we have here at Wiki Education. As a reminder, these resources are for instructors who would like to assign their students to edit Wikipedia as part of a classroom assignment. Please feel free to pass these along to any friends or colleagues at your university or others in the United States and Canada who you think may be looking for new ways to engage their students.
1. Resources for instructors: specifically, take a look at the "Case Studies" handbook and any relevant subject-specific resources in case you didn't get copies, the PDFs of which are available online here.
2. Our online Dashboard: as I mentioned, the Dashboard is a tool we built to help you track your students' work on Wikipedia, provide access to our online trainings and assignment timeline, and more. To take a look, visit dashboard.wikiedu.org. If you log in and create a Wikipedia username for yourself, you'll be able to review our newly-updated online orientation for new instructors.
3. Sample project timelines: If you think you'd like to try and draft an assignment for a future course, you'll need to first do the orientation, and then use our online assignment design wizard to create your course page. To do so, just click the purple "Create course" button once you complete the online training.
You can view a sample 9-week project timeline from fall 2017 here. This template can be adjusted and customized anywhere from 6-weeks to a semester long project.
While there, don't forget to look at the "Timeline" tab for a weekly look at how the project is progressing, the "Students" tab for a look at all the students enrolled and what articles they are working on during the assignment, and the "Articles" tab for a list of all the articles the students touched "live" already this term. If you drop down a row in the "Students" tab you can also see edit summaries of each student edit on Wikipedia, and if use the assessment tools on the "Articles" tab you can look at the cumulative changes students have made to the article throughout the course of the assignment.
4. Next steps: As you browse our resources, let me know what questions you have. I'm here to help and can answer questions via phone, Skype, or email at any time.
If you do plan to run a Wikipedia project with your students this spring or potentially in the coming terms, please email me back with the following information:

Course name;
Term you want to try the assignment in;
Enrollment cap;
Course level (freshman, senior, graduate, etc);

Mathematics

A math instructor is looking for in-class worksheets that students do with paper and pencil that have answer keys for grading. In other words, My Open Math is the opposite of what she wants. Any leads?

I suggest checking OERCommons.org under both K-12 and undergrad levels. Also, try CK12.org

MyOpenMath has a paper test generator built-in. Essentially, it converts an online assignment into a word document. Some clean-up is usually needed to remove tips that only apply to an online version. It can print an answer key as well. The advantage of this is there's a large pool of questions and template assignments to choose from. The disadvantage is it would require some work.
Another option is to print (or copy-paste) the exercises from an OpenStax textbook.
If there's a particular course the instructor is looking for, it's likely there's a more specific OER document that's ready to use.
As an example, here's a lesson book for a Math Literacy/Quantitative Reasoning course which is designed for students to write in and also has an answer key available to instructors.
https://sacmath.net/math83oer

Our math department is interested in OER but they want the ability to assign practice homework like they currently do using MyMathLab, Cengage or Hawkes. Is there anything available that is similar to these programs?

MyOpenMath is great option. It is free and accessible. I am using for last few years.

Our department has moved 100% of all of our classes over to
MyOpenMath. David Lippman is the creator, but there is a very large
community of contributors to tens of thousands of math questions. It
is free and contains assignments connected to just about every OER
book out there. If you want, I can Zoom chat with your department
about it and how to get it set up.
The link to MyOpenMath is:
https://www.myopenmath.com/
I had a grant a couple of years ago to connect the OpenStax math books
that we use to MyOpenMath and I created a getting started with OER
page that might help your faculty. You can find it at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQQ9xeLFWVNKRLNV3S8ZP5rHz7qZuWRuU_BgwYi62Vg/edit?usp=sharing

I hope this message finds you all well. We are in need of assistance for Math resources such as test banks for the following courses,
College Algebra, Elementary Statistics, Contemporary Mathematics, Trigonometry, Calculus I-III.
Any test banks for OER material would be useful. Thanks!

I hope you're doing well! My name is Lindsay Josephs, and I work for OpenStax.
We're an educational initiative based out of Rice University.
With the support of our philanthropic partners, we publish a library of 60+ free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed textbooks.
We offer free online math textbooks (as well as free instructor resources like LMS course cartridges, instructor solution manuals,
and lecture slides) for all the titles you mentioned. I've linked the texts below:
College Algebra
Elementary Statistics
Contemporary Mathematics
Trigonometry
Calculus I-III: Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3
Our full library of math textbooks can be accessed here.

Over the past several years, I have had multiple grants to create OER
math and statistics classes. Most use modified versions of the
OpenStax books that I put on LibreTexts and I use the MyOpenMath
homework system. I created a "Getting Started With Math OER" page
that can be found here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQQ9xeLFWVNKRLNV3S8ZP5rHz7qZuWRuU_BgwYi62Vg/edit?usp=sharing
It is pretty easy to change the homework assignments into exams.

Applied Technical Math
I have a faculty member who is working on curriculum for an Applied Technical Math course and is having a hard time finding material that has mechanical applications (she would would love Welding specific). She is really looking for word problems. If anyone has any suggestions that I could pass on, it would be appreciated!!

Our faculty has a nice page ‘Math explained’ with video’s: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/eemcs/study/online-education/math-explained/
But I think that’s math and mechanical. This material can be used. You will not find a Creative Commons license but that’s because they did not think about that.
A number of our community colleges were involved in the TAACCCT grants which involved developing openly licensed instructional materials for workforce development. In particular the National STEM Consortium was an early and innovative grantee with 10 colleges who developed multiple career strands. In particular, they developed a math course to support workforce instruction with the Open Learning Initiative program at Carnegie Mellon. You can find out more about their program at these link and also a link to the openly licensed math course. Please let me know if you need introductions.
http://www.nationalstem.org/
http://oli.cmu.edu/courses/all-oli-courses/stem-readiness/

Perhaps one of these would have something applicable?
SkillsCommons: https://www.skillscommons.org/ -- contains learning materials and program support materials for job-driven workforce development.
BCCampus Common Core Trades: https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Common%20Core

I have worked on an NSF grant with the welding instructors at my college and we have developed a decent amount of curriculum around math and welding. Please pass on our website to her: www.nwtc.edu/mathnsf. If she is interested in more information there is a place to inquire about more information.

Arithmetic
Hi, colleagues,
A friend asked me to OER to replace texts in Geometry and Arithmetic courses. I recommended CK12. OpenStax will soon be releasing a pre-algebra book. Do you know of any other resources I can recommend?

Here's what's being used in Oregon:

Developmental Math — An Open Program: Arithmetic, Geometry and Statistics at http://www.nrocnetwork.org/system/files/resources/DM%20OpenText%20Units%201-8_042013.zip and http://www.nrocnetwork.org/resource/devmath-open-textbooks-units-1-19-pdf-word-formats

Arithmetic for College Students by David Lippman Creative Commons Attribution license

Fundamentals of Mathematics by Denny Burzynski
I'd also recommend http://utahmiddleschoolmath.org/ and http://www.mathematicsvisionproject.org/ .

Culinary Math
I’m in search of culinary math OER – things like scaling recipes, unit conversions, recipe costing and also adding/subtracting/multiplying fractions and finding the area of shapes. I’ve found some general math resources that are helpful, but would prefer to find more culinary or cooking-focused resources.

One resource I'd definitely check out is BC Campus's Trades materials, which includes a line of resources for Culinary Arts. The math might be in metric, however.
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Professional%20Cook
SkillsCommons would be another place to dig.

I know this has been years in the making, but this is a good opportunity to follow up with two OERs that address culinary math.
These were created in the past couple of years for Renton Tech's culinary and bakery math courses by Eunice Graham, one of our math faculty members:
Culinary Math
Bakery and Business Math
I'd be curious to know if you happened to find any other OER that fit your needs.
I also found some possibilities in Libretexts – Workforce (may just be different version of B.C. Campus.)
1: Trade Math
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Food_Production_Service_and_Culinary_Arts/Basic_Kitchen_and_Food_Service_Management_(BC_Campus)/01%3A_Trade_Math
2.1: Recipe Conversion
https://workforce.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Food_Production_Service_and_Culinary_Arts/Culinary_Foundations_(Cheramie_and_Thibodeaux)/02%3A_Recipe_conversions_and_Braising/2.01%3A_Recipe_Conversion
Measuring and Equivalents – worksheets at bottom
https://www.oercommons.org/authoring/59349-measuring-and-equivalents/view
Download: MEASURING_worksheet.docx
Download: Measuring_PowerPoint_hz5jVpk.pptx
Download: Measurement_Lab_meyc6qL.docx
Searches
B.C. Open Collection – search for culinary math
search for culinary math + Trades OER Textbooks
https://collection.bccampus.ca/subjects/trades/?q=culinary%20math&viewAllTextbooks=true
Skills Commons - MORE Lessons: Culinary Arts Contextualized Mathematics
https://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/12924

There are a bunch of good suggestions here. One more that may be relevant:
Technical Mathematics by Morgan Chase
It's for CTE in general rather than culinary.

Business Calculus
Hope the semester start is going well. I am looking for an OER Business Calculus text/learning platform (homework-quizzes-etc).
Is www.myopenmath.com the ultimate winner in this space?
Are there better alternatives?

You may also want to look into WeBWork: https://webwork.maa.org
https://courses1.webwork.maa.org/webwork2 and the Open Problem Library: https://webwork.maa.org/wiki/Open_Problem_Library

If you compare the three big technologies: WeBWorK, IMathAS (aka the technology behind OpenMath or Lumen's OHM) and H5P, you will find each tech has it strengths and weakness and trying to pick the winner depends strongly on many factors - security, flexibility, library size, accessibility, field etc. We decided to take a different route and are integrating all three (and others) together within the same infrastructure for maximum flexibility and utility, which we call QUERY or ADAPT depending on if you want adaptive learning trees backing your problems (customizable with analytics/machine learning etc).

We are in the infancy of this system, although a dozen plus courses are using bits and pieces of it already either summatively or formatively and embedded within their textbook (via LibreTexts or outside). I will be testing it out in my classes this academic year (~700 students total). This, admittedly longish video, shows the basics of the approach: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83Q_gTbFatR74UV_Cbq0hZ3VvAxhRZJ3
and the QUERY library of about 90k problems, including the Open Problem Library that Anita mentioned can be pursued via https://QUERY.libretexts.org .
This a free to the community and supported by the US Department of Education and the California Education Learning Lab (although we will probably need next-to-nothing support to sustain in in the future, but since we are not trying to make a profit it won't be much).

Business Math

I have gotten a request from a Business Math instructor about potential OER for Business Math. I already have the excellent text, Business Math: A Step-by-Step Handbook, by J. Olivier on my short list... but, of course, the book has a Canadian focus. Some of the chapters are universal, but some of the chapters are not. Has anyone adapted, or started adapting, this text for the U.S.? Are there any other basic Business Math-specific OER texts out there that I am missing?

Maybe the OpenStax “Intro to Business Statistics” will have valuable info in the first three chapters?

https://openstax.org/details/books/introductory-business-statistics

I recently put together the following list for an Applied Math for Business course. One of the textbooks was the title you listed, the other two were:

· Inigo, M., Jameson, J., Kozak, K., Lanzetta, M., & Sonier, K. (n.d.) College Mathematics for Everyday Life (2nd ed.) Coconino Community College. http://libraryguides.nau.edu/cccoer Note: Topics include statistics, probability, finance, graph theory, etc.
· Mahbobi, M. (2016). Introductory Business Statistics with Interactive Spreadsheets. 1st Canadian Edition. Thompson Rivers University. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 and available at https://www.oercommons.org/courses/introductory-business-statistics-with-interactive-spreadsheets-1st-canadian-edition/view

Calculus
Active Calculus is an open textbook for calculus with an inquiry-based learning approach. The site for this book is: http://faculty.gvsu.edu/boelkinm/Home/Active_Calculus.html
More info: http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=4194#p11866

I have a group of math faculty who are not opposed to OER but love their current book Calculus: Early Transcendental for many reasons. I do know there are quite a few options out there for Calculus which is why I’m reaching out here. Are there any math faculty who can recommend a book which has a “flow” very similar to the one mentioned above?

Hi Amanda,
We use the OpenStax Calculus textbook that also does early transcendentals. My team built a full set MyOpenMath CCby assignments that go with the book. The MyOpenMath course id is:
30585 The sets link directly to the book and related videos. Honestly, I have found that very few students read the textbook since they prefer to learn from the videos instead. This was true even before we moved from the expensive textbook to the OER one.

As a layperson with an interest in math, it looks to me like Callahan’s “Calculus in Context” and Marsden and Weinstein’s Calculus I, II, and III come closest to the flow of the textbook you identify.
http://www.math.smith.edu/~callahan/
https://authors.library.caltech.edu/25030/

We constructed a Textmap (a Remix modeled after a commercial text) for Stewart's book for just this reason:
https://math.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Calculus/Map%3A_Calculus_-_Early_Transcendentals_(Stewart)
There is room to polish, but the framework is there. If this is what you want done, we can move it up our priority list.

Our faculty were looking for a replacement for Stewart’s Calculus too and ended up having the whole Math department work on editing Apex Calculus. Our version is in our institutional repository at https://commons.und.edu/oers/2/

Calculus For Life Science
I’m wondering if anyone knows of a textbook or OER that might be appropriate for a course titled “Calculus for the Life Sciences”. I’ve been told that it can’t be “just calculus, but calculus for the life sciences”.

As for open textbooks, this is one I found. It's a two volume title.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=92
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=120

Health Science Math
One of our math faculty would like to switch to OER for a new course - Math for Careers in Health Science. This is big at Northern Essex CC! None of our math faculty use OER or have been open to talking about it, so therefore - I have never explored what is available. Although, I know there are lots of great resources that have been developed.
Here is the course description:
This course focuses on health-based mathematical applications using algebraic and arithmetic operations. The topics include the basic manipulation of fractions and decimals, the measurement systems and conversion procedures, percent, ratio and proportion, linear equations, topics in statistics, topics in health professions including dosages, dilutions and IV flow rates. This course is intended for careers in health science.

OpenStax offers a free, online, peer-reviewed Contemporary Mathematics textbook that may be of interest. This OER textbook includes a section titled "Math and Medicine". Instructors can use the entire book or select chapters and sections. Additionally, since this textbook is published under an open license, instructors can even customize the textbook (add content, remove content, rearrange content) using our Docx customization resource.
You can access Contemporary Mathematics here:
https://openstax.org/details/books/contemporary-mathematics

Math Anxiety

I worked on an OER grant project last year with an English faculty member to create an ENG101 course focused on math anxiety. At the time, I did some searching for a textbook, but didn’t find anything. Instead, the instructor used open access sources like web sites and articles from the library’s databases. She made her entire course public in Canvas Commons, so you can take a look at it, if you want. We included attributions/citations for all the readings so you can find them (or articles similar to them) in your own library databases. The instructor’s name is Gayatri Sirohi, and the course info as it appears in Canvas Commons is below.

Mathematics Education
Free, but not necessarily OER resources on growth mindset that I think are worth a look:
https://www.mindsetkit.org/
http://growthmindsetmemes.blogspot.com/2015/07/growth-mindset-blog-challenge-something.html (the whole blog is worth exploring and I know the author is big on sharing and likely would explicitly license anything that she has created which is not clear)

I have a teacher that is looking to shift her course to OER resource(s) and is looking for a textbook.
The course is “Teaching Mathematics to Young Children” and is part of our Early Childhood Education program.
We are looking for a resource (or resources) that would cover as many of the objective and outcomes as possible.
We have done some preliminary searching, but have not had much luck.

K-12 Math and Technology Resources may provide some avenues to explore: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/education-textbooks/2/

The description is “This document is a collaborative student work, comprising a directory of
resources about mathematics and technology for kindergarten through fifth grade.
This resource was created with the support of an ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
Topics include teaching and learning theories, problem solving, assessment,
equity, technological tools, and measurements.”

You may find this resource helpful - Teaching Math & Science to Young Children - Textbook
< https://guides.hostos.cuny.edu/edu111 >.

Another wonderful resource is the Math Equity Toolkit for middle school supported by Education Trust-West and built by educators, researchers, classroom teachers, instructional specialists. The process for educators and administrators was designed for middle school but certainly applies to high school and college instruction as well.

A Pathway to Equitable Math Instruction is an integrated approach to mathematics that centers

Black, Latinx, and Multilingual students in grades 6-8, addresses barriers to math equity,

and aligns instruction to grade-level priority standards.

The Pathway offers guidance and resources for educators to use now as they plan their curriculum,

while also offering opportunities for ongoing self-reflection as they seek to develop an anti-racist math practice.

The toolkit “strides” serve as multiple on-ramps for educators as they navigate the individual and collective journey from equity to anti-racism.

They joined us for a webinar last month to discuss the theme of anti-racism in math instruction

and how teachers can come together to reflect on their practices and make improvements to

the classroom environment to support their students of color and different cultures.

Math for Elementary Teachers
A faculty member is looking for open resources for MTH211, MTH212, and MTH213, Math for Elementary School Teachers. I just did a scan through the OTL, College Open Textbooks, OER Commons, and AIM but didn't find anything to recommend. Any suggestions?

You may want to try the resources at http://engagingmathematics.ipower.com/teaching-manuals/ . These are not textbooks but maybe some of the information can be remixed with other resources to meet the learning objectives of certain concepts. Their teaching manuals are CC BY NC SA
Hi all, thanks for the quick replies! A few suggestions rose to the top:

http://engagingmathematics.ipower.com/teaching-manuals/
http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/education-textbooks/2/
http://www.oerafrica.org/african-teacher-education-oer-network-aten/acemaths

I am working with a faculty member who is searching for a mathematics for elementary teachers OER. Some of the topics included in the curriculum are: elementary number theory, multiple conceptual models and algorithms for the basic arithmetic operations, elementary set theory.

One of our faculty members developed this OER specifically for elementary teachers and mathematics:
http://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/mathforelementaryteachers/
It can be easily cloned in Pressbooks, or used via one of the many other export file formats shown on the landing page dropdown menu.

I like the EngageNY modules. They are mostly CC BY NC SA https://www.engageny.org/

I will teach a class based on the subject of this email: A Book for Math for Elementary School Teachers. Does anyone have suggestions within the OER listings? Here is the Course of Record too.
https://rccd.curricunet.com/Report/Course/GetReport/4425?reportId=97

You might want to check out Mathematics for Elementary Teachers by Michelle Manes.

In case you our interested, I spent last summer creating a full set of MyOpenMath assignments that go with Julie Harland's Understanding
Elementary Mathematics textbook. The course ID is: 50977 it is also a promoted course in MyOpenMath. In the MyOpenMath course, you can
find the textbook's corresponding section linked from each problem,
Larry Green

Eureka math is a great math curriculum also look up embarc for the videos to go with each lesson i hope this helps!

Math Literacy

I'm looking for OER textbooks or online homework for a Math Literacy pathway course. This is a non-transferable course at the Beginning/Intermediate Algebra level but providing a foundation for Statistics or Math for Liberal Arts Majors. Ideally the textbook would primarily use a contextual approach (based on real-world scenarios or applications). It doesn't need to cover all the topics of an Intermediate Algebra course. Which OER textbooks or online resources would be the best fit for this course?
The Open Textbook Store has some arithmetic books. You might want to check them out.

http://www.opentextbookstore.com/catalog.php

Also, A lot of math instructors like using my open math from Lumen--it is similar to my math lab. https://www.myopenmath.com/ Overcoming

Pre-Calculus/ College Algebra
We have a math faculty member who is doing a curriculum project on his College Algebra course and is considering using the OpenStax Algebra & Trig textbook. I am looking for connections to other faculty members who are currently using this textbook along with MyOpenMath. His biggest concern is moving away from the homework platform of MyMathLab.

We just completed a grant where we created MyOpenMath assignments for most of the OpenStax math books including the Pre Calculus class. You can find information about it at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQQ9xeLFWVNKRLNV3S8ZP5rHz7qZuWRuU_BgwYi62Vg/edit?usp=sharing

You've gotten so many great responses that I'm not sure you need more, but you can use control-F to find that book and that platform on the Open Oregon Resources page: https://openoregon.org/resources. Where faculty are willing to be contacted about their course, they've included their name/email address on the right side of the page.

Quantitative Reasoning

Coconino Community College has 2 open source (cc by sa) textbooks that may be helpful. Here is the link:https://www.coconino.edu/open-source-textbooks
I've used the College Mathematics for Everyday Life for one of my courses and found it to be a well thought out work.
I currently am working on an OER resource (Mass Go Open grant) for Quantitative Reasoning courses. Quantitative Reasoning can cover a variety of topics in mathematics. The resource that I am working on is not a stand alone textbook, rather, it is a set of links to a variety of topics that may be taught in a survey of math course. When the resource is uploaded, I will send out the link.
If you have materials that you would like me to consider for inclusion in the resource or topics that your school covers in their Quantitative Reasoning course, please send them along!
Annette Guertin

One of our Math faculty who is developing a new course, Quantitative Reasoning, and will very much appreciate any assistance you can offer. Looking for open textbook, open course, or any other open resource.
An Oregon community college instructor wrote a chapter on logic that is meant to accompany Lippman's textbook: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/logic-math-in-society
As part of the GP Stem grant, Andrea Robare and I compiled a list of OER resources for Quantitative Literacy courses. The information will be available on skillscommons at a later date. Annette M. Guertin Professor of Mathematics Berkshire Community College 1350 West Street Pittsfield, MA 01201

We are looking for Quantitative Reasoning (MATH1332) and Algebra (MATH1314) OER texts. Have you come across any good ones?

OpenStax offers both: https://openstax.org/subjects/math

Whenever I get this question, I am happy to share the curated list of materials from the American Institute of Mathematics.
This list includes open textbooks broken up by topic,
with additional details on each page including the formats that the books are available in, their table of contents, and notes from reviewers.

Statistics and Math for Elementary School Teachers
I am a librarian working with faculty to find and adopt open textbooks for their courses. Several of the faculty members are interested in discovering what other colleges are using for the same, or similar, courses and seeing what worked or didn't work for them and their students. The two courses we are most interested in seeing what others are using are introductory statistics and mathematics for elementary school teachers (or something similar).
We are most interested in community college level material, but all input is welcome! I have had some trouble finding an OER textbook that replaces their current A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary Teachers textbook.

I have been using Illowsky's OER statistics book for several years now. I have created an online homework system in the canvas LMS and have also created a Google Sheets spreadsheet program that does just about everything that is needed in terms of computation. It is all open to use and modify as one wishes. You can find my syllabus for this quarter at:

Online: https://laketahoecc.instructure.com/courses/706/assignments/syllabus
Face to Face: https://laketahoecc.instructure.com/courses/713/assignments/syllabus

The syllabi have links to the book and other materials. If you want access to the Canvas homework system and the rest of the materials I can add the instructor to the course that is hosted by the state. email me at drLarryGreen@gmail.com

I co-authored Intro Stats, published by OpenStax. It's now used at approximately 350 colleges and universities. My co-author and I wrote it for cc students. There are many CA CC colleges who use the text as well as CSUs.

There are 29,500 students this year using the OpenStax Introductory Statistics book.
I’ve attached a report of current adoptions of OpenStax by book, including for the Introductory Statistics book. I included all books because I thought others on this list might want this list for other books as well.

Three courses at our university are using an open textbook for statistics. Three small courses are using the OpenIntro Statistics book, while a large course of about 700 students (over two terms) is using Advanced high School Statistics. Both can be found here - https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php

You can see what's being used in Oregon's community colleges for math here: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=mth%20

Coconino Community College has 2 open source (cc by sa) textbooks that may be helpful. Here is the link:https://www.coconino.edu/open-source-textbooks

Looking for statistics data sets:
There are tons of interesting open data sets to choose from! These sites list several:
http://rs.io/100-interesting-data-sets-for-statistics/
https://r-dir.com/reference/datasets.html
http://www.statsci.org/datasets.html

I believe that the OpenIntro Statistics Books have open access data sets through the website. - https://www.openintro.org/index.php

I'm in a meeting with a math faculty member who is teaching Statistics for the first time at our institution.
She is using OER, but is really frustrated that in the open materials she examined gender is presented multiple times as a binary.
Has anyone started/participated in/ found out about any Statistics resources that present gender as much more complicated than a simple binary?

I am currently on the continuous improvement team at Lumen, and we are actively making changes to all of our courses for better inclusivity – including gender.
We are frequently alerted to changes that we need to make by suggestions from students,
and I would love to work with your faculty member in making changes and updates to our introductory
Concepts in Statistics course: https://lumenlearning.com/courses/concepts-in-statistics/ (she can access the OER by clicking "view course content and outcomes")

We are looking for OER case studies or projects that cover:
Social Justice
Climate Change
Public Health
These will be used as part of our dual-enrollment statistics course to build a bridge to college for high school students.

I think this might be useful:
Statistics for Social Justice Studies – Canvas Commons
This workbook is primarily organized into modules that correspond with topics commonly presented in an introductory statistics class. The Table of Contents lists these modules, topics, and activities, along with the alignment to the OpenStax Statistics textbook. An alignment of the modules to several other texts is available in “For Instructors.”

Am seeking on behalf of Math faculty datasets which faculty are using in Math & Society and Statistics.
We are aware that there are lots of social justice and other datasets which exist, but those which other Math instructors are currently
using may have a manageable scope and size for 1st year, community college students to work with. We will make a
Spokane Community College library guide if we're able to assemble even a small group of usable datasets.
Thanks for any contributions or advice.

Carleton College has a collection of CC-licensed instruction materials that include some activities centered around data/statistics
and climate (hopefully this link works):
https://serc.carleton.edu/sp/search.html?q1=sercvocabs__72%3A2&q2=sercvocabs__43%3A4&q3=sercvocabs__43%3A120
A lot of the activities seem to be on the older side, though, and external links seem pretty iffy.
I'm hoping it'll still be useful as examples of in-class activities with paired datasets that likely still exist but are now at different URLs.
I hope you're able to gather some other materials as well! I'd love for there to be more examples of stuff like this out there.

I am helping a math faculty member with their Statistics course. For anyone using OpenStax Introductory Statistics, is there a free replacement for the TI 83 or TI 84 calculators that are mentioned throughout the text as necessary to complete exercises?
This would need to be a free program, site, etc. that would be able to perform distributions, probabilities, and other statistical functions.

I coded up a statistics calculator that I use with my statistics
class. I remixed the OpenStax textbook so that it shows my calculator
instead of the TI 84. They are fully OER, and both can be found on
LibreTexts:
Calculator:
https://stats.libretexts.org/Learning_Objects/02%3A_Interactive_Statistics/46%3A__Links_to_the_Calculators
Remixed Textbook:
https://stats.libretexts.org/Courses/Lake_Tahoe_Community_College/Book%3A_Introductory_Statistics_(OpenStax)_With_Multimedia_and_Interactivity_LibreTexts_Calculator
My broader collection if statistics calculators and activities can be
found at:
https://stats.libretexts.org/Learning_Objects/02%3A_Interactive_Statistics

I asked one of our learning support specialists who works with math extensively. He recommended the following:
https://www.stattrek.com
For graphing:
https://www.geogebra.org/graphing
https://www.desmos.com/calculator

When I've taught statistics out of an OER, I often used LibreOffice Calc and/or Excel for these basic calculational tasks.
It's quite easy, the students either are already somewhat familiar with spreadsheets or this gives them a gentle introduction,
and it scales well from tiny toy examples up to fairly reasonably sized datasets (for an intro to stats course, at least). And Excel tends to be installed on most campus computers,
while LibreOffice is a free and FLOSS alternative I can suggest for students to use on their own computers, if they don't already have MS Office.
There also tend to be so very many websites with particular "calculators" -- a T-test calculator, a regression grapher, etc., etc., etc. ... you name,
there's probably at least a half-dozen free online tools. They change all the time and some have clunky interfaces,
but I think they probably are all reasonably accurate (unless someone is using ChatGPT to drive one of these, in which case it's probably garbage!).
I would often search of "free online <name of statistical thing> calculator" when I was starting that unit of the course, look over what came up and share a list with my students ...
with a positive or negative review in a couple of lines, to point out issues that come up, in the eyes of an expert, when using one of the first-returned search results.
Because you know any internet-literate student is doing the same search and using what comes up first or second.

Symbolic Algebra Systems

I use Open Source texts and MyOpenMath for all of my mathematics courses at American River College. I also use GeoGebra for some activities, including deriving 1/2g from a timelaps photograph of a ball being thrown.

Years ago there was an excellent application called LiveMath (a successor to Theorist and MathView) which did not solve equations, but instead required students preform the necessary steps to reach a solution. Each step was shown. If an earlier value was changed the computations would be recalculated. For more advanced courses it also had the ability to use transformation rules to use identities. (LiveMath itself is still available, but updates have not been available for Linux since 2011.)

Are there any existing symbolic algebra applications (open source or not) that have these qualities?

Attached is a screen image showing some of the features and how nicely the results were rendered.

I have a Math faculty member interested in MyMathLab & WebAssign alternatives. I sent her information about MyOpenMath and WebWork and she is looking into them. In the meantime, she would like to know specific colleges that are using these programs. Also, are there any other OER or low cost alternatives to MyMathLab & WebAssign?

We are using MOM in all of our essential math courses at American River College and Math Ideas courses. We've also created three courses including an intermediate algebra course that matches the curriculum of one of the most popular intermediate algebra texts, Marge Lial, also written by a former ARC mathematics professor.

The intermediate algebra course is not yet a template course, but is available to all who ask.

A few Math faculty at HCC are using WeBWorK. The is some cost for the IT support needed.
In your area, Santiago Canyon College, Santa Ana College and Cerritos College are using MyOpenMath significantly. Using WebAssign with an OER textbook could help ease the transition for faculty already familiar with it. If it helps, I'd be happy to talk by phone with Math faculty at OCC about our experience with MyOpenMath.

Test Preparation
I'm gathering resources for our folks preparing to take our math assessment (will do the same for English and Reading tomorrow - students are back Monday!).
I tend to focus on the lower level -- here's what I've found so far ... additions/suggestions welcome (I'm also trying to put together an even more basic "so you decided you're sick of not knowing your times tables" module together... JavaScript/CSS/HTML is a powerful combination!)
Suggested additions welcome!
Algebra 2 go: courses in pre-algebra through Calc 2, with videos, worksheets, quizzes, and study guide — and includes “Exam Preparation” https://www.saddleback.edu/faculty/lperez/algebra2go/index.html
RWM101: Foundations of Real World
https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=38 (lots ofKhan Academy videos)
RWM102: Real World Math Algebra 1
https://learn.saylor.org/course/view.php?id=39
My Open Math
includes a PreAlgebra and a Beginning and Intermediate Algebra course.
https://www.myopenmath.com/info/selfstudy.php
Phoenix College Self-Study Math MOOCS includes and arithmetic MOOC and Introductory Algebra Modules (and lots of more advanced topics).
https://www.phoenixcollege.edu/programs/mathematics/self-study-math-moocs

Susan - colleagues at Jacksonville State have been using OER for developmental math and language. Courtney Peppers and colleagues have rich empirical support for their resources and pedagogy. I'd reach out for more information as I don't believe their resources are widely published.

Topology
For an independent study I want to do with an eager math student:
Does anyone know of an OER for basic topology? Starting with point-set topology, doing fundamental group, probably basic homology...?
And/or basic differential geometry?
I've looked in all the usual places, and haven't found anything great! (or really anything at all)
...I know this is a fairly advanced topic in the undergrad mathematics curriculum and so maybe related OER don't exist (yet!), but I thought I'd just ask.
For that matter, if anyone on this list is a math person with maybe just some openly licensed lecture notes or handouts or anything of that kind
(or who has a colleague who might have such things), I'd be happy to pull them together into the start of a topology OER.

Via a colleague whose dissertation was on topology (and who co-authored a 700pp Precalc OER):
https://aimath.org/textbooks/approved-textbooks/hitchman/

Veterinary Math
One of our math faculty is working with our veterinary technician faculty to design a one-credit hour course for practical veterinary technology math skills. Any ideas or suggestions for a text?

I found 34 resources in the MERLOT collection, including some textbooks:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)

In addition to the previous suggestions, there are a few "math for..." OER being used in Oregon:
- Technical Mathematics: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/techmath/
- Mathematics for Health and Physical Sciences: https://cnx.org/contents/QORnDvSs@9.1:FhAZ6-Ts@4/Reading-and-Writing-Decimals
- Math for Bio, Mgmt, Soc Science: https://moodle.linnbenton.edu/course/view.php?id=4130

Videos
In the spirit of open education week. It is with great pleasure that Bay College shares all (175) of its MATH 085, 095, 105 and 110 tutorial videos under a CC-BY 4.0 license. These videos are ALL closed captioned.
Pre-Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZe_qNgDt_lqqnRjvGNkePq7
Basic Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZfqN4Kqgg7mF0AJOEN2Fzb8
Intermediate Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZc-cv2_JNITRG2ojdE5zCL2
College Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZe9WwXL9LGFPnEkF799M43c

Bay College (Michigan):
Math Study Skills:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZfEgWeT2azll784Fq7mG6ws
Pre-Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZe_qNgDt_lqqnRjvGNkePq7
Basic Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZfqN4Kqgg7mF0AJOEN2Fzb8
Intermediate Algebra: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9dj44OpeMZc-cv2_JNITRG2ojdE5zCL2
College Algebra:https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PL9dj44OpeMZe9WwXL9LGFPnEkF799M43c
MathIsPower4U.com (James Sousa at Phoenix College):https://www.youtube.com/user/bullcleo1/featured
Over 5000 mini-lessons (all closed captioned) in topics from arithmetic through post calculus

YourMathGal.com (Julie Harland at MiraCosta College):
organized by topic: https://sites.google.com/site/harlandclub/Home/math

YouTube channel, videos not organized by topic: https://www.youtube.com/user/videosbyjulieharland/featured

Nursing

The grant I worked on, Rx Tennessee, dealt exclusively with healthcare related material. All of Roane State Community College's grant materials can be found on Skills Commons: https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=Roane+State+

The first link that I previously sent out was very vague and didn’t narrow down the search results. Here are more specific links:
A Prescription for Training Healthcare Workers in Tennessee (RxTN):http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/399
Direct link to RxTN Learning Resources Collections: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/400
Direct link to RxTN Program Support Materials Collection: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/931

We have many useful modules including Transitions to Nursing, Pharmacology for Nursing, Phlebotomy, and a Nursing Academic Bootcamp which features a variety of modules designed to help students with medical terminology and other study skills. There's lots to choose from and I tried my best to make them as accessible as possible. These materials have worked well at our institution. I hope they can be just as useful to you.

One other resource - Carnegie Mellon OLI has a Healthcare IT Foundations course that is licensed CC-BY-NC-SA. I really like this resource because, beyond IT, it covers a range of topics that are covered in many courses like healthcare organizations, professional behaviors, and information privacy. Given the open licensing, it is easy to remix into any course.

https://oli.cmu.edu/jcourse/lms/students/syllabus.do?section=df3dcb930a0001dc00a4a5e2746e42b4

shorter duration and the ability for the students to go right into the workforce.
As I mentioned earlier, among the learning materials are medical terminology modules and a nursing math module.

I am searching for nursing OER, more specifically for a perioperative course (surgery). Is anyone familiar with this niche or can guide me to modules, journal articles, text, etc.

This may not be the topics that are needed – but it is very well done: https://www.openpediatrics.org/collection/simulators

Also, Open SUNY has an open textbook on Nursing care at end of life which might be more related to your question earlier this week.
https://textbooks.opensuny.org/nursing-care-at-the-end-of-life/

Chapter 13 of the Introduction to Sociology is on aging and the elderly — this is the Canadian version but believe it was adapted from the OpenStax book of the same name.
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter13-aging-and-the-elderly/

Also, here is a philosophy course on death from Open Yale University. Course notes and videos are generally open but sometimes journal articles and other resources are not so best to confirm those details when re-using.
http://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-176

I am assisting a faculty member in locating oer for dosage or clinical calculations for nurses - for context it is for pre-licensure nursing.

Have you checked out the OpenRN Nursing Pharmacology textbook? https://wtcs.pressbooks.pub/pharmacology/
An OER Commons search turned up a few likely options: https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=dosage&f.general_subject=&f.sublevel=&f.alignment_standard=
There are also some results in the Skills Commons database, but I find the results often confusing: http://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=dosage

Our Director of Nursing is looking for OER material on advanced nursing, advanced population health, and healthcare informatics for her graduate program and I'm having a hard time locating resources other than medical terminology. Does anyone have a listing that would be helpful?

I know this may not help I am interested in this being complete, and hopefully if it's successful they will do more.
https://www.cvtc.edu/landing-pages/grants/open-rn

We are starting a new standalone PN to RN bridge.
The faculty are looking to see if there is anything to help practical nurses review practical nursing content before they begin
the more advanced nursing content in the RN program.
For example, before starting the cardiac content in the RN program,
we'd like students to have a resource that includes the more fundamental cardiac content covered
in a practical nursing program.

I liked this site. I saw some of it before it went onto the subscription plan.
But $10 for lifetime access is very reasonable, and there is a 30-day free trial.
Learning Nurse
https://www.learningnurse.org/index.php
It’s Canadian-based, but the parts specific to Canada seem to be well-labeled (e.g. e-LearningàLPN Ethics Course).

Gerontology

My dean needs me to teach an Introduction to Gerontology course (community college certificate) and I need to get any materials, textbooks, videos, etc. ASAP. I would really like to use OER (or other low cost options). Please help : )

One OR college faculty member is teaching gerontology with library resources as course materials: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=grn
Your library may already have access to these texts, or it may be feasible to purchase a multiple simultaneous user license - I recommend checking with a librarian :)

Good Friday afternoon everyone. I have a nursing instructor who is looking to replace a commercial textbook currently used for a course in Gerontology. Her colleagues are using Gerontological Nursing & Healthy Aging by Touhy, Jett, Boscart, and McCleary, while students have found Gerontological Nursing Competencies For Care (4th Edition) by Mauk more useful. She would prefer that her students not have to buy a textbook. Does anyone know of any good existing OER that might replace the textbook?

If not, she had expressed interest that such a book should be created (big dreams).
In MERLOT, we have one OER book on gerontology:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=1115588
I also found this link to top 25 Gerontology resources:
http://guides.lib.uw.edu/hsl/apnger/top25
On aging, I found a course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-342-the-biology-of-aging-age-related-diseases-and-interventions-fall-2011/
A short book: https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=514091
There are also numerous other resources that they could look through on aging:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=aging&sort.property=relevance

Medical Terminology

I'm looking for suggestions of open (or free) medical terminology pronunciation guides. So far the closest we've come is this: https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/pronunciations#

Kiri Dali knows what is on knowledgetowork.com - I don’t have computer access to check!

Wisc-Online has several OER on learning medical terminology, including a couple focused on pronunciation:
- Medical Terminology Jukebox
- Medical Terminology Pronunciation Jukebox

A couple other resources that might be helpful:
- MedLinePlus has a tutorial for learning medical terms that includes pronunciation.
- Merriam Webster also has a medical dictionary that includes pronunciation of the terms.

Medical Surgical Nursing

I'm on the lookout for a recently updated OER Medical Surgical Nursing Textbook for our nursing faculty.
I've searched the major repositories but haven't had much luck. Does anyone happen to know where I might find one? Any leads would be greatly appreciated.

OpenStax has an entire Nursing series in development, including Medical-Surgical Nursing!
Another excellent Nursing OER collection is Open RN & Next Gen RN.

As Aloha mentioned, OpenStax is publishing a Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook as part of the OER Nursing Essentials (ONE) Project in collaboration with
the the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The draft pdf of the textbook can be found on the nursing hub:
https://oertx.highered.texas.gov/hubs/ONE-nursing
The hub also links to collaborative groups for each text in the series, if you'd like to stay up to date on the publication and connect with others using the book.
The ONE Summit was held at the end of February and featured presentations from several of the textbook authors, including the authors of the Medical-Surgical Nursing text.
You can view the full summit recordings from the OpenStax ONE Summit YouTube playlist.

Mental Health and Obstetrics

I’m helping nursing faculty locate an open textbook in mental health and obstetrics. I’ve found one that focuses on obstetrics, but I don’t know if it’s a good fit. Can anyone suggest an open textbook or other resources for mental health and obstetrics?

Wonder if there might be anything from the Open RN project?
https://www.cvtc.edu/landing-pages/grants/open-rn

Newborn Pictures

I am looking for open source images for Nursing Department, specifically on newborn assessment images or illustrations. Does anyone know of a source?

Some of the places where I find the best pictures.
General pictures:
https://pixabay.com/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.flickr.com/
Medical pictures (since this is for nursing):
https://images.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/Home.aspx
https://phil.cdc.gov/phil/
The government sources and pixabay are all (or nearly all) PD. Wikimedia is all open & free, but there are a few different CC & GNU licenses used, so you need to check. Flickr has a lot that are open & free; but I think that one also has other license, so check each image (this is my least favorite in the list but sometimes is useful).
Beside the search box from Creative Commons: https://search.creativecommons.org
I have also made a list for our lecturers with websites with CC license pictures, you can find it on our website under free materials: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/library/theme-portals/copyright/copyright/copyright-rules-for-images/
Our new library website is just released and it may have some errors for instance: Free materials (CC 0 license) that is not correct. It is not only CC 0 you will find all sort of CC licens

Open RN

Have any of you had experience, or have looked into XanEdu's Open RN resources/platform?
I have a nursing faculty who has received promotional emails from them, and I wondered if anyone has thoughts to share.
I will check into it, too. I have doubts about "OER" from publishing companies.

If you are interested in more information about the Open RN project and the five nursing textbooks developed with funding from a Department of Education grant,
please go to our Open RN website. As Una referenced, we are publishing five nursing e-books with CC-BY licensing (with free downloadable versions available),
as well as creating 25 virtual simulations. The Nursing Pharmacology e-book was published in Pressbooks in June 2020. The Nursing Skills e-book
will be published in Pressbooks by May 1, and the Nursing Fundamentals book will undergo peer review in May and will be published by July 2021.
XanEdu is publishing affordable print versions of the Open RN textbooks in soft cover format that can be purchased on Amazon or ordered by college bookstores.
They have also developed course resources available for purchase but are not a part of the grant project.
Feel free to register on the Open RN website for more information about our nursing OER.

Surgical Nursing
I worked on a grant which provided some learning materials for the role of the surgical technologist: http://www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/7768
I don’t know if you would be able to adapt any of these study guides to suit your needs. Perhaps, these materials could be useful or could compliment any textbook that you find.

Here is the site from Central California's TAACCCT grant.
www.skillscommons.org/handle/taaccct/44
You may need to copy and paste the link instead of clicking on it.

I have a super-duper special course with a fantastic faculty person who is on top of her content research and QM.
She specifically asked for OERs that are accessible, which means I have a professional crush on her.
(Honestly, I'd clone her work ethic and perspective to become a billionaire ID by selling it.)
Her course has both a didactic element that is in Canvas delivered through asynchronous and synchronous web-based meetings
and also an onsite experience in actual surgical rooms.
They have a simulation day that makes them demonstrate procedures in person prior to their onsite.
Student's aren't even allowed to go onsite without passing this day. Therefore, we want to mimic experiences prior to their sim day,
so we want to locate video demonstrations, audio explanations, infographics with precise steps, interactives, CYOA - just anything that
engages their body-based learning. We want to do it legally and accessibly.

OpenStax recently released an 8-textbook nursing series. All of the titles in the series are available for free online, peer-reviewed,
and openly licensed. Each of these OER textbooks is aligned with the AACN Essentials and offers next-gen NCLEX preparation support.
You can access the nursing textbook series here.
I believe that the Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook would be a great fit for your fantastic faculty person! :)

Tomography

I know this may be a long shot, but I was wondering if anyone knows of OER for an Introduction to Computed Tomography Principles, Patient Care, Sectional Anatomy, and Procedures course.
I’m working with some very open-minded professors who wish to reduce their students’ textbook costs. Here is a list of course topics:
Basic Principles of Computed Tomography
Computed Tomography Fundamentals
Computed Tomography Equipment and Instrumentation
Computed Tomography Data Acquisition
Computed Tomography Image Reconstruction
Computed Tomography Image Processing
Computed Tomography Patient Care
Computed Tomography Patient Safety
Computed Tomography Neuroimaging
Cross-Sectional Anatomy
Computed Tomography Procedures
Computed Tomography Protocols

This isn't a complete replacement by any means, but a SUNY faculty member just brought this to my attention: National Cancer Institute's SEER Training Modules
It does seem to have case studies that include tomography analysis.

Nutrition

I have an instructor who teaches a class called “Nutrition and Diet Therapy”. The traditional “nutrition” texts cover some of the material she needs but she also needs the specific topics below. Does anyone have any ideas? I did a full search online and couldn’t find anything that covers these topics.

On another note, I couldn’t find very many nutrition texts at all (other than flatworld and saylor). Are there other basic nutrition texts that others are using?

14. Illness and Nutrition Care.

15. Medications, Diet-Drug Interactions, and Herbal Supplements.

16. Specialized Nutrition Support: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition.

17. Foods and Food Consistency for Upper GI Disorders.

18. Fiber-Modified Diets for Lower Gastrointestinal Tract Disorders.

19. Carbohydrate- and Fat-Modified Diets for Malabsorption Disorders.

20. Nutrition Therapy for Liver and Gallbladder Diseases.

21. Carbohydrate-Controlled Diets for Diabetes Mellitus.

22. Fat-Controlled, Mineral-Modified Diets for Cardiovascular Diseases.

23. Protein-, Mineral-, and Fluid-Modified Diets for Kidney Diseases.

24. Energy- and Protein-Modified Diets for Metabolic and Respiratory Stress.

25. Energy- and Protein-Modified Diets for Cancer and HIV Infection.

I haven't spot-checked this against the list above, which seems much more specific than what we've done. However, here is our work in progress on Nutrition from Pierce College. The faculty have been teaching with it for two quarters and still have some changes to make, but they seem okay with it.

https://courses.candelalearning.com/nutritionxmaster/

I received an email from an instructor in Nutrition who would like to replace the commercial textbook currently being used. Below is a link to the current book (Food and Culture) and the course learning outcomes. Thank you very much for any assistance you can provide.
https://www.amazon.ca/Food-Culture-Kathryn-Sucher/dp/1305628055/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1532985712&sr=8-2&keywords=food+and+culture+nelms
Here are the learning outcomes from last year:
1. Explain the relationship between food, food choices, ethno cultural, and religious identity
2. Recognize the role culture plays in influencing group and individual food selection, preparation, consumption and in producing different attitudes and beliefs around food
3. Understand the impact traditional health beliefs and practices have on food choice and health
4. Gain skills in intercultural communication
5. Explore food systems and their impact on individual food choices
6. Become familiar with world religions and understand religious influences on food choice
7. Understand how food patterns of people from different cultures help them meet nutritional needs

A few things have been recommended on the list previously. You can search the complete archives by going to our
https://www.cccoer.org/community-email/ page but highlights include:
1. University of Hawaii Manoa’s new OER nutrition textbook JUST RELEASED in JUNE:
http://oer.hawaii.edu/open-textbooks-for-uh-students/
Human Nutrition
2. University of Kansas open textbook recommended in 2016:
Kansas State has produced a Nutrition book, available in Google Docs. There are a couple of research articles to go along with this book, one in JOLT and another in EduCause.
3. Candela course from Pierce College recommended in 2016:
https://courses.candelalearning.com/nutritionxmaster/

I have an instructor who is interested in an OER textbook and/or resources for her nutrition course

I put together an OER subject guide for Nutrition last summer for an instructor

There are several open nutrition books that can be found on LibreTexts.
These include LibreTexts and supplementary materials at

https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Nutrition

An_Introduction_to_Nutrition_(Zimmerman)
Human_Nutrition_(University_of_Hawaii)
Intermediate_Nutrition_(Lindshield)
Basic_Foundation_of_Nutrition_for_Sports_Performance

In addition there are LibreTexts in the Campus Course sections with both
original and transduced (copied by linking) material from the
Bookshelves.

https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/American_Public_University/APU%3A_Basic_Foundation_of_Nutrition_for_Sports_Performance_(Byerley)

https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/American_Public_University/APUS%3A_An_Introduction_to_Nutrition_(Byerley)

https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/American_River_College/General_Nutrition_Textbook_(not_Plant-Based)-_reference_for_NUTRI_303_(Hagenburger)

https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Dominican_University/DU_Bio_1550%3A_Nutrition_(LoPresto)

https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Folsom_Lake_College/FLC%3A_Nutri_300_(Giordano)/FLC_Nutrition_Courses_-_Giordano

https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Folsom_Lake_College/FLC%3A_Nutri_300_(Pierce)

Billy Meinke-Lau of University of Hawaii has an open textbook called Human Nutrition. It can be found here: http://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/humannutrition/

You may also want to check out:
https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/19

Our nutrition sciences faculty are looking for an open resource nutrition analysis software option.
All of our introductory courses include a food diary and self-dietary analysis as a term-long project that students report is super valuable,
so the faculty don't want to get rid of the assignment.
The major publishers offer paid options but we're hoping one of you might know of free options for students?

I reached out to our nutrition department chair about this because our program uses a lot of OER and free resources.
Here is her response:
"I use USDA's FoodDataCentral and What's in the Foods You Eat Search Tool.
Food Data Central is the database that nutrient analysis software pulls data from and the
What's in the Foods you Eat is the search tool that has a fairly straightforward user interface.
They are free to use, and USDA FoodData Central data are in the public domain and not copyrighted. CC1.0 Universal (CC01.0).
What the diet analysis programs like NutriCalc, Chronometer, and MyFittness Pal have compared to the search tool and database that I use
is the ability to create reports.
So, I have my students create their own nutrient data tables/reports using the info from the databases and compare
their findings to the recommended amounts found in the Dietary Reference Intake tables available in our nutrition text or
online through the National Institutes of Health.
USDA also has a DRI Calculator for Healthcare Professionals. I have not used it but thought I would share."
You can see more details about our nutrition classes, what's being used, etc. on the Nutrition page of the ZTC at CRC website.
Some of the books being used are available through the college library, but we have faculty who are actively working to create OER to replace those.

Other

Aviation

I'm working with an instructor to find a swap for AVI-101 World of Aviation. From the instructor:
"To give you an idea, we used the book Introduction to Aviation in Fall 2020 that was by author Mabonga.
Here is a link to B&N. What I liked was that it covered a variety of topics
and gave just a little bit of info for each (e.g. History, Regulations, Air Traffic Control, Maintenance, Operations, Meteorology).
What I didn't like was it gave TOO LITTLE info for each (literally 3-4 pages on each chapter).
The simplicity made the text feel as if it was designed for Middle School or Freshman of High School.
I would like something that talks a little about each of these topics but with some good information."

A few of our faculty at the University of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard School of Aviation & Aerospace have participated in our OERs program,
but I don’t know of anyone who has just done an introduction to aviation as a whole.
Profs. Gary Ullrich and Brandon Wilde wrote and published an introductory book on Aviation Safety – it’s available for download from our institutional repository,
the UND Scholarly Commons, at https://commons.und.edu/oers/11/ .
(It’s been heavily used, and they’re working on a new edition, but this is the one we have thus far.)
Another faculty member, Fred Remer, did an Aviation Meteorology course.
I can put you in touch with these folks, if that would help.

Here's the search results for aviation in Skills Commons: http://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=aviation .

But I have to admit that I'm often confused by what I find in this repository,

so you'll probably need to sort through before making any recommendations to the faculty member - I wouldn't send faculty there on their own.

There's some aviation content in OERCommons but again you'd need to vet it for relevance and level:

https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=aviation&f.general_subject=&f.sublevel=&f.alignment_standard=

We have two aviation courses in Oregon using a library ebook as a textbook: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=av%20

Brewery and Fermentation

I’m trying to find resources for a freshman level brewing and fermentation course.
See the standards below.
Any resource that covers even one of these topics would be appreciated.
I’ve already looked at Merlot and OER Commons.
I found a little bit in the OER Commons.

This is a great example of a topic where open access materials
(books and articles which are open but might not have been created with an OER audience in mind) can be a great fit!
A few materials I've found are pulled together below:

Journal Special Issues:
Yeast Biotechnology 3.0: This Special Issue is a continuation of the first and second “Yeast Biotechnology”
Special Issue series of the journal Fermentation (MDPI).
This issue compiles the current state-of-the-art of research and technology in the area of “yeast biotechnology”
and highlights prominent current research directions in the fields of yeast micro- and nanobiotechnology,
brewer’s yeasts and beer fermentation, wine yeasts and wine fermentation, coffee bean fermentation and
new developments in biochemicals production by yeasts.
Microbiology of Fermented Foods and Beverages: This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Microbiology of
Fermented Foods and Beverages that was published in the journal Foods (MDPI).
Brewing and Craft Beer: This Special Issue, Brewing and Craft Beer, comprises nine different works by researchers
from five continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania).
This Special Issue reflects thus a broad perspective on the most important questions that concern the researchers in
different parts of the world.
Monographs
Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning: Fundamentals and Strategies: With a focus on achieving product purity at
low cost, Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning: Fundamentals and Strategies highlights core concepts.
These include process variables for continuous binary distillation columns and the four basic control strategies,
the distillate and bottoms product quality performance objectives, and the tuning of process control loops.
Brewing Technology: In this book, the discussion encompasses leading-edge brewing technology with fermentation using
a non-Saccharomyces starter, healthy uses of spent grain from brewing processes, and an electronic nose for quality control,
but it also includes descriptions of local traditional alcoholic beverages of Korea and Cameroon.
Here are a couple of smaller-scale OER I've found to complement these:
Wine, Beer, and Alcohol (in Microbiology)
Fermented Foods (in Microbiology)
Fermentation (in Microbiology, Kaiser)
Yeast (in Inanimate Life, Briggs)
Open courseware for Harnessing the Biosphere: Natural Products and Biotechnology
(many open access readings and assignments)
Finally, some free-to-access but not open materials that may prove useful:
Biochemical Engineering Problem Sets & activitites (note: adapted from copyrighted text)
Biochemical Engineering Study materials
And, as I'm sure others will point out, your instructors can supplement these materials with paywalled content,
like additional chapter readings or articles, which can still be made available for students at no cost through services like
Course Reserves.
Some of these materials will necessarily be at a higher level, but if the instructor is willing to do some adaptation or pick out
the more introductory content within them, there is a bit to work from!

We have a set of modules addressing fermentation and food (with emphasis on beer) in our chemistry library:
https://commons.libretexts.org/book/chem-306236
We also had communication with our campus Brewery program about making some of their resources OER;
I will poke them again and see if I can get you something straight from the local brewery.

Child Develompment

I am conducting Child Development/ Early Childhood Education course revisions and looking for OER resources to integrate into the course outline.

CSU Channel Islands uses ALL OER for its Child Development major
I suggest you contact the coordinator or program chair: https://education.csuci.edu/programs/early-childhood-studies.htm
Also, there are OER for Child Dev on the cool4ed.org site at: http://cool4ed.org/courseshowcase.html#education

There is an ECE OER/ZTC google group which we have been using as a content repository for a wide variety of ECE courses (over 30)!
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/early-childhood-education-oer-collaboration
We also have an ECE OER/ZTC email list and twice monthly conversations if you would like me to add you to that group

City College of San Francisco teaches Chinese Language Child Development courses.
The faculty in this program are seeking Chinese Language (Mandarin and/or Cantonese) OER Child Development textbooks (full books-- not articles or factsheets). Does anyone know of anything out there?
Alternatively, these faculty are willing to translate a Child Development OER to Chinese-- but they would need some kind of funding (the college can't provide it). Does anyone have leads on a funder that might be able to support this (or ideas of organizations to ask)?

You may find what you are looking for in the Open Textbooks for Hong Kong: http://www.opentextbooks.org.hk/

Would anyone happen to know of any good Child and Youth Care OER?

I recommend and use the College of the Cayon's texts in my Early Childhood courses.
Very good! The link below is their OER textbooks, there is a section dedicated to Early Childhood. This may be a place to start.
https://www.canyons.edu/academics/onlineeducation/ztc/textbooks.php

We have an instructor who recommends the College of the Canyons materials as well.
Child Growth and Development
Child, Family, and Community
Observation and Assessment

We have harvested the nice College of the Canyon's texts and 20 others in our ECE bookshelf:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Early_Childhood_Education

Chinese

We are looking for any resources out there on introductory Chinese. Anything you can send our way would be much appreciated.

Here are some for you:
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages/Chinese
and this one is being harvested right now:
https://human.libretexts.org/Under_Construction/Learning_Chinese_-_A_Foundation_Course_in_Mandarin_I_()

Here's one OER from an Oregon community college:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=chinese

Deaf Culture

I have an instructor looking for OER materials for his Deaf Culture course. Does anyone have any ideas that I can send his way?

Here is what I found using SUNY Geneseo’s Oasis:
https://oasis.geneseo.edu/basic_search.php
(Thanks, Alexis & team!!)
Below is ASL, not Deaf Culture.
http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm#Sign_Language

I don't know what the scope of the course is, but I just read this wonderful article by Leeann Hunter at Washington State University:
The Embodied Classroom: Deaf Gain in Multimodal Composition and Digital Studies< https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-embodied-classroom-deaf-gain-in-multimodal-composition-and-digital-studies/ ? >
According to the "About the Journal" page, it carries a CC BY-NC-SA license.?

Gallaudet University Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center has lots of resources. Many of them are in ASL. Many of them are not OERs, but there are lots of links. Here is the link to the Deaf Culture section: https://www3.gallaudet.edu/clerc-center/info-to-go/deaf-culture.html
The NCCSD is a clearinghouse of projects that were federally funded. https://www.nccsdclearinghouse.org/disability--deaf-studies.html

Design

I’m working with an instructor who is developing a new course on user experience design, design thinking, and prototyping.

I’ve looked at MERLOT, OERCommons, Open Textbook Library, eCampus Ontario, and BCcampus materials and I was wondering if anyone knows of any hidden gems from other repositories?

There's a great title from Kristine Miller at the University of Minnesota on Design Equity: https://open.lib.umn.edu/designequity/ (CC-BY and published with Pressbooks).

The Interaction Design Foundation (a nonprofit from Denmark) also has a pretty outstanding collectionf of open-access resources on the topic: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/overview (lots more on their website as well!)
Finally, Coursera also has a number of 'Design Thinking' courses: https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=design%20thinking . I've engaged with this one from UVA: https://www.coursera.org/learn/uva-darden-design-thinking-innovation#syllabus

Disabilities

I have a faculty member looking for a textbook for a disabilities class. She currently uses Educating Exceptional Children by Kirk. However, this book is very expensive and this faculty person would like an OER alternative. The name of the class is Disabilities: Diagnosis and Interventions and here is the description – “Examines the etiology and symptomology of disabilities, including physical and mental health, modality deficits and language-based learning disabilities. Students becom familiar with legislation, social policies, diagnosis and treatment, as well as appropriate intervention.”

There may not be a single open book which addresses everything you need, but you may be able to combine this book from BC Campus with journal articles from PubMed or DOAJ.
Here's the book: Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=5872a030-f5d9-4ea3-a9d2-696a99c005dc&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Psychiatric/Mental%20Health%20Nursing

I am working with an instructor on an inclusive design course. The focus is on accessibility and universal design for built environments and interior design. Do you know of any collections of resources I could point them toward for this?
I've found many TED Talks, government-released documents on ADA requirements, and open access articles on Universal Design for architecture, but I haven't found any resources intended to be used as teaching materials.
The instructor is especially interested in lecture materials about disabilities (statistics, diagnoses, design interventions etc).

My two gurus for this request are Jutta Treviranus and Jess Mitchell of the Inclusive Design Research Center.

Any recommendations for OER for an Introduction to Disabilities course?
I am finding this difficult to search for online because of the wealth of content about using OER for students with disabilities!
(I already saw the post about the stock photo collection and will be sharing that.)

Colleagues at CUNY School of Professional Studies wrote Introducing Developmental Disability through a Disability Studies Perspective.

Hoping I can ask if anyone has some OERs/open textbooks, or ideas for who I could contact about OER on the following topics (I have done some preliminary digging in the BCcampus collection, and a few other collections, but have not found a lot as yet). I would like Canadian context if possible, but am happy to look at materials that could be adapted.
Inclusive education
Disability studies
Recruitment and selection, and specifically related to this "talent acquisition" and legal considerations

The CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS) created the OER Introducing Developmental Disability Through a Disability Studies Perspective.
In addition, the Journal of Teaching Disability Studies has a CC license.

This might be helpful for part of your OER.

Engineering

At Haiti Open University, we are facing a challenge to setup labs for our engineering students. we are looking for affordable/free solutions in remote, simulated and hands-on labs in civil, electrical and computer engineering. Do you know Colleges/Universities that will allow our students to use their remote labs?

There are several options for free remote computer labs. Consider:

There are many free cloud-based Integrated Development Environments. Start with repl.it.
Amazon AWS Educate offers free compute time on AWS. Free trials on AWS are also available.
Microsoft Imagine offers free compute time on Azure. Free trials on Azure are also available.
Google offers free trials on Google Compute.

German

We have an adjunct faculty member who is looking for materials for his Introduction to German course (beginner II level at a community college). He’s looking for both textbook and ancillary materials, especially relating to grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure. I searched OER Commons, MERLOT, Open Textbook Library, OASIS, and BCCampus Open Ed and have located many (useful) interactive materials, but not much on the textbook side of things.
If anyone has either material type (textbook or ancillary) to share, we would greatly appreciate it!

I'd recommend the University of Texas at Austin's Center for OER and Language Learning https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/german . We just reached out to them to find resources for our Spanish classes and they have been very helpful.

Horses

Any chance that someone has a lead on OER that is related to training, husbandry, and riding of horses? I’m not even sure where I would begin looking for this type of content so any help is appreciated!

Here are some helpful resources for veterinary medicine topics which may include horse-related topics. Not all are OER, but all are free online
https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/vetmed

Two courses at LBCC use library ebooks for their horse courses: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=horse

Information Literacy

Would any of you happen to have a textbook for an Information Literacy class that you could recommend?

Some of our instructional librarians use this one for an LSC150 – 1 cr info lit course - https://textbooks.opensuny.org/the-information-literacy-users-guide-an-open-online-textbook/

Here is our Information Literacy LibGuide:
http://research.lakelandcc.edu/c.php?g=664721&p=4672853

There is also this one from Mike Caulfield - https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/

Language Design

A faculty member asked me about training specifically on language course design. An OER perspective is preferred, but this seems a bit niche so I'd appreciate any leads.

Check out COERLL, the Center for OER for Language Learning, at the University of Texas at Austin. They host conferences and webinars on language instruction, as well as have a bank of great OER and resources.
https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/

Leadership

I am looking for material on organizational leadership. We are currently using a Cengage textbook but are exploring OER options for a leadership experience course. (Introduction to leadership, Research perspectives on leadership, and the Personal side of leadership models of personality, traits, leader behavior, problem-solving styles, etc.). I have looked around a bit so far, but have not located anything that seems to work. I appreciate any information/direction anyone has to share.

LibreTexts has several text entries on organization and leadership:
https://commons.libretexts.org/catalog?search=lead&library=&subject=&location=&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
https://commons.libretexts.org/catalog?search=organizational&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
but when looking at the page level on the socialsci and business libraries, we have >1600 pages with "leadership" keywords (more with organization I bet):
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=leadership&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
https://biz.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=leadership&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
There is a good chance that a simple use of our OER Remixer can build a book that may work for you (with limited editing afterwards).

Medical Office Assistant

Are there institutions that have found OER resources that are no less than two years old for use in a medical office assistant program? Also, if you know of OER resources, do they include exercises and practice work? If so, can you list them? Here are the range of interests our professor has for the topic:
Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies
Mosby’s Front Office Skills for the Medical Assistant
Medical Ethics
Clinical Care Classification
Medical Billing and Coding

I am unaware of any comprehensive resources that are openly licensed on this topic. However, two sites you’ll want to check out are SkillsCommons.org and KnowledgeToWork.com. SkillsCommons is a repository of resources created by TAACCCT grant recipients:
https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=medical+office
and Knowledge to Work is a portal created by Lord Fairfax Community College that catalogs free and low-cost learning materials (including OER, but not exclusively) on a variety of subjects (you can narrow search results by license type). Knowledge to Work has many resources for health information management,
which has some topics that overlap, and we are currently working to add resources for medical office assistants as well:
https://www.knowledgetowork.com/

Mentoring

Our counseling faculty is creating a course on the value/importance of mentoring. This would be for students learning to be mentored. Can anyone recommend OER for this topic?

You may find bits and pieces of what you are looking for in our Counseling and Guidance bookshelf of the LibreTexts SocialSci library:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Counseling_and_Guidance

Hi Sarah, would this be of use to you?
Tutor Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Tutoring Skills by Penny Feltner and James R. Gapinski

Resume/Interview Class

Hi all, I’ve got an instructor who is looking for materials for her resume/interview class. Does anyone have anything?

Saylor Academy has some openly licensed courses on Resume Writing and Interviewing Skills.
PRDV102: Resume Writing
https://learn.saylor.org/course/PRDV102
PRDV103: Interviewing Skills
https://learn.saylor.org/course/PRDV103

Dave Dillon's Blueprint for Success in College and Career has chapters on Resumes and Interviewing (ch. 42 and 43).

We have a counselor who's using content from Counseling 110: Career and Life Planning by College of the Canyons. Unit 5 has content on resumes and interviewing.

World Languages

My faculty colleagues in World Languages are interested in utilizing OER, but they need language learning materials -- really, lab materials, resources that students use to practice the language. We have found open textbook materials, but have not been successful in locating other/ancillary materials. Any suggestions?

COERLL has supplementary resources: https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/materials . The Open Language Resource Center at University of Kansas has language OER, although they may be mostly full curricula: http://olrc.ku.edu/ .

Also, the Boise State Pathways project for World Languages has tons of resources, many created – by students! – specifically for language labs. https://www.boisestate.edu/worldlang/pathways/

COERLL features on our website and gives digital badges to language educators who use, promote, or create OER, and we’d love to feature your language faculty. They can learn more on our Language OER Network page or contact me for more information.

On top of Sarah Sweeney's suggestions, I also would check out LibreTexts' offerings. There are numerous options, and they integrate well into Canvas.

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages

MERLOT has an Editorial Board in World Languages and over 3000 resources. All are categorized by the language, i.e. Spanish, German, etc. Follow this link.

Material Search Results (merlot.org)

We currently have instructors working on 100 and 200 level materials for Spanish. This OER work includes practice and assessments and is built in Canvas. They are currently working and should be ready to share in spring. I'm the OER faculty specialist at our college and I would like to facilitate them sharing their work!
Phil Root

Workplace Experience:

I received a request from a professor in search of resources to help with the creation of a 1-credit course called "The Workplace Experience."
Much of the content to be included in the course is specifically requested by our industry advisors.
To include topics like:

Coming to work on time
Working when you are at work
Following through on tasks at work
Communicating with supervisors
Workplace dress
Personal business at work
Continuous learning at work
Problem solving
Professional attitudes and behavior.
Mobile phone use

Is anyone aware of any resources that address these topics? Essentially, How to Be a Good Employee 101.

World Religions:

I have a Blackboard administrator who is looking for OER for a World Religions course.
Any resources or support materials you may have and are willing to share will be greatly appreciated.

Here is our current collection of Religious Studies books/modules on the LibreTexts Humanities library:
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Religious_Studies
I hope this may help you. Feel free to reach out to us if you want to learn more about how to use these materials to remix your own customized texts.
Cheers, Delmar

One of our faculty will be teaching a Religion course on the “Survey of the New Testament”
and needs assistance in finding appropriate OER materials.
I have given her the “usual suspect” list of where to find resources but this is not my field so I know very little

We don't have an explicit text focusing on the New Testament, but our Religious Studies section of the
LibreTexts Humanities library has content that does overlap with topic:
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Religious_Studies

Try the Open Digital Theological Library, lots of results to sort thru:
https://opendigtheolib.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=New+Testament

We don't have any religious content here at Lumen, however here is some information that might be helpful.

Philosophy

Does anyone know about usable and well-written comprehensive Philosophy resources? A colleague of mine is looking for them, I’m assuming she needs general Philosophy (as opposed to subjects like the Philosophy of…).
Happy to pass along what I'm aware of in the philosophy world--look forward to hearing what others know of, too.

Modern Philosophy
ForAllX - Intro to Logic (a widely-used source, and yay SUNY authors)
Introduction to Philosophy (yay CUNY authors). He has other full text materials on his website, as well.
Introduction to Ethical Studies
An Introduction to Reason
Fundamental Methods of Logic (open access but not openly licensed)

The Rebus Community is currently developing a very comprehensive Introduction to Philosophy text, if your faculty member wants to be involved in writing new content, as well.

And, shameless plug, let's talk about how we at SUNY OER Services can support you and your faculty at Empire! Feel free to contact me directly.

I have one more to add. One of our philosophy professor here at Lansing CC, Dr. Matthew Van Cleave wrote an open textbook "Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking." It has been adopted by a number of faculty from all over and has good reviews so far. It is really an excellent resource and according to Matt, although there are excellent formal logic textbooks, on the one hand, and halfway decent critical thinking textbooks, on the other, there are really no good textbooks that do both well.

Hi Antonia, one more to add to the list:
Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation of Argument
This was developed by a team at Portland Community College.

I worked with a professor over the summer to create this LibGuide as a text-replacement. A couple of the articles are in the library's databases, but most of this is on the Open Web. She had previously been using the text Archetypes of Wisdom (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/941070291), so it was comfortable for her to keep with the same format of following a specific Philosopher to explain the concept that they created or emblematized.
http://nwcc.libguides.com/PHL101OER

Ethics

I have an ethics professor who wants to teach ethics topics to a hospital ethics committee. He is asking for case studies too.

I’m not sure they include case studies, but there are a fair number of courses in the JHSPH Open Courseware that match or relate to these areas. Some other ideas
Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context
Foundations of Health Information Technology (Undergraduate) Course Materials
Sunshine Electronic Health Record Academic Simulation

Professionalism and Leadership

Looking for OER materials for Professionalism and Leadership course for Gen Ed. Any help will be appreciated.

Lots of Leadership materials in MERLOT. Here is the hit list:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=leadership&sort.property=relevance

Punjabi
A faculty member wants to develop an OER course for teaching the Punjabi language. If you happen to know of OER materials for Punjabi, please let me know.

I don’t have any more resources to recommend but you could point the faculty member to COERLL’s guide for creating OER for languages: http://bit.ly/coerll-course .

A BC instructor wrote the open textbook Speaking and Writing Punjabi, found in the BC Open Textbook Collection.

Swahili
I am looking for leads on an OER text for Anatomy and Physiology in Spanish and/or Swahili. So far I have found a few Spanish language resources via Merlot. Any additional ideas would be appreciated.

Two ideas for resources in Swahili:
1. Regarding Swahili which is spoken in Kenya (among other places), there is this UNESCO report on the state of OER in Kenya. It might contain some leads of where to look further. I know it's a bit round-about but sometimes that's what you've got to do. https://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214744.pdf
2. https://oerafrica.org

Typography for Graphic Design
I have a professor who is looking for an introduction to Typography for our Graphic Design emphasis students. The course has to do with a bit of history of letters and language, various type classifications, type anatomy and so on. If anyone knows of OER that could fit this topic, please share!

Salt Lake CC has an intro course and BC Campus has some good materials for this.
https://utah-primoprod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=digcoll_slc_27photo_10295&context=L&vid=MWDL
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=45f9a8a1-5901-4b32-87ae-b4f5c2aa99ef&contributor&keyword&subject
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8751756a-772c-4232-bd7e-89f87f9d71b9&contributor&keyword&subject
The Digital Public Library of America has some really rich public domain collections around the history and structure. The following sites do as well.
https://museumofprinting.org/blog/

It's not an OER, but Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style and Johanna Drucker's The Alphabetic Labyrinth are two of the gold standards in the field. Bringhurst's book has been through 4 editions now, and it appears that there are several used copies of the 3rd edition available for well under $10 (cost + shipping), which is quite affordable for a print text (https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0881792063/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used). Used copies of Drucker's book also appear abundant and similarly priced: https://www.amazon.com/Alphabetic-Labyrinth-Letters-History-Imagination/dp/0500016089

If they're specifically looking for openly licensed work, Richard Rutter made an openly licensed web-centered riff on Bringhurst's text that's available here: http://webtypography.net/toc/ and on GitHub. This later became the seed of his own (all rights reserved) handbook on web typography.

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Looking for materials about Virtual Reality VR or Augmeted Reality AR
in education in general.
Something very interesting for our university is focus on Vocational training.

As far as the second part of your request you might consider Skills Commons, a sister organization of MERLOT. It can be found here:
https://www.skillscommons.org/
Skills Commons contains resources for workforce development.

Hello, CVTC created 150 open source augmented reality simulation and serious games for health care students as part of the ARISE project, funded by a Dept of Labor TAACCCT IV grant. Teaching plans for the scenarios can be found on Skills Commons at http://support.skillscommons.org/showcases/open-courseware/healthcare/augment-reality/
We will also be developing 25 open source VR scenarios as part of the Open RN grant funded by the Dept of Education. To read more about this project go to www.cvtc.edu/OpenRN

Water Management Structures

I have an instructor looking to replace the current lab manual for her Water Management Structures course in the College of Engineering. The course has been using a book that was written by an instructor in the department who retired almost 30 years ago. The students currently pay $65 for it.
Below are the learning outcomes. If anyone has a text or some resources that might do the trick, please let me know.
As a result of taking this course, the student should:

Have a basic understanding of the principles applicable to the design of hydraulic structures;
Be able to apply the three basic equations governing fluid flow (continuity, energy and momentum equations) and other fluid flow principles to hydraulic structure design;
Understand the uses, applications and analysis procedures of various types of hydraulic structure, including dams and spillways, and irrigation, drainage and related structures;
Be able to prepare detailed design notes that are neat, complete, and properly referenced;
Be familiar with the materials that may be used in the design and construction of hydraulic structures;
Develop an understanding of various aspects of water resources engineering, particularly with respect to water control;
Be aware of the use and application of physical hydraulic models in the development of hydraulic structure design criteria; and
Have an understanding of dam safety and other aspects of safety associated with hydraulic structures as well of environmental regulations pertaining to work in waterbodies.

At College of the Canyons, our program in Water Systems Technology has produced Open Textbooks for all 11 of their courses. Some of the content might be helpful for the course you’re looking for.
You can find a list of our open textbooks at College of the Canyons ZTC; scroll down to the end until you find Water Technology. The books on the website are published as PDFs; let me know if you’d like the Word version.

World Health Problems

I’m working with an instructor to find open resources for a World Health Problems course.
The course covers the major causes of morbidity and mortality around the world. Topics include water availability, sanitation, malnutrition, mental health and addiction, AIDS, and other diseases. The health problems of developed countries are compared and contrasted with those of developing countries, along with the methodologies used by national and international agencies to solve them.

You might be able to get some data points from this public domain site:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

The World Health Organization CC licenses its publications via its institutional repository, and you can search or browse by subject.
http://apps.who.int/iris/browse?type=mesh

World Religions

Thanks for previous recommendations related to Platforms and Biology. Today, I'm reaching out for any open textbooks focused on World Religions - or associated OER. While we are hoping for textbooks primarily focused on world religions I am aware that other disciplines (Anthro) may have relevant content and welcome those suggestions too. The instructor I am working with is building a capstone course that aims to address contemporary faith traditions from the aspect of contemplative practices and interfaith dialogue. Additionally, we are hoping to identify other resources (archival), that allow students to view primary source documents and their translations. I've already identified one such site - The Internet Sacred Text Archive, and would love any leads in that vein.

The Sinai Codex is the earliest (4th Cent CE) complete manuscript of the New Testament. It is online here: http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/
While the site is not truly Open, the copyright page states that the electronic version is freely available for personal and educational use. The Greek text itself is public domain, of course - the authors have been dead well over 70 years.

I'm glad to see that there will be more OER available for this area soon. In Oregon faculty have made use of library ebooks in the meantime (not open or free, but more affordable for students). The following are known to be in use:
Peters, F. (1994). Reader on Classical Islam. Princeton University Press.
Abdel, H. M. A. (2005). The Qurʼan. New York: Oxford University Press.
Understanding the Religions of the World: An Introduction by Will Deming. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
World Religions Reference Library
Riggs, T., Thomson Gale, & Gale Group. (2006). Worldmark encyclopedia of religious practices (Gale virtual reference library). Detroit, Mich.: Thomson Gale. Jackson, R. (2014).
The God of Philosophy An Introduction to Philosophy of Religion. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.
Yandell, Keith E, & Yandell, Keith E. (2002). Philosophy of Religion A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.
We also have one PHL course using Philosophy of Religion by Philip A. Pecorino, Ph.D., which is licensed CC-BY-NC-ND.

A colleague of mine is looking for OER for her “World Religions” course. Please post any suggestions here. Thank you!

This is what I know of that's in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=religi
Most are using library resources as course materials.

Environmental Ethics

A Philosophy faculty member on my campus is looking to move to all openly-licensed materials in her Environmental Ethics course. Does anyone know of an existing OER textbook in this area, or one that's in the works? Of course, she and I can work together to curate a collection of resources. If so, any thoughts on some places to start?

We have an Environmental Science class called “Human Impact on the Environment”, and some of the themes run parallel to your course description. Although, it’s not a philosophy course, so the resources may not be perfectly aligned, our instructor is using selections from the following two open textbooks, which may be helpful for your needs:
1. Zehnder, Caralyn et. al. "Introduction to Environmental Science" (2016). Biological Sciences Open Textbooks. Book 4. http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/biology-textbooks/4
2. Theis, Tom and Tomkin Johnathan. "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation" https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=96

Study Skills

Has anyone come across good OER for a college study / learning skills course? I’m doing some research for our Learning and Academic Resources department.

There is the College Success book from the Open Textbook Library - http://open.lib.umn.edu/collegesuccess/
PLUS … our university has done two adapted versions of the book:
University Success - http://openpress.usask.ca/universitysuccess2ndedition/
Strategies for Academic Success - http://openpress.usask.ca/strategiesforacademicsuccess/

Check out the student success category in the open textbook library: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx?subjectAreaId=10
I also recommend Dave Dillon's textbook, still in beta: https://press.rebus.community/blueprint2/

San Bernardino Valley College has compiled an excellent collection of College Success OER:
https://www.valleycollege.edu/open-education-resources/faculty/counseling.php

Here's an open textbook put together by counseling faculty at College of the Canyons: student success.

Our college success instructor found this open resource from UNC Chapel Hill and just loves it: http://learningcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/

Physical Education

We are looking for open content for our Foundations of Sport Management course. Course description is below. Is anyone aware of anything?

I have not had much success finding a foundations text for sport management. I've found bits and pieces, but no comprehensive course or text. I have a small sports management section in our LibGuide, here: http://library.cscc.edu/oer/bysubject

I’ve been incredibly blessed with many requests for OER materials in a variety of courses! Most of which I have been able to find many resources however I could use some direction on Fitness Walking.

Found on MERLOT:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=1375208

Adaptive Physical Education

PE 201 - Introduction to Laboratory Techniques in Adapted Physical Education
Course Description – This course provides an introduction to Adapted Physical Education with an orientation to specific disabilities. Exercise theory and techniques will be discussed and wheelchair transfers will be practiced. Consequences of disuse syndrome and fitness benefits of exercise will also be discussed. Students will gain practical experience working with students with disabilities who are enrolled in the Adapted Physical Education classes. Students interested in pursuing careers in physical education, kinesiology, physical therapy, and nursing will find this course valuable.

Have you thought about contacting one of the associations and asking for permissions to use their information and/or requesting information?
Here are a few options if that interests you. There may be some grant programs for developing this type of curriculum for OER too so that it is more accessible.
https://www.shapeamerica.org/standards/adapted/default.aspx?hkey=8cedd80e-1b61-4af7-819e-c5f33b2da9de
https://apens.org/certification.html
https://www.pecentral.org/adapted/adaptedsites.html
https://www.cde.state.co.us/cdesped/ape
There may be any number of options out there. Additionally most government websites will have their information in the public domain, so if there is anything out there that regulates/educates for this under the government they may have some additional information too.

Exercise Science

An Exercise Science faculty member is looking for resources he describes as "applied anatomy." Course descriptions:
EXS 321: Study of the musculoskeletal structure of the living human body; bones and their specific articulations; segments and their movements; muscles and their attachments and actions. Special emphasis is placed on musculoskeletal analysis of basic exercise and movement patterns.
EXS 322: Integration of skeletal and neuromuscular anatomy with mechanical principles of human motion. Analysis of sports skills for performance improvement.
These are my suggestions, but I'm not certain that they cover the "applied" need:
- OpenStax A&P
- Human Anatomy and Physiology Preparatory Course
Any other recommendations to share?

I have been working with a faculty on this same thing. He is using a combination of the course texts you linked below but struggling with the applied piece as well. He is using the text and working on a lab manual. He did require his students to purchase the Visible Body software ($22 per student). While this is not an OER, it does reduce costs. Because its applications cover a host of courses, I am working on a statewide license for it to bring that cost to students to $0.

I am very interested in seeing more application development for products like this with open licenses. Especially in the sciences, I believe there is a need to supplement texts in a more applied way.

Sports Officiating

I'm working on a Z-Degree project via an NDUS Fellowship Grant here in North Dakota. I've been digging up substitutes for faculty to consider, and I've run into a few topics that appear to not have any obvious OER pieces.

You might find useful content related to sports officiating in The Politics of Sports by Anna Carroll and Eleanor Wakefield: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/politicsofsports/

Sports and Society

I have a faculty member teaching a Sports & Society course and is looking for an OER. Please let me know if anyone has resources to share. Thank you!
Course Description
Examines the role of sport in historical and modern societies. This course investigates the social, political, and economic influences of sport as well as the impact of various gender, ethnic, and cultural groups. While this course places an emphasis on the effects in US society, students will explore how sport influences and shapes attitudes among various societies worldwide.
SLOs
Performance- Analyze the role of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture in the context of sport and as it relates to society
Knowledge – Identify social theories in the study of sport and society, from the past to present.
Theory – Explain historical and contemporary events, trends, and contributions in sports, and analyze their effect on social, political, and economic change.

This one might be relevant for you: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/politicsofsports/

OpenStax's free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed Introduction to Anthropology textbook features a chapter titled "Art, Music, and Sport," providing an
anthropological view of sports throughout time.
You can access OpenStax's entire library of online OER textbooks here. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Yoga

An instructor is looking for an OER to replace a commercial textbook for yoga classes. Course topics include:
Intro to Yoga practice
Who is yoga for ?
Advantages of beginning w/ a face to face class vs an online class
Pranayama or breathing as a tool
Psychological benefits
Emotional benefits (e.g. decrease anxiety / PTSD / depression)
Advantages of stretching / strengthening

A quick search in the OTL and OER Commons didn't turn up results. Any help?
I have a faculty member who pulls together some of the materials on the Open Research Library.
She combines this with primary documents about the practice found on Hathi Trust. Merlot's course was too basic for her course level but might suit your faculty.

Hi all, thanks for the suggestions - the instructor is going to be able to switch away from the commercial textbook previously assigned :) Here's the roundup of responses I received (not all openly licensed):
- https://vikasayoga.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/1-Foundation-TT-an-Introdution-to-Yoga.pdf
- Concepts of Fitness and Wellness text by Flynn, Jellum, et al includes a chapter on flexibility: https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/health-textbooks/4/
- Yoga themed writing textbook: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/yoga-minds-writing-bodies-contemplative-writing-pedagogy
- NCSU Alt Textbook funded a Yoga text a few years back: https://yoga.dasa.ncsu.edu/
- https://openresearchlibrary.org/search-results/g%3Dyoga
- https://contentbuilder.merlot.org/toolkit/html/stitch.php?s=15901665404347

UTA offered a yoga MOOC a couple of years ago. I haven’t looked into the licensing, but here’s the link:
https://www.edx.org/course/the-science-and-practice-of-yoga

Physics

Astronomy

Our astronomy prof was impressed by the OpenStax text. Does anyone already have a curated collection of supporting materials - quiz pools, videos, interactives?
There are three different places you can check for resources:

On the Astronomy book page, scroll down to “Instructor Resources” https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy .
We have free Powerpoint slides, an Instructor Answer Guide, other sequencing of the course, etc. To gain access to these, the professor will need a faculty-verified account. They can apply here: https://accounts.openstax.org/login?client_id=29a93813f3a9d25a8a67d903c679594b63f43bdf8349470999b8c334439c7f55 Note: It can take up to 3 days, as we do manually verify each faculty member. Once approved, the professor can log-in and download those resources.
Below “Instructor Resources” on the page above, there are “Partner Resources” that list the homework, courseware, clicker, etc. providers who provide services around the book for a small fee (most are $40 or less)
There are also a lot of additional free instructor resources in the OER Commons Hub for the book, including labs and activities. They can get to the hub by clicking on “Community Resources” on the main book page. There’s a wide variety of additional resources faculty who use the book have donated back to OpenStax that are listed on this page. Once the professor creates an account and joins the community, the professor will also be able to download any of these that they’d like.
You may also want to check out the list of supporting materials that were identified through the work of a PCC instructor working with Distance Education to make an online course more accessible.
This is the page from the conference session:
https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/conference-presentations/see-stars-making-astronomy-classes-accessible
This is the link to the handout with resources:
https://www.qualitymatters.org/sites/default/files/presentations/seeingstars_resources_sorense

See Stars: Making Astronomy Classes Accessible to Visually ...
www.qualitymatters.org
Physics instructor has worked for a full year with Distance Education's Accessibility team, to make his NASA grant funded, online Astronomy courses (PHY 121, 122 and

This is the link to the handout with resources:
https://www.qualitymatters.org/sites/default/files/presentations/seeingstars_resources_sorensen.docx

We are looking for OER materials for astronomy lecture and lab. Any and all input is appreciated!

Andrew Fraknoi from Foothill College along with others wrote an OpenStax one: https://openstax.org/details/books/astronomy

We use the Openstax book here as well. Also, one of the instructors has for several years had students in the course conducting undergraduate research. The work is then shared openly on this site:
https://sites.usask.ca/astr104/

Our Introduction to Astronomy OER course is up in Lumen Learning – made possible by the Achieving the Dream OER grant:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/catalog/achievingthedream

I am working with an astronomy instructor who is teaching a class on Ancient Astronomy essentially. It is a mixture of ethnology and archaeology mixed with astronomy.
I am having trouble finding OER materials for Ancient Hawaiian Astronomy. Ancient probably isn’t the right word, maybe historical or cultural. Regardless we are trying to find info on native Hawaiians astronomical practices and lunar calendar.
We are also trying to be DEI conscious and hopefully have the material created by someone from the Hawaiian culture.
I know this is a stretch, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

While I do not expect you will find much openly-licensed content, there are likely to be freely accessible resources shared by various groups at the University of Hawai'i.
I would reach out to the folx at the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and the UH Institute for Astronomy.
There is a research guide for astronomy available through our library, but much of the content is Western/contemporary and likely isn't what you need.
Something to also consider is inclusion of content related to wayfinding, perhaps by contacting the Polynesian Voyaging Society, known throughout the world for the voyages of the Hokule'a.
“Most of the materials I've seen have been hands-on activities led by staff at 'Imiloa or PVS (Polynesian Voyaging Society). At Manoa, there is a module on wayfinding developed by CRDG at the College of Education, available at
https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/physical/navigation-and-transportation/wayfinding-and-navigation
Hawaiian Studies has a whole class on this, HWST281, but I don't see materials for it online anywhere.”
Astronomy and calendar:
“I would say the best, most recent, and complete example of the state-of-the-art in archaeo-astronomy in Hawaii is in this volume:
Heiau, ‘Aina, Lani: The Hawaiian Temple System in Ancient Kahikinui and Kaupo, Maui by Patrick V. Kirch and Clive Ruggles.
The other resources I can recommend are the Polynesian Voyaging Society who obviously are focused on the navigational side of astronomy, and the 19th century Hawaiian historians who described the calendar, David Malo is a good one to start with. This source let's you search, here is his list of lunar months:
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/philamer/aja1759.0001.001/69?rgn=full+text;view=image;q1=lunar ”

Electricity and Magnetism
I’m looking for some OER for a 1st year physics course for a course on electricity and magnetism, with a heavy emphasis on circuits for engineering students.

Try the new open stax text on the subject - I also have materials that I can share
Hi Heather, a few OER that are in use in Oregon community colleges:

Basic Electronics 1: DC Circuit Analysis playlist
All About Circuits, Vol.1: Direct Current (DC)
LBCC in-house videos

Just ran across this while reading Choice reviews. I think it requires a login that you get from the book. Not sure.

53-1330QA43MARC

Povey, Thomas. Professor Povey's perplexing problems: pre-university physics and maths puzzles with solutions. Oneworld, 2015. 374p ISBN 9781780747750pbk, $26.99

[CC] Povey (engineering, Univ. of Oxford, UK) collects his favorite "pre-university" problems in math and physics and presents them informally in a welcoming style. Povey writes that the problems are "devised to encourage curiosity and playfulness." (Yes, they do.) He asserts that working through the problems will better prepare precocious students for university study. (Yes, they will.) For Povey, the desired outcome is confidence in how to reason through problems. Topics include geometry, statics and dynamics, electricity, gravity, optics, heat, buoyancy, estimation, kinematics, and circular, harmonic, and perpetual motion. Povey created many of the problems himself; others were gathered from colleagues or are well-known classic problems. He uses a ranking system of one star for universally approachable to four stars for extremely challenging. Fictional stories introduce some problems, and for many problems, the author offers useful context—how he was introduced to the problem and why it is important and interesting. Footnotes provide even more background concerning history and deeper connections to math and physics. Solutions, which follow each question, are complete and well reasoned, but much can be learned from Povey’s comments, independent of the solutions. Bonus problems and a puzzle forum are on a companion website, Perplexing Problems: Bringing Maths & Physics to Life(http://perplexingproblems.com). Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates; students in two-year programs; researchers/faculty; general readers.

--M. Mounts, Dartmouth College

OpenStax's College Physics book has lots of extras that might be useful.

Lab Resources
We’re looking for some Physics labs to complete our 2 Physics OER courses: General Physics I and II.

Phet has some great simulations as well as OER faculty resources.
https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics

Psychology/Sociology

I have a meeting planned with our psychology faculty to discuss OER. They are interested in what others in their field have used. If you teach psychology & use an OER textbook, would you be willing to share the source & your experience (+/-) with me?

You and your colleagues might be interested in our Psychology Google Group. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/coep-psych
Hi Katie, you could also check out Rajiv's great video overview: https://youtu.be/YAtFZ_A6YDg

Abnormal Psychology/ Child Development

Does anyone know of anyone working on an OER for Abnormal Psych or Child Development? I found one in CCCOER for Abnormal, but the psych faculty felt it was very out of date?
Lumen Learning - Candela has a lifespan developmental psychology course which covers child development.
Cynthia Lofaso at Central Virginia Community College is my go-to PSY source; she's at lof...@cvcc.vccs.edu .

Noba has a lot of resources that you could put together to create an Abnormal Psychology text. For a Child Development text you could use the Lumen one that Mark referenced, and combine it with Noba resources. I haven’t yet found complete texts for either of these courses, but I will be looking to create or update an Abnormal Psych OER in the near future.

I am currently working with the Lifespan Development text through Lumen. It has good information but needs a little work in formatting.

We have a couple faculty members using a combination of open and licensed library materials for Abnormal Psych. We're using libguides as the base platform. Here's a link: http://nmc.libguides.com/psy250mccord And here's a link to a document that lists some of the resources that we use for multiple topics.

You might also want to take a look at Dr. Caleb Lack's Abnormal Psychology: An e-text. It is in a wiki format.

The Abnormal Psych text looks really thorough, but I'm troubled by this statement in the footer:

Contributions to http://abnormalpsych.wikispaces.com/ are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Non-Commercial 3.0 License. Portions not contributed by visitors are Copyright 2016 Tangient LLC.

There are no indications I can see in a quick scan of the text of which portions were contributed and which portions were not contributed. That makes the resource completely unusable. Someone should reach out to them and ask them to clarify what's what on their site.
Just a quick update for anyone following this discussion:

We have modified our libguide for abnormal psychology to share with the OER community. The link to use is http://nmc.libguides.com/abnormalpsych ; this version of the guide has been stripped of all licensed library materials. It's also listed in the OER Commons now.

I plan on re-writing my Abnormal and Human Development as well as my Positive Psych using the NOBA modules.
My Positive, General, and Honors Psych are all OER ...
I use the OpenStax Psychology text for General and Positive and the OpenStax Psychology and a Research in Psychology textbook from BCCampus for my Honors Psych...
Would love to visit with you!

We helped an instructor develop materials for an abnormal psych course using a libguide. He's using a combination of his own content, open materials (NOBA is great!), links to free (but not necessarily openly licensed) content on the web, and library materials (licensed ebooks/articles). Here's a version of the guide which has been stripped of all of our library links.

We have two instructors teaching Abnormal Psych using a libguide with links to variously-licensed materials. Feel free to copy!
http://nmc.libguides.com/psy250blackford/welcome

One of our adjunct instructors created an abnormal psych book using Noba’s resources: http://nobaproject.com/textbooks/new-textbook-6715f9a7-4a72-49c3-934a-9edab58fe397

My colleague in the Psychology department is looking for OER content specific to Child Psychology, preferably resources that aren’t part of a Developmental survey course.

I don't have specifically what you are looking for, but I recently searched this topic for a faculty member who was interested in Child Development and Lifespan Development, and found the below - my suggestion would be to pull out the Child Development sections in the CC BY course below and perhaps add other elements for a hybrid course?--If you can't find any others specific to Child Psychology only. Just a thought.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/540
And then a couple weeks later:
I found this, but it is an archived version not currently updated so links may go out of date. Also, once the link to the course opens, if I click on a YouTube video,the navigation buttons disappear and I don't know how to get back. The Final Exam link also does not work. However, if you wanted to incorporate some of the content, you could easily do so as it has a CC BY license.
Lifespan Development - The Saylor Foundation:
https://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/items/3ac07923-4012-4b98-9609-a0dfabb0c655/1/

I have a psychology faculty that is looking for an OER textbook to use in place of the Abnormal Psychology by Comer textbook.

Please see this one from the U of S - https://openpress.usask.ca/abnormalpsychology/

That's funny, I was just searching on this topic. I found an open textbook: https://opentext.wsu.edu/abnormal-psych/ . It seems that you could also keyword search specific terms in https://nobaproject.com/ to build a custom textbook out of modules.

Does anyone have some leads on OERs for a Child and Family Development Program?

There are some great options available at College of the Canyons ZTC Textbooks repository for Child and Family development either in their Early Childhood Education section or the Sociology section.

Also see the ASCCC-OERI's Child Development & ECE materials

Addiction Studies

We are looking for OER materials for an online Addictions program we are creating. We have done the usual searches and am coming up empty so I am reaching out to the group to see if anyone has any other leads.

I checked with my friend and colleague Rob Morrison who is the executive director of the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) and he suggested you may want to reach out to Laurie Krom kroml@umkc.edu Laurie runs the coordinating office of the Addiction Technology Transfer Centers http://www.attcnetwork.org/about/about.aspx
I noted they have educational resources on the site including some pre-service materials.

I need recommendations for sources that cover the topic of drug addiction and the brain. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Maybe there is something helpful in the Noba Project? http://nobaproject.com/

I am fond of the NIH site on Drug Abuse. Lots of great information about each type of drug and the information for each is downloadable as a pdf.

I have a professor who teaches an addiction course using the eBook from the library below. It is out of print and he is good with the text, but he supplements the areas of the books that discuss diagnosing addiction according to old DSM 4 rules. He does not want the students to buy an $85 DSM 5 for one chapter, we do not have graduate programs, and getting the DSM 5 database seems too pricey for us, about $5,000/year. APA claims to be the only providers of DSM 5 for unlimited user access. I checked the CCC and they do not offer the DSM 5 as a coursepack or individual licensing, etc. Any ideas? Any others using a book for addiction disorders that makes a claim that all addiction results from a similar process (this has something to do with the new DSM 5 rules)? I tried to tell him to investigate OER for a replacement and he did not seem inclined. He is an adjunct and has already told the publisher he is not interested in rewriting the text.

While you are not going to find an openly licensed version of the DSM, it is quite easy to find information on DSM diagnostic criteria that is freely available.
Even APA provides a lot of information that is freely available.
Instead of just reviewing the criteria, students could be referred to the rationale for the latest DSM criteria in this
freely available - yet copyrighted - article - DSM-5 Criteria for Substance Use Disorders: Recommendations and Rationale.
NIDA offers a wide range of resources - and even print copies are often be available for free.
https://www.drugabuse.gov/nida-publications
The article referenced above does a good job of explaining the changes made in DSM 5 - with the most notable one being the movement away from
abuse Vs dependence. The notion that the same brain mechanisms underly all addictive behaviors is an old one.

I wonder if the faculty member could take advantage of the guidance in the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Open Educational Resources
in order to apply his "fair use rights" to include the relevant DSM V content in his course? Or really, just fair use in general, without it being an insert in an OER?

Michelle, and anyone else who is looking for OER on this, we have a new OER for Introduction to Addictions, https://cod.pressbooks.pub/addiction/

Hi Alexis, A quick search of the Pressbooks Directory turns up a few results (I haven't looked at them):
https://pressbooks.directory/?q=%22addiction%22
Turned up this from College of Du Page looks promising:
https://cod.pressbooks.pub/addiction/
Which has a chapter which appears to cover DSM5 rules:
https://cod.pressbooks.pub/addiction/chapter/chapter-six/

I have a faculty member looking for an OER for Ethics and Legal Standards in Addiction Counseling.
I haven't been able to find anything, and would love to hear whether this community has suggestions.

You might find relevant content in a few OER that our research consultant, Michaela Willi Hooper, found:
Theories and Biological Basis of Addiction (CC BY-NC 4.0). See especially 1.2, 2.3, 6, 7.
Assessment & Treatment of Substance Use Disorders in Foundations of Addiction Studies (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Addressing the Drug Problem and Reducing Drug Use in Drugs, Health, and Behavior (CC BY-NC-SA)

Be careful of the last one on this list.
It appears to have non-open content copied from the University of Utah with no clear permissions granted
https://psu.pb.unizin.org/bbh143/chapter/drug-delivery-methods/
I may be wrong and permission may have been granted, but it is important to make sure we don't propagate
content that may not be in compliance with its license(s).

African American Studies

I have been search for and not finding anything to help our Black Studies faculty to replace From Slavery to Freedom for U.S. History Black Perspectives. Is anyone working on OER for Black Studies?
This is not a full textbook suggestion, but are you familiar with this resource?
https://www.zinnedproject.org/

There are a few textbooks in the MERLOT African American topic, and some other resources that might be of interest:
Merlot African American Resources

Here’s a resource of African American Literature that may be of interest - https://aas267.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

One of our instructor’s is adopting portions of African American History originally hosted by Lumen and now available through Libretexts

My Sociology faculty are having challenges finding adequate OER sources for SOC 1010 (intro to soc),
as well as for HST 1510/1530 (African-American History).
Sadly, the bulk of OER History and Sociology sources provide very superficial coverage of issues of race and racial/social justice.
Anyone know of resources that might be more comprehensive in their addressing of these issues?
Happy holidays to all, and many thanks for all of the contributions everyone makes to the greater success of our students through your suggestions and references
to resources through this listserve.

Under the major category of Humanities, MERLOT has a category of Africana or African American or Black Studies (395).
The number in paratheses indicates the number of resources. They may not all be appropriate for what your colleague wants, but I'm sure they will find something.
Material Search Results (merlot.org)
They can also use the tab near the top of the page for MERLOT's Smart Search and view resources from a lot of other libraries.

For the latter class, this might be a good option: Slavery to Liberation: The African American Experience - https://encompass.eku.edu/ekuopen/1/
This is perhaps more interdisciplinary than exclusively sociological but may also be relevant for your first inquiry:
What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30022--

You may find a bit in our new Commons cataloging system:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=sociology&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=african&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
And OERI built a Sociology book in LibreTexts on "Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach"
https://oeri.commons.libretexts.org/book/socialsci-43241
Naturally, these are all customizable you can remix content easily from book to book to build a new customized book within LibreTexts.

A college in Oregon is using African American History by Christopher Collins, Skyline College:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PIb3jxGqk16I-PNYIFeA2l6WhlM1ilBw/view

Aging (Sociology)

Looking for materials and/or sample canvas shell for Sociology of Aging. here are the representative texts currently being used:
Robert N. Butler, MD (2008). The Longevity Revolution: The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
Corey M. Abramson (2015). The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years
J. Kevin Eckert, Carder, Morgan, Frankowski, and Roth (2009). Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home.

Here is what I know to be in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=%20aging
Most are using library resources as course materials because of a lack of open content.

Caribbean Society

I am new to the list and to an OER-related position at Hostos Community College (CUNY). I am currently helping a faculty member identify open materials for a course on Caribbean Society. Topics covered include:

*   pre-columbian/indigenous Caribbean
*   slavery/transatlantic trade
*   plantation economy/sugar cane
*   food and identity
*   Caribbean music
*   Caribbean religions (santeria/voudou)
*   Caribbean diasporas

In response to Vanessa at Hostos: Here are some resources I gathered for a similar project to yours a while ago: There's already some bad links too, sorry.
Please let me know if you find other/better resources as this has been a tough subject to convert to OER at both WCC and QCC where I work. Good Luck!

BOOKS

1956 - The Negro in Brazilian literature

2001 - The Archaeology of Traditions: Agency and History Before and After Columbus 8

2008 - Poems at the edge of differences - mothering in new English

2010 - Hispanic Americans

2010 - Indians and Mestizos in the "Lettered City" : Reshaping Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Political Culture in Colonial Peru

2011 - Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon

2012 - American Creoles : The Francophone Caribbean and the American South

2012 - Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest

2013 - Latining America : Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies

2013 - In Search of the Amazon - Brazil, the United States and the Nature of a Region

2016 – Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica

2016 - We Dream Together : Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom

2017 - Antología Abierta de Literatura Hispana & this Libguide on Spanish Literature

2017 - Native Peoples of North America

2017 - Frontiers on the Caribbean

COURSES

Most MIT Open Courses should not be considered OER, since many use traditional textbooks and some do not allow institutions to copy or share material. But, the lecture notes and links can be very useful for course building, syllabus wording, images, instructional design, module organization and coming up with (or creatively borrowing) ideas for essay prompts, multiple choice exams, and other assessments:

2004 - The Conquest of America & The Conquest of America Lecture Notes

2005 - Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature

2006 - Introduction to Latin American Studies & Lecture Notes

2005 - Modern Latin America, 1808-Present: Revolution, Dictatorship, Democracy

2005 - Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature

To demonstrate how complex MIT can be: here is a presentation, you may use but must cite it correctly based on their terms and interpretation of creative commons explained here. Does this make sense?

IMAGES & MULTIMEDIA

2016 - Making their way: Views of Grassroots Development in Latin America and the Caribbean Inter-American Foundation - Photographs by Miguel Sayago

Search for images at the World Digital Library and New York Public library digital collection (be sure to check the box next to "public domain" as shown below.)

Cognition

Community Mental Health

We are looking for OER texts for an introductory course in our Human Services degree. The course is “Introduction to Community Mental Health” and covers
“….the work of social service agencies and the roles of human services workers. The nature of helping relationships including attitudes, skills and knowledge required, value conflicts and dilemmas in the field will be explored. The organization and delivery of services offered to individuals, families and the community will be discussed. Care of specific populations such as children, the aging, and those with substance abuse, mental illness, and developmental disabilities in a multicultural society will be highlighted. This course will also explore the different methods, careers, and job opportunities in the various helping professions, and the goals of the human service program in particular”
We’ve found “Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness” and “Instruction in Functional Assessment” as well as some introductory Psych and Soc texts.
Any leads in this area would be very much appreciated.

This past summer, I did a "quick scan" for potential OER for the Community Health courses in our Human Services department and collected potential resources in a Google doc, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oOuw5fqzLkF7XcfBXLvFR4hpwO5o34Y-F8VjNGy2K7I/edit?usp=sharing . I didn't find one perfect source/text, but perhaps there might be something useful in there for leads?

Counseling

I'm inquiring on behalf of a counselor who is looking for an alternative to the Cengage textbook On Course: Strategies for creating success in college and in life by Skip Downing (2017). https://citruslibrary.on.worldcat.org/oclc/914290441
for our COUN 159 course: On Course to Success

I compiled a list of OER for this type of course: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1n3WAI-efWzrQfkfXLY-2nJ9P2lAXM_d78Eg4g9uQuvI
I especially recommend Dave's remix!

We’re on schedule for an expected official release of the three Blueprint for Success OER this Summer.
As they are currently being piloted in a beta version this semester, only the HTML version is publicly available, but PDF (print and digital), XML, MOBI, EPUB formats will be available this Summer.
You can access the HTML versions here:
1. Blueprint for Success in College and Career – https://press.rebus.community/blueprint2/
2. Blueprint for Success in College: Career Decision Making – https://press.rebus.community/blueprint3/
3. Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies – https://press.rebus.community/blueprint1

Criminal Behavior Psychology

An instructor in our Psychology Department is interested in OER for her course on psychology of criminal behaviour. Does anyone know of any resources?

Behaviour, Development and Evolution https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0097
Patrick Bateson Open Book Publishers 2017
Chapter 7. Deviance, Crime, and Social Control from Introduction to Sociology – 1st Canadian ed. BC Open Textbooks
https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontosociology/chapter/chapter7-deviance-crime-and-social-control/
Bookboon.com Policing Cyber Crime by Petter Gottschalk
http://bookboon.com/en/policing-cyber-crime-ebook
Terror Crime Prevention with Communities
Basia Spalek
https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/terror-crime-prevention-with-communities/
Collaborating Against Child Abuse
Exploring the Nordic Barnahus Model
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-58388-4

Death and Dying

Does anyone have a Sociology Death and Dying OER?

Here are 9 results from MERLOT:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)

Here's the rundown of the resources recommended to me/us.
1) from Manelle Wertzberger in Gettysburg: use my library's eBook collection [which will only work if you have access,
like the other resources I mentioned in our meeting.]
2) from Jonas Lamb in Alaska:
"Here's a guide I created with a few additional OER to consider and some library ebooks that your institution may have access to as well,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y2dvOR6Od9qc_5MJHQBMJcnMDkNuWunSMSLco14Z3zw/edit?usp=sharing
3) from Alexis Carlson:
"I have a professor who created his own Death & Dying sociology course and uses content from the libraries' databases to put together everything he needs.
He is not good about sharing so the best I can do is offer you a few things he shared with me:
I love using the e-book database in this course because of the multi-disciplined offerings.
I take a more applied approach in this course so it is useful to have access to readings in areas such as counseling, grief management, psychology,
and other death care industries. I assign readings from different textbooks and other ones by single authors, then we do the sociology in class.
He also uses this LibGuide with the journals listed for student research: https://irsc.libguides.com/sociology/articles "
4) from Regina Gong:
When I was still at Lansing Community College,
I worked with one of our psychology faculty to create an OER on her Death and Dying/Psychology of Death course.
It was designed as a LibGuide with links to free resources combined with her own material.
Click on the All Topics tab to see all the sub-pages within the guide. While this may not be the exact thing you’re looking for, it might be helpful nonetheless.

Developmental Psychology

I am working with an excellent psych instructor who is looking for developmental psychology materials. Anyone out there have a good/trusted recommendation on developmental psych?

I recently sent this one on to our psychology instructor to review: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=540 . Haven’t heard feedback yet so I can’t vouch for it but it does have a couple reviews.

Here are a few more I found in MERLOT:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89817
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=1012464
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=89768
These are just a few of the 137 resources on that topic in MERLOT. I just did a search for Developmental Psychology in MERLOT and got this list:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=developmental+Psychology&sort.property=relevance

Maricopa Millions just produced a Developmental Psychology course. It is available on Canvas Commons (use the search tag "MMOER" and scroll down to find it). I can get you in contact with the developers, too, if Canvas Commons isn't ideal for you.

Diversity Studies

I have a faculty member looking for open material for a 3-credit “Intro to Diversity Studies” course; particularly resources related to or addressing:
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, race/ethnicity/white supremacy, social class, heterosexism/homophobia, transphobia, hate crimes, sexism, ableism, ageism, weightism, religious intolerance, micro-aggressions or similar.

Check out Everyday Social Justice, created by Jimena Alvarado at Portland Community College: https://sites.google.com/pcc.edu/jimena/home?authuser=0

I searched MERLOT for Diversity and there are a lot of materials the faculty member might use:
https://tinyurl.com/y25svkqh

I have a faculty member looking to replace a textbook for her class entitled Multicultural Education. A quick scan doesn't bring anything relevant up - but wanted to see if anyone had run across a title in this area before offering other ways to support their class.

I'm putting the final touches on a curated collection of free online resources (many but not all of them OER) for Intro to Humanities. I can send you an export file in either Bb Learn or Common Cartridge. The structure and commentary is CC-BY.
Corrie Bergeron, M.Ed., Bb MVP

Equity Literacy Project is in development on the Rebus Community platform. It may not be the spine of your course but might be a useful supporting resource. The project is aiming for a Fall 2019 release date. A description can be found here, and you can contact the team in the same thread if you're interested.

A colleague is looking for open resources about DEI, designed for a BIPOC student audience. Topics would include dealing with structural racism, dealing with microaggressions, or navigating predominantly white institutions, from a student perspective.
Useful info we've found so far is the content relating to intersectionality in Writing for Change ( https://textbooks.whatcom.edu/WritingforChange/ ).

I have a list of open DEI resources at https://librarysubjectguides.svsu.edu/OER/socialjustice .

We got an excellent recommendation for a list of open DEI resources.
Another useful resource: Mastering the Hidden Curriculum.

I have a faculty colleague who is developing a Sociology 241: Institutional Racism as Online Learning Course,
are there any OER resources available on this topic?

This new OER textbook out of College of Marin may be helpful for that course:
A People’s History of Structural Racism in Academia: From A(dministration of Justice) to Z(oology).
There’s also a .docx version of it on CC ECHO’s resource page that is better for editing purposes.

Education Sociology

I'm looking for OER on sociology of education. So far I only found this one: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/sociology-of-education-2
Does anyone have more resources?

OpenStax Sociology book has “Education “chapter in it (chapter 16). In case it helps. :-)
https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-2e

Feminine Archetypes

Psychology: I am looking for a self scoring quiz for individuals to take concerning feminine archetypes.
I have been on the Internet for these type of quizzes and they either have a paywall associated with taking them or require one to divulge their e-mail address
to be used by the internet organization offering the quiz. I am looking for a free self scoring quiz that people can take in the privacy of their own homes,
and then bring back to a women's meeting knowing their dominant feminine archetype(s). Can you help me find such a free self-scoring quiz?

There's a lot of shady ones out there ;-) This one I stumbled into seemed to give results (I have no idea how good the quiz is)
https://uquiz.com/quiz/6kvu4V/which-modern-feminine-archetype-are-you
But maybe more useful OER wise is the H5P Personality Quiz content type
https://h5p.org/personality-quiz
Making one would call for developing the questions and how to map the results.

Gerontology/Aging

Does anyone know of OER for Gerontology/Aging? I am looking more for texts, not just random modules. I teach Sociology of Aging and Death and Dying. Also, of interest for my program is Introduction to Gerontology and Psychology of Aging.

An Oregon instructor is using library materials because OER weren't available for her courses: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=grn

GRIT and Growth Mindset

Does anyone have any resources pertaining to GRIT and growth mindset?

Angela Duckworth (the "OG") has resources on her website: https://angeladuckworth.com/
Carol Dweck is the Growth Mindset OG. Here is her website: https://mindsetonline.com/

Human Growth and Development

Here is a link to the book I pieced together for my Human Growth course. We teach using a topical approach https://courses.candelalearning.com/edps208/ .

For a linear approach, Lumen has the following text listed https://courses.lumenlearning.com/lifespandevelopment2/

I did a search for our child development folks and found the books below. I don’t much about them, but there might be something there that is useful.

Yes, Jessica sounded like there were some revisions she was hoping to make and felt the book needed some revamping as well. I actually like the Lumen course a lot https://courses.lumenlearning.com/lifespandevelopment2/?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fcatalogs.lumenlearning.com%2Fcatalogs%2F1 and based my Child Growth and Development course off of their content and supplemented with noba and other content. If you want to access the course content in Canvas here is the link to enroll in the course. Once you enroll as a student I’ll switch you over to a teacher. I have not moved over to a more accessible format yet (.pdf or other) but if you utilize Canvas as your CMS I can create an export cartridge.
https://scccd.instructure.com/registerand use the following join code: PAB7WT
Have you accessed the ECE google group? This might have some additional information as well. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/early-childhood-education-oer-collaboration

This is a neat site overall. This page has a list of free textbooks
http://cyp-media.org/free-e-textbooks/
Educational Psychology text
http://cnx.org/contents/zmxetoTT@2.1:8cmu43n0@1/Preface
this is also customizable with any of the content here: http://cnx.org/
This seems to be mostly psychology, but some seems to relate to child development
http://nobaproject.com/browse-content
These are free to read online & to download as a pdf but a printed copy costs ~$40 – scroll down the page to see all of them
http://www.nap.edu/topic/282/education
This isn’t really child development but is a textbook resources for elementary schools. There may be something here that is helpful (or not).
http://www.ck12.org/
These are free online courses. Sometimes these can be leveraged instead of a textbook, but it can be iffy. Nonetheless, there may be something good here.
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/search-results?as_q=child
There are some Spanish options here but I need to do more research on copyright
https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/Pages/pdf-list.aspx
Free children’s books. These just looked like fun J
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ These were collected for my children’s lit and curriculum class (I actually ended up using the gov doc):https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=early+literacy

http://www.free-reading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/tanya-s-reunion

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/documents/readingk-3.pdf

http://doaj.org/search?source={%22query%22:{%22query_string%22:{%22query%22:%22early%20literacy%20acquisition%22,%22default_operator%22:%22AND%22}}}#.VR7PGPnF-BY

http://www.ck12.org/teacher/

From NOBA (psych): http://nobaproject.com/browse-content?query=&topics=6

From Una Daly:

The California Open Online Library (Cool4ed.org) has some OER for child growth and development (appropriate for CDEV 110 -- California Common CourseID) along with faculty reviews from California College and University Instructors. The etexts below are mostly chapters from the NOBAPROJECT and the Educational Psychology Textbook has several chapters on childhood growth and development.

eTextbook	eTextbook Reviews
Attachment Through the Life Course	Amber Hammons, CSU Faculty Regina Lamourelle, CCC Faculty
Cognitive Development in Childhood	Amber Hammons, CSU Faculty Regina Lamourelle, CCC Faculty
Educational Psychology	Amber Hammons, CSU Faculty Regina Lamourelle, CCC Faculty
Social and Personality Development in Childhood

A couple of other items that I found:

1. Developmental Psychology Open Textbook from African Virtual University:

http://oer.avu.org/bitstream/handle/123456789/72/Developmental%20Psychology.pdf?sequence=1

2. Several online modules on Childhood health and development

http://www.oercommons.org/courses/child-healthcare-growth-and-development/view

3. These are free child development lessons for educational purposes from AAAS but not OER so no adaptations (use as-is).

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/growth-stages-1-infancy-and-early-childhood

https://www.oercommons.org/courses/growth-stages-2-middle-childhood-and-early-adolescence

I have been using a Lumen resource https://courses.lumenlearning.com/lifespandevelopment2/ this semester. It does need some work.

Lifespan/Human Development – http://www.clcillinois.edu/programs/psy/openeducation

I noticed that our text for Lifespan has been suggested.
We are in the fourth edition, not second. And in the fall it will be edition 5. Go to the College of Lake County's website for the most recent version.
https://www.clcillinois.edu/programs/psy/openeducation
We typically update every 2 years.

Human Sexuality

One of our Psychology instructors developed a Human Sexuality course for our initial OER Pilot Project in the fall of 2015. She worked with the librarian, Michele Howard ( mhoward@nmc.edu ) , to find a wide variety of resources on her topics but decided to put the links into Moodle because of their rather "sensitive" nature. We have been getting inquiries about the course so Michele has moved the resources into a LibGuide. We licensed the LibGuide CC-BY. Some of the individual components may have different licenses. This isn't the Human Sexuality OER textbook

http://nmc.libguides.com/humansexoerhelp

This is published as "private" so you need the link to get to it. It won't come up in a Google search.

This is a list of resources that our Human Sexuality instructor uses. It includes an ebook that is in our library collection and links to other proprietary resources so it is not OER. But it might be of use to you anyway.

I just checked the list of things culled from this list-serv and
found that the few human sexuality items listed were either not OER or not
available. I'm looking for resources for human sexuality as taught by
psych, soc, and/or anthropology. We actually have a soc-anthro course - but
I suspect that there must be a lot of overlap with the traditional psych
human sexuality.

This is definitely a gap in the OER world. I keep hoping someone is working on it.
The Northwestern Michigan College instructor uses a copyrighted text that we found in Ebook Central and bought a multiuser license for.
There are some materials in the NMC Abnormal Psych LibGuide. I'm afraid this is one of those "piece-it-together" situations.
We need someone to get a gang of instructors together for a weekend retreat and put a solid OER Human Sexuality textbook together.

Humanities

I have a faculty member who is looking to start an Introduction to Humanities course and is looking for any OER options available. He sent me this expensive text as something like what he is looking to cover.

A faculty member here at SUNY Geneseo put together this collection of primary resources for Western Humanities I: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-geneseo-humanities1-1/
Most of the materials came from Project Gutenberg. Finding translations of the older works can be challenging, and ones in the public domain aren't always at the same standard as versions found in Fiero and other modern texts. If everyone's on board with some odd words showing up from time to time, and maybe providing links to other alternate versions of some texts, it's a great starting point.

I've spent the summer working with a research librarian and a Humanities instructor to put together a curated collection of resources for an online Intro to Humanities course. I'd be happy to share either the Common Course Cartridge or Blackboard Learn course export file.
Corrie Bergeron, M.Ed., Bb MVP
Instructional Designer & Learning Systems Administrator
Instructional Technologies Division
Lakeland Community College / lakelandcc.edu
440/525-7232

Inequality

I am looking for a textbook/textbooks for a Sociology course focusing on inequality in the United States. Are there any OER textbooks out there that touch on theory, theorists, and the different inequalities in the United States?

This suggestion comes at your question from a different angle, but you could explore Jimena Alvarado's site https://www.everydaysocialjustice.com/home .

Intimate Relationships

We had an instructor take on an existing course in the middle of the semester. The course is the "Psychology of Intimate Relationships."
Does anyone have any OER tests or assignments they're willing to share? This would help our instructor a lot.

We (LibreTexts) host a textbook that may be suitable for you (at least in part):
https://commons.libretexts.org/book/socialsci-33823
Also, if you do a search in our SocialSci library you can identify pages from in different pysch texts that may be useful. And using our remixer, you can rapidly general a text.
e.g., https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=sex&type=wiki

Introductory Psychology

I am working closely with a psych instructor who is planning to convert her entire introductory course to open materials and then share it out to the other psych faculty across our four colleges. She's looked at the OpenStax Introductory Psych text and found the writing a bit dry and some of the chapters lacking (sorry, no offense to OpenStax). Can anyone make recommendations for other textbooks and materials? She's willing to do a mash-up of materials.

There are several Psychology open textbooks listed through the BCcampus site as well - https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?subject=Psychology

This is what's known to be in use at Oregon's colleges: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=psy%20 . It's a mix of OpenStax and NOBA.

Introductory to Psychology / General Psychology [I am using the combo – OpenStax OER text with Lrnr – Edtech listed under supplements to use with the textbook – great combo!] https://www.lrnr.us/

I am working on an OER conversion project with the Psychology department at my College.
They want to convert their general psychology book to open.
This would result in huge savings for students since there are over 30 sections per year!
Our initial search has resulted in three different book options: (1) OpenStax, (2) Lumen, and (3) Noba.
I wanted to see if folks in this community had any other recommendations.
Are these three the best? Or are there other great textbooks that the group should consider?
We are favoring texts that have course materials like test banks, PowerPoints, etc.

A professor here did a major adaptation that included content from the Noba and I think OpenStax books, plus additional materials.
There is a test bank available as well.
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=9ee2a150-c41c-4e37-b7e1-142c67d5389d&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Psychology

You will find all those resources and more on the LibreTexts SocialSci library already typeset
to a central standard to facilitate easy remixing so that your faculty can focus
on evaluating/constructing content instead of addressing the mechanisms of integrating OER content from different sources:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Psychology

Here's what's being used for intro psych courses in Oregon:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=psy%2020

Our psychology instructor wanted to add the resource below as well.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/psychology

Hi all, I have an instructor who is likely piloting OpenStax Psychology 2e in the fall but has asked me for two items:

Is anyone using a good published open textbook for Intro to Psych OTHER THAN OpenStax that you would recommend he consider?
Are there any "marketing" materials to promote OpenStax Psych 2e to faculty, to rival the kind of concise but informational and persuasive marketing that a commercial publisher would provide to faculty for their textbooks? This is something we will likely look to create if his pilot is successful to get other faculty (especially adjuncts) on board, but I'd love to see any models or adapt something you've used that has worked for you.

Morning! There is no shortage of texts for intro psych (I teach intro using OER and the text I use is not listed here).
And while OpenStax is widely used, there are elements of it to dislike (as is the case with any text). Below is the list of intro psych OER we provide to our faculty.
If you are making the case for OpenStax, you may want to ask them for your state's adoption data - that can be very useful. At least 87 of our 115 community colleges
have at least one faculty that has reported using the OS intro text. The use by our transfer institutions is also data that our faculty find compelling.
Introductory Psychology (C-ID PSY 110)
Psychology 2e (Spielmen, Jenkins, and Lovett, 2020) (OpenStax) (CC BY 4.0);
Introductory Psychology (OpenStax) – LibreTexts (CC BY 4.0) Includes: Powerpoint Slides, Test Bank, and Instructor Manual (Free registration and/or login required for all).
OpenStax is maintained (and supported) by Rice University. Students have the option of accessing free digital versions or purchasing a print version.
CVC-OEI has imported the OpenStax text into Canvas. Additionally, Lumen Learning made an enhanced version of the digital text with embedded multiple choices available.
There are also openly available slides, assignments, and question banks available CC-BY.
Discover Psychology 2.0: A Brief Introductory Text (Diener and Biswas-Diener) (CC-BY-NC-SA) Includes: Powerpoint Slides,
Test Bank (Free registration and/or login required), and Instructor Manual. Noba is “the dream project” of Ed and Carol Diener.
It has modules written by some big names in psychology including Elizabeth Loftus, Ed Diener, Susan Fiske, David Buss, and many, many others.
There are also many links to animations and videos that are quite useful. Students have the option of accessing free digital versions or purchasing a print version.
Introduction to Psychology: 1st Canadian Edition (Stangor & Walinga) (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Includes: Powerpoint Slides and Test Bank (Free registration and/or login required
for both). Introduction to Psychology: 1st Canadian Edition was adapted by Jennifer Walinga from Charles Stangor’s textbook, Introduction to Psychology.
The adaptation and development of ancillary materials were supported by the B.C. (British Columbia) Open Textbook Project.
Students have the option of accessing a free digital version or purchasing a print version (although the shipping costs can be high).
A version of this book by Cummings and Sanders is also available with a glossary and slides and test bank also available after verification of instructor status.
Psychology: The Science of Human Potential by Jeffrey Levy (CC-BY 4.0) The Science of Human Potential is designed to be a concise,
cohesive introduction to psychology textbook. Psychology is described as a science studying how hereditary (nature) and experiential (nurture) variables interact
to influence the thoughts, feelings, and behaviour of individuals. The remainder of the text is organized into sections entitled “Mostly Nature” (biological psychology;
sensation and perception; motivation and emotion), “Mostly Nurture” (direct learning; indirect or observational learning; cognition), and “Nature/Nurture” (human potential,
with regard to each of human development, personality, social psychology, maladaptive behaviour, and professional psychology). Includes H5P review exercises
at the end of each chapter. Readable and editable versions are available, as is a hardcopy for sale.

Marginally related is the Psychology OER Starter Kit assembled by Rajiv Jhangiani
https://rajivjhangiani.com/open-educational-resources-in-psychology-a-starter-pack/

Lifespan Development
We have a couple of instructors who are looking for OER textbooks to each an introductory course in developmental psychology which covers the whole life span of development. Any suggestions?

Below is the text we adopted for our Human Growth and Development Course.
More information can be found in The Orange Grove Complete Florida Collection (course is DEP2004)
Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective by Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French—Chapter 1: Introduction to Lifespan Development
http://dept.clcillinois.edu/psy/LifespanDevelopment.pdf

One of our recent Maricopa Millions grant teams released Psychology Through the Lifespan last year, which builds upon a few previous works.
You can find it on Canvas Commons by searching the title or get it here through Lulu: http://www.lulu.com/shop/julie-lazzara/psychology-through-the-lifespan/ebook/product-24254692.html

We have compiled and integrated several of those texts for easy remixing/customization (since a textbook is not a one-size fits all thing for every faculty member) within our SociaSci library:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Human_Development
If you want more information, feel free to hit us back.

There's a complete set of Lifespan Development OER content, as well as open supplemental materials, here: https://lumenlearning.com/courses/lifespan-development/ . Just click "View Course Content and Outcomes."

Does anyone know of some good textbooks/resources for OER courses in Lifespan Growth and Development.
We are looking for a good book with resources for our LMS (which happens to be canvas).

Here are some texts to consider with some associated resources.
You can also find some H5p activities in the libretext studio which might be helpful H5P Library | LibreStudio (libretexts.org)
Lifespan Development: A Psychological Perspective Second Edition (Lally and Valentine-French, 2019) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
This age-based approach textbook was written by Martha Lally and Suzanne Valentine-French and was funded by a grant from
the College of Lake County Foundation and supported by the Business and Social Sciences Division.
Chapter narration files (Andrea Pantoja Garvey, 2022) (CC BY-NC-SA) are available in Canvas Commons.
Psychology through the Lifespan (Alisa Beyer and Julie Lazzara, 2020) (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Downloadable and viewable at the site. Age-based approach textbook for lifespan developmental psychology course, updated summer 2020.
Google slides (CC BY-NC-SA) developed by Fernando Romero are available.
Human Growth and Development Question Library (Cotter, Fisk and Grissett, 2018) – Galileo (CC BY-SA)
This set of questions for use with quizzes and tests was created under a Round Four ALG Textbook Transformation Grant with an accompanying
PowerPoint lecture set. The course uses the free and open Human Development sections of Boundless Psychology.
Lifespan Development (Lumen Learning) (Varied Licenses – terms of each page must be reviewed)
Includes: PowerPoint Slides, Test Bank, and Instructor Manual (Free registration and/or login required for all).
This appears to be a complete book (although it does not appear to have a link that will facilitate download or printing).
In addition to the faculty resources (which you can request access to), there are pre-recorded lectures and study guides. Finally, there are a variety of relevant videos.
Human Development (Callahan, Dose, Wright, Pace, Earl, and Nummerdor, 2020) – Georgia Highlands College (Varied Licenses)
Instructor resources – discussion questions, video links. Test bank available upon request
Human Growth and Development (Newton, 2022) – Pressbooks (CC BY)
Students learn the stages of the human life span: prenatal, infancy, toddlerhood, middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood, late adulthood, and death/dying.
For each stage of the life span, students examine cognitive, language, emotional, social, personality, and physical development. In addition,
students explore the procedures used to conduct research about human development.
Comment: This text, based on Lifespan Psychology by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the Noba Project, OpenStax Psychology,
and Understanding the Whole Child by Jennifer Parks, Antoinette Ricardo, and Dawn Rymond, College of the Canyons.
Additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and Sarah Carte, Margaret Clark-Plaski, Daniel Dickma, Tera Jones, Julie Lazzara,
Stephanie Loalada, John R. Mather, Sonja Ann Miller, Nancee Ott, and Jessica Traylor. Modification, adaptation,
and original content authored by Julie Lazzara & Ryan Newton.

OpenStax — the OER textbook publisher based out of Rice University — is publishing a free online, peer-reviewed,
openly licensed Lifespan Development textbook in spring 2024.
This textbook will come with LMS course cartridges to integrate the text into your LMS.
Our Psychology textbook offers a chapter on lifespan development.
This text comes with free ancillary resources, including a Canvas course cartridge, test bank, and lecture slides.
Please feel free to explore the remainder of our current textbook library here: https://openstax.org/subjects.

LGBT

A sociology instructor is seeking resources for an OER textbook for an LGBT Studies course. So far all we have found is this one in the making...
https://www.purchase.edu/live/news/3294-suny-oer-text-for-intro-to-lbgtq-studies
Any other resources out there you might recommend?

This is not an open textbook per se but a set of wonderful resources put together by New America organization on how open digital materials can support LGBTQ inclusive teaching. Kelsey Smith wrote a blog post for our Equity, Diversity, Inclusion series on this work and it may be helpful for your faculty.
https://www.cccoer.org/2018/10/09/on-equity-diversity-inclusion-and-open-education/#LGBTQ

There’s a really excellent “Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies” text published by folks at UMass Amherst that might worth looking into: openbooks.library.umass.edu/introwgss/. A bit of context on its creation if that’s of interest: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/libraries-announce-new-open-textbook-

Jimena Alvarado has an Intro to Queer Studies course available via https://www.everydaysocialjustice.com/complete-courses/introduction-to-queer-studies

Life and Career Development

I have an instructor looking for material for Life and Career Development SLS1301:
Description:
This course is designed to facilitate the career decision-making process and equip students with the necessary job search skills in the 21st century. Students will engage in discussions, activities and take assessments that explore their personalities, interests, abilities and values in order to develop their self-awareness and make informed career decisions. Additionally, students will develop skills in job-seeking techniques, resume writing, interviewing and networking. Opportunity will be provided for students to explore career resources, diversity in the workforce, ethical concerns, and company culture.

I suggest Dave Dillon's Blueprint for Success in College and Career: https://press.rebus.community/blueprint2/

Marriage and Family

I am looking for Marriage and Family OER. I found one text and one test bank. Anyone know of anything else?
You might find this useful, from College of the Canyons: Intimate Relationships and Family for a Sociology course.

We’re searching for OER material for a text on Marriage and Family for a sociology course. We’re currently using the OpenStax sociology text for our intro course, so we don’t want to use that information in the Marriage and Family book.
We found a textbook at http://www.freesociologybooks.com but they are PDF and cannot be changed. We would like to adapt them but do not have permission from the author.
Does anybody have any other sources?

This is the book we're using at Bay: Marriage and Family

Our Sociology department has been using the Intimate Relationships and Family book attached. The book has been adapted from Ron Hammond and Paul Cheney from Utah Valley University.
We also have a Word file and chapters broken out into PDF, if you would like those.
Best,
Brian Weston, MPA
Director, Distance and Accelerated Learning
Co-Chair, Educational Technology Committee
Project Manager, Zero Textbook Cost grant (ECE)
Single Point of Contact, OEI
College of the Canyons
(661) 362-3102--

Multiculturalism and Diversity

Does anyone have a link to OER textbooks or links to pdf’s on topics in multiculturalism and diversity? We have scoured all the normal places but we are coming up empty.

Here is a video we used in diversity training:
Diversity: “Cracking the Codes” ( http://blog.bristolcc.edu/ctl/2015/10/29/diversity-cracking-the-codes/ )
Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequity is a film that asks Americans to talk about the causes and consequences of systemic inequity.
Each of the stories in this playlist of 17 videos has been taken from the film Cracking the Codes. The Conversation Guide is designed to support organizations that are using this film to introduce the concept of systemic inequity to a diverse audience and deepened the conversation on race.
And see www.crackingthecodes.org
Links to diversity, multicultural, and inclusion resources: https://www.diigo.com/user/kschnapp/diversity

Pop Culture Sociology

We are creating a Pop Culture Sociology course and we are looking for an OER. Course Description:

Using a multi-disciplinary approach, students will explore and examine popular culture as one of the most significant cultural and social agents in contemporary society.
Learners will study the emergence of pop culture studies and a range of diverse theoretical approaches including critical studies of gender, sexuality and race.
Students will consider a variety of mediums such as music, video games, social media, art, film/television, fashion and celebrity.
Finally, learners will study and reflect on the role of popular culture in the development of individual identity and group/community identity and action

I've checked the usual locations (OpenStax, OERCommons, MERLOT, BCcampus, eCampus Ontario, OASIS, Open Textbook Library, OASIS, OpenOregon, OAPEN) but I wanted to reach out in case there is a gem in a local repository. I think the instructor is looking for something equivalent to John Storey's textbook:
https://www.routledge.com/Cultural-Theory-and-Popular-Culture-An-Introduction/Storey/p/book/9780367820602

I have taught pop culture in the US online for about a decade. I've created all my videos and put them on YouTube with CC license.
Many of them have been informed by Storey and Cullen's pop culture teaching texts:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtZptnQ98JwsaX31hsCi5PJeTUVL_PhX8

I also have all of my written stuff (Learning guides, assignments, syllabus, etc) with CC licenses and located here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1i8Fm8adSHvHIcqNn-p5wdxCHNs-3a7gj?usp=sharing

Might be more raw material, but there is a huge amount of relevant content at Open Culture
https://www.openculture.com/

Psychology of Happiness

Does anyone know of an OER “Psychology of Happiness” course? If yes, I would appreciate information.

Hi Donald, there is a "Science of Happiness" course from U.C. Berkeley on edX that you can enrol in for no cost and determine if there are open resources available. It is extremely well reviewed by learners and I often use it as an open(ish) digital design example.
https://www.edx.org/course/science-happiness-uc-berkeleyx-gg101x-6

There is an OER textbook for positive psychology, “Tao of Positive Psychology,” on OER commons. If you would like the original Word file with images in it, feel free to get in touch with me directly, since I wrote the book. It is also available at cost in print form on Amazon.com, for those students who prefer a print version. (Mark Kelland, Lansing Community College)

Social Justice Education

I’m working with an education faculty member that is trying to locate open source alternatives for Is Everyone Really Equal? By Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo. We’ve already done some initial searching through OER content websites like Merlot, and OER Commons (I also did some initial Google searching). I also located some ebook content that students can access (multiple user access).
I was wondering if anyone had other ideas for OER materials related to social justice and education?

I will have to take some time to contact the Zinn Education Project (preparing for class right now) and ask them their policy in relation to OER usage. It certainly is in the spirit of the Peoples' history movement, and I have long adopted and adapted material from Zinn and others in the project for classroom use. I am very interested in social justice education and would like to see what comes out of this research.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/

I'm working with an instructor teaching Group Work Skills and Social Change Skills who is interested in using OER texts with a social justice focus. Specifically, OER on facilitating group counseling and enacting social change movements within a community.

You might look through the open textbooks linked on Open Social Work here: https://opensocialwork.org/textbooks/
They are organized by topical focus, and the Practice section might be most useful. There is also a list of open access monographs, some of which are openly licensed, on the site at: https://opensocialwork.org/books/

In terms of specific titles, the following might have potential. I can't speak to the social justice aspect.
*A Toolkit for Teaching Communication Skills in Social Work (video set & teaching guide): https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewSite.htm?id=9161524
*Social Work, Sociometry, and Psychodrama: Experiential Approaches for Group Therapists, Community Leaders, and Social Workers: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-33-6342-7
*Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships (chapters on work, marriage & family, conflict, talking & listening...):
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/interpersonal-communication-a-mindful-approach-to-relationships

Social Problems

I’m reviving a question from 2018 by Quill West regarding the OER text: “Social Problems: Continuity and Change”
There appears to be a few versions floating around that utilizes the material from the OER text, however, the data has now become somewhat dated
(and remains unchanged across versions) and our faculty are looking for topics and prompts that are more relevant to today’s issues and statistics
(examples: Chapter 2: Some of the data on Poverty is almost 15 years old and Chapter 5 End-of-Chapter Material encourages students to advocate for
Same-Sex Marriage which was legalized in 2015).

I will chime in for the ASCCC Open Educational Resources Initiative (OERI) project that just built this resource in our SocialSci library titled
"Race and Ethnic Relations in the U.S.: An Intersectional Approach"
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Long_Beach_City_College/Race_and_Ethnic_Relations_in_the_U.S.%3A_An_Intersectional_Approach
There is a section that we are cultivating to this topic:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Sociology/Cultural_Sociology_and_Social_Problems
But, it is still small with three texts. No doubt will grow given the issues the country is grappling with these days.
All the pages are remixable as OER should be.

Social Psychology

One of our professors has adopted the Principles of Social Psychology published by the University of Minnesota Libraries as an OER. http://open.lib.umn.edu/socialpsychology/
The professor is looking for any supporting materials, particularly any PowerPoints, that have been created to accompany this text so she doesn’t have to start from scratch. Does anyone have anything they could share?

The Rebus Community is supporting the creation of slide decks for this edition of the Principles of Social Psychology, published by BCcampus: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ .
We currently have 9 out 11 decks prepared, and are looking for volunteers for help us complete the set. I believe chapters 7 and 11 are left. I've copied in Rajiv Jhangiani, the project lead, who can speak to this in more detail, and perhaps share the slide decks prepared so the instructor could adapt for the UMN edition of the text.

Does anyone have good recommendations for her in the following two areas?
Lifespan Development and Social Psychology.

There are several copies of this OER text out there. Ours is here:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Book%3A_Human_Development_Life_Span
we are integrating this text right now that may be of use:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/applied-developmental-systems-science-everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-theories-meta-theories-methods-and-interventions-but-didn-t-realize-you-needed-to-ask-an-advanced-textbook
One of our professors used the following from the Open Textbook Library in our Human Growth and Development course:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/lifespan-development-a-psychological-perspective
For all sorts of psychology content, check out Noba: https://nobaproject.com/
The Ohio OpenEd Collaborative recently produced an Intro to Psychology course. The modules on Social Psychology and Human Development have a lot of resources.
https://ohiolink.oercommons.org/courseware/6

Social Psychology Info – (there are more chapters than shown on this page) https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/principles-of-social-psychology

Hi Everyone - I have a fellow faculty member looking for OER resources as she develops 2 new courses - Social Psychology and Lifespan Development. I have found a few texts for Social Psychology but nothing specific for Lifespan Development. Anyone have some hints as to what I should recommend for her?

I searched MERLOT for Lifespan Development and found the following:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/lifespan-development-a-psychological-perspective
http://opencourselibrary.org/econ-201/
https://cnx.org/contents/rP4p4dMS@1/Open-Course-Library-Lifespan-Psychology
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-47143-3
https://open.umich.edu/find/open-educational-resources/medical/human-growth-development-m1

Although not fully OER, here is another option for lifespan psych. As someone who has taught this course, I'm not fully confident that any of these are complete enough. But that is a completely different conversation. :-)
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/lifespan-development-2/view

Social Work

I have a faculty member who can’t find OER textbooks for social work. I’m having trouble as well. Can anyone recommend resources for social work, if possible specifically in these fields:
-Social Work with Communities and Organization
-Introduction to Social Welfare Policy

Our instructor, Lisa Blackford, uses a LibGuide the librarians helped her put together. Please feel free to make a copy and adapt it to your instructor's needs.
http://nmc.libguides.com/socialwork/swk121

Sociology

Are either of you aware if there is a testbank for Canvas for Intro to Sociology 2e for OpenStax? It must be a zip file. Thank you.
There’s a Canvas course cartridge for download on our website: https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-sociology-2e

Sociology of the Family

I'm wondering if anyone has done any development around Sociology of the Family. There is a Free Sociology Book: http://freesociologybooks.com/Sociology_Of_The_Family/01_Changes_and_Definitions.php

You might check out this open text from College of the Canyon Intimate Relationships and Families for their SOC 103 course.

We have procured these for our institution. Feel free to use them!
http://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/OER/Pages/COC%20OER%20Textbooks.aspx#Sociology
[click on sociology and it should take you to the five books we’ve posted].

I am looking for upper level sociology course textbooks for the following courses:
Classical Sociological Theory
Contemporary Sociological Theory
Sociology of Sport

This has been reported as an excellent resource (I am basis as I helped to bring this one online):
https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/oa_textbooks/3/
The book is now available in seven different languages! It is written for graduate and doctorial students, so it may be too advance for your needs.

Suicide Prevention

My College is having a digital Out of the Darkness Walk, suicide prevention (awareness) and fundraiser for the AFSP.

I'm not sure of the copyright status of all of these (so they may not be appropriate if your colleagues are planning to produce revisions/remixes, etc),
but there are a number of high quality suicide prevention resources available from the National Council for Behavioral Health at
https://www.integration.samhsa.gov/clinical-practice/suicide-prevention-update . Many of the resources collected there appear to be produced by US Federal
agencies, which means that they may be in the public domain (see: https://www.copyrightlaws.com/copyright-laws-in-u-s-government-works/ ).
Good luck -- this sounds like a worthy & timely project.

Sociology

We're looking for OER texts for a sociology professor, specifically:

Marriage and Family/Relationships
Race/Ethnicity with a sociological emphasis
Society and Crime or a Criminology from a sociological perspective

She is interested in hardcopy textbooks (or texts that could be printed via LibreText) for our incarcerated student program,
ones that are not intro-level sociology texts.

Here are some key searches on our new Commons catalog system (we will formally release next month) that may help you:

https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=sociology&library=&subject=&location=campus&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=race&library=&subject=&location=campus&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=Criminology%20&library=&subject=&location=campus&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=

Naturally, you can remix/collect as you see fit.

Here's what Oregon instructors are using for courses on families: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Famil

We're working on creating textbooks/courses that address all three of these areas with an equity lens.
More about this project: https://openoregon.org/targeted-open-pathways-for-hdfs-and-soc/

Here's a folder with background scans that were created for our project by Michaela Willi Hooper, our research consultant:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PkqceUNiuBcTD7Dcjk4nMR_DnCY73VPS
Is it essential that the texts considered be openly licensed?

My wife and I ran a prison teaching project for several years in Wisconsin, and open licenses weren’t much use to us in those contexts because prison rules
constrained prisoners (or instructors) from using the tools that might allow them to exercise the permissions granted by open licenses
(revise, remix, redistribute, retain). Furthermore, if the books need to be printed, the ‘free’ advantage of OER is similarly lost.

We had a lot of success buying print copies of copyrighted texts from traditional publishers, especially those with more a radical mission.
University presses and folks like AK Press, Haymarket, Verso, Zed Books, etc will often provide very generous discounts on print
purchases for bulk orders especially when they know the books are going to be used for prison education. If your prison allows used books to
be donated/brought in for educational purposes, you may also be able to purchase several second hand editions for less than it might cost you
to print on demand new copies even of openly licensed books.

Statistics for Psychology

I was recently approached by a professor looking for OER statistics resources geared towards Psychology. I know there are many texts out there with this specific focus, but instructor who approached me is looking for a complete course, with lecture slides, test banks, and other ancillary supports.

I suggest checking Noba and OERCommons.org, if you have not yet done so.

Substance Abuse

Looking for a few OER on:
Substance Abuse
For substance abuse the US Government is a great source. No, really, I find that they have tons of information that is really good background and most of it is in the public domain. I also really like http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ . It's not an open source, but it is freely available and the Mouse Party is a really cool description of the neurological effects of drugs.

Upper Division

Here's a "faculty showcase" for an upper division Psych course that used an open etextbook but it's not the OpenStax one. There might be some topics they can discuss. https://contentbuilder.merlot.org/toolkit/html/snapshot.php?id=78773148524364

Behavior Modification
One of our Psychology instructors will be teaching Behavior Modification, and is interested in replacing the current, expensive text with OERs. What resources do folks have? I didn't see anything on Larry's list. The OpenStax Psych book has a part of one chapter on it. I don't think that's enough depth.

Corrie, I know that the NOBA Project has a wealth of OER psych materials – that’s all they do. Here is a link to a resource page by Rajiv Jhangiani – if it exists in OER PSY, he no doubt knows about it.https://thatpsychprof.com/oer-for-psychology/

Science

I am curious if there is any open resources for a basic science lab. Not geared toward a specific discipline but rather basic skills, measurements, error analysis, scientific method, etc... The other class that I think lends itself well to using open resources is General Physical Science. This class covers astronomy, geology, physics, and chemistry. I appreciate any help or guidance with this since I am not even sure where to start.
Hi Debbie, you could try searching OER Commons. Here are the lab materials created by Oregon community college faculty: https://www.oercommons.org/groups/openoregon/425/?&f.search=lab

I’m hoping that someone has a lead on OER content for an introductory survey course in science (SCIE 2240: Science Past, Present, and Future). The outcomes are broad and include:
· Describe the steps in the scientific method
· Describe a series of experiments from the history of science that illustrate the elements of scientific method.
· Define accuracy, precision, systematic error, and random error as they apply to measurements.
· Employ appropriate units for physical measurements.
· Define a hypothesis test and identify its components.
· Make a conclusion from a formal hypothesis test based on sample data.
· Create a written group report on a modern scientific result and the consequences to the prevailing scientific theory or model.
· Discuss current trends in science.
(This is not an exhaustive list)
I have checked OpenStax, Open Textbook Library, OER Commons, BCcampus, Cool4Ed.org, OASIS, and Mason OER Metafinder. I have found a chapter here or there which might be re-written to fit these outcomes. However, I would love to find 2-3 books (possible topics: history of science, scientific method and research techniques, and current/future trends in science) that would cover these topics more comprehensively.
I certainly do not expect to find all of this in one place. Any leads would be appreciated!

This research methods course should have some relevant materials:
https://online225.psych.wisc.edu/
By the way, I think the way that she designed this course without tests is interesting and innovative.

Meteorology

I am on the hunt for either a meteorology text or some specific meteorology content to supplement some existing OER Geo content.
It’s not a text, but it is an open course with a lot of resources: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo300/ . Could be useful

Has anyone worked on OER for meteorology?

A UBC prof wrote Practical Meteorology several years ago, and has been using it in his classroom ever since. He does update it as needed. It's in our (the BC) collection.

Natural Resources/Forestry Resources

I’m currently hunting through skills commons for some resources but thought I would check here in case others have some great info!The 4 courses I am looking for:
Forest Ecosystems
Watershed Ecology
Computers in Natural Resources
Principles of Wildlife Management

There's a book by Mount Hood Community College faculty member Joan DeYoung: Forest Measurements: An Applied Approach

Sign Language

Does anyone have an OER for online American Sign Language (ASL)?
Open Course Library has materials for three ASL courses:
http://opencourselibrary.org/course/

Our ASL instructor has put together a series of resources for this and I created a webpage with her links:
https://ltcconline.net/greenl/OER/AS101OER.html

An ASL instructor at Western Oregon University has a list of suggestions for you:
https://libguides.ucc.edu/c.php?g=594027&p=5107029
https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=american+sign+language&f.general_subject=&f.sublevel=&f.alignment_standard=
https://www.oercommons.org/search?f.search=american+sign+language&f.general_subject=&f.sublevel=college-upper-division&f.alignment_standard=
http://opencourselibrary.org/asl-121/
http://www.ltcc.edu/campusresources/oer.php
http://blog.coerll.utexas.edu/availability-of-fl-materials-in-oer-repositories/
https://signteach.eu/index.php

I’ve got an ASL instructor who is looking for a no-cost picture dictionary. Does anyone know of anything?

Are they wanting a print version? There is a free dictionary online at https://www.signasl.org/

RIT/NTID put together ASLCORE https://aslcore.org/ which contains over 2000 entries in a variety of subjects from STEM areas to Humanities.
The focus is on more specialized vocabulary in these areas.
The resource is free to use, but does not have an open license.

I apologize, I'm sure this has been asked before, but can anyone share a list of American Sign Language OERs?

I don't have a list for you but I can tell you that I have an ASL faculty creating an OER right now.
He is using quite a bit of Bill Vicars content (attributed as Vicar's recommends) https://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-layout/instructor.htm
I"m happy to send it to you once he's done. Or if you hear of any, please share.

We have a faculty member looking for OER in ASL. The emphasis in this course is on expanding (1) grammatical understanding of ASL,
(2) functional application of ASL, (3) vocabulary, and (4) understanding and appreciation of Deaf culture and the Deaf community.
We have not been successful with finding current OER, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi Shannon, we have two courses using related no-cost materials, maybe not quite what you're looking for though.

Padden, Carol and Tom Humphries. Inside Deaf Culture. vol. 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed, Harvard University Press, 2006. (Library ebook)

Integrated and Open Interpreter Education edited by Elisa Maroney, Amanda Smith, Sarah Hewlett, Erin Trine, and Vicki Darden:
https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/interpretingstudies/

I am looking for American Sign Language and Deaf Culture OER Resources.

This will not help with finding pure OER, but I always thought one of the best use examples of a media not typical thought of as
OER was the Sign With Robert series on Giphy. The repetition of action seems ideal for practicing.
https://giphy.com/signwithrobert
Of course these are not shared under any license, and the status of animated gifs if I read right is that they are be
default copyrighted. I guess they could be used as an external link/reference.

Hi Shanna, here's a book created at Western Oregon University:
Integrated and Open Interpreter Education edited by Elisa Maroney, Amanda Smith, Sarah Hewlett, Erin Trine, and Vicki Darden

We have a fingerspelling text on our LibreVerse corpus (along with the text that Amy mention):
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages/American_Sign_Language

I have an ASL instructor looking to adapt a dynamic ASL textbook. Your recommendations are appreciated.

I haven’t seen a lot of ASL OER. Have you seen Signing Naturally?
I think the cost is reasonable, and it has some fantastic resources. Faculty at Houston Community College very happy with it.

I know of the following OER for ASL:
American Sign Language
Finger Spelling
https://pressbooks.saskpolytech.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/asl/
Also these on other aspects of Deaf Education
Integrated and Open Interpreter Education.
Deaf Education Pressbook
In addition, I believe the following might not have Creative Commons licensing but are free:
https://www.lifeprint.com/
Bill Vicars' ASL University YouTube Channel

We recently published two OER textbooks in the past year on signed languages.
The faculty author uses a lot of the online resources others have mentioned and cites them in the text but likes
students to have a book/workbook to follow. You can find those here.
Introduction to Signed Languages
Intermediate Signed Languages

I am looking for OER in American Sign Language.

There is a project slowly moving forward in City College of San Diego.
I know some of their content is hosted as h5p activities on our Studio platform (mostly interactive videos):
https://studio.libretexts.org/collection/18334

Have you checked Open Textbook Library?

There are some ASL OER that I've compiled here: https://libguides.polk.edu/asl

Spanish

A faculty member here is trying to locate materials to support a Spanish for Native Speakers course. Suggestions welcome!
Call up Carl Blyth at COERLL (www.coerll.utexas.edu ). He heads the center for open educational resources and language learning. He has a few contacts with instructors at the University of Oregon, who are doing great things with OERs in heritage Spanish, aka native speaker Spanish.

Does anyone know of, or use an OER Spanish Textbook? We have a languages department that is very interested in offering OER materials to students.
Any help is much appreciated.
We aren’t using any at PCC, yet .. But you might want to check out the following resources (not really textbooks --- but maybe workable?)
http://acceso.ku.edu/
http://grammar.spanishintexas.org/

It isn't a textbook but one of our Spanish instructors recently started using
Mi Vida Loca for Spanish 101 & 102. Its video course through the BBC. It isn't open but it is free. He is very excited about the transformation in his teaching he's experienced using it. I'll be happy to share his contact information if your department is interested.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/syllabus.shtml

There have been a few email strands asking about Spanish texts. I was doing a search for an instructor and found the ones below. Most have been brought up in the past, but I think the first 2 may be new to the list.
https://psu.pb.unizin.org/spanish001fa16/
http://www.appstate.edu/~fountainca/1050/
http://acceso.ku.edu/
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Spanish
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Spanish_1
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/spanish/spanish-perspectivas-portenas/content-section-0
http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/spanish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/mividaloca/
http://grammar.spanishintexas.org/
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/spe/

I have a meeting next week with our Spanish faculty member who wants to converts their Spanish 1 - 3 courses over to OER. Does anyone have any good resources? I believe she will be willing to mix and max and possibility contribute some of her own material.

I have been involved with this effort for some time now. There are several good sources that your faculty will be able to incorporate in some ways (listed below), but there is no one source that provides the full 5-skill/communicative approach that can be adapted freely. She likely will be creating and contributing a great deal of her own material.

Here are some good resources that contribute in different ways:

COERLL project at the University of Texas (different aspects include videos, proficiency exercises, grammar explanations, etc.)
Acceso/Kansas University – intermediate level
OLI/Carnegie Mellon – this is the gold standard, but it is NC-ND…..if your institution is willing to pay their fee per student (reduced for CC), it may be a way to get started while building her own courses
Project Gutenberg – readings

This was the OER developed by our Spanish instructor for the ATD OER Degree Pathway grant: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/atd-baycollege-spanish1/

Hi Cindy, the following OER are in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=span

Jeff Ruth from East Stroudsburg University is working on a Spanish language open textbook. I've copied him on this email so he could speak more to his project, and whether your faculty would be able to join forces.
I'd also point to this textbook by Ana I. Serrano Martínez from Penn State: https://psu.pb.unizin.org/spanish001fa16/

People mostly covered this below (thank you!) but these are the Spanish resources from COERLL: http://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/spanish . As people mentioned there may not be a full curriculum but there are a lot of supplements out there.
Our grant is ending in August and we are currently writing the proposal for our next grant. In that proposal, we are including a project for creating a beginning Spanish curriculum with a team at Texas A&M.
Also on our Language OER Network there are several teachers listed who have created Spanish materials, you can browse the descriptions here: https://community.coerll.utexas.edu/ .
We’d also be happy to talk to your faculty member if she wants to bounce ideas around.

Here at Pima Community College in Tucson, we have some dedicated Spanish faculty developing OER Spanish 101 and 102 courses. One of the challenges they are running into is finding OER graphics to supplement their materials. They know how to use Flickr for a CC photo search for aesthetic touches, but they are looking for things like images/charts/graphics for learning numbers, days of the week, and so on. Can anyone direct us to these types of resources?

Below are some good sources for images:
CC has a nice search engine that allows you to look through multiple sites: https://search.creativecommons.org/
This site has a good list of various places to search for images, audio, etc:
https://open4us.org/find-oer/
I have compiled a list of my personal favorite image sites:
https://roola.weebly.com/images-to-download.html

I am looking for leads on an OER text for Anatomy and Physiology in Spanish and/or Swahili. So far I have found a few Spanish language resources via Merlot. Any additional ideas would be appreciated.

Four ideas for resources in Spanish, beyond Merlot:

1. Interactive books from Spain’s Dept. of Education: http://recursostic.educacion.es/secundaria/edad/
2. Gateway site for Spanish-language OERs, including from Spain and Latin America, all disciplines and educational levels: https://emtic.educarex.es/229-nuevo-emt/recursos-para-el-aula/2422-22-bancos-de-recursos-educativos-digitales-que-conviene-tener-a-mano
3. Temoa is an OER portal from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico. I searched by discipline, then filtered for language. You can also filter for education level: http://temoa.tec.mx/
4. The National University of Colombia: www.virtual.unal.edu.co

Hi everyone, if you have a few moments to respond, I would appreciate knowing what are the "best" alternatives to Pearson's MySpanishLab, either open or "affordable". I have a team of faculty working on converting Introduction to Spanish and there is now a dispute over whether they should actually go OER or stick with what they use because they feel that MySpanishLab is immensely valuable. They're Pearson rep is capitalizing on this and offering a $60/semester alternative and one of the faculty members wants me to see what they get through MySpanishLab to understand what they need.

We have been working with several teams of Spanish language instructors for extending our ADAPT homework system into this area. Part of this effort involves building and harvesting summative H5P problems (several thousand so far) that can complement formative use (i.e., with a gradebook vs. without). Many of these exercises can be converted into more secure technology (since students can hack into most H5P implementations easily) on our platform. We just introduced a feature that allows students to record and submit audio submissions and allow for graders/instructors to send back audio too.

We are very receptive to new ideas at this stage of development, so if you tell us what you like about MySpanishLab, we may be able to fold it into our platform.
Check out our playlist on the project: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL83Q_gTbFatR74UV_Cbq0hZ3VvAxhRZJ3
We will also be showcasing ADAPT in our Spring LibreFest workshop next month (May 25th) :

https://blog.libretexts.org/2021/03/19/next-librefest-scheduled-for-may-25-2021/

At the Open Education Conference in Phoenix in 2019, Alessandra Ribota and Dr. Gabriela Zapata from Texas A&M University gave a presentation on using OER materials that they had developed for Spanish classes. They were hosting the materials themselves and it was not on a national repository. Check out her website below and maybe email them if you need more information.
Here is Dr. Zapata’s OER materials on her home page: https://www.gzapatatexasam.com/

Apologies for cross-posting. I have a Spanish professor interested in exploring zero-cost materials solutions for her classes,
and she's wondering about the possibility of speaking/listening practice with native speakers—some sort of language exchange possibly?
Bonus points if there's a way to integrate into the LMS to allow for assignment completion tracking, etc.
I know it's not what we traditionally think of as "OER" but thought I'd check to see if anyone has any suggestions.

Here is an introduction to Spanish OER with audio files and H5P activities. I believe Pressbooks has an LMS integration option for the H5P activities.

You may already be aware of this resource -- and I am unsure if they provide exactly what your professor is looking for --
but one place to check would be The Center for Open Educational Resources & Language Learning (COERLL) at UT Austin:
https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/ .

Great question, Brandon. I’m part of a team that created a first-year Spanish homework ancillary that is housed on LibreTexts’ ADAPT platform.
It can be easily brought into Canvas and Blackboard, and it includes speaking and listening practices.
The Instructor Guide for Tarea Libre has all the information.

I'm not sure how much traffic this service still gets but, I think it is what you're looking for:
https://www.language-exchanges.org/

We (the LibreTexts dev. team) have collected 1000+ Spanish H5P assessments in our studio including those that Sarah mentioned and others.
https://studio.libretexts.org/browse/collections?Subject=&subject%5B29%5D=29&tags=&key=Spanish

GED in Spanish

One of our faculty members supports Spanish language speakers taking the GED, and she needs argumentative essays written in Spanish that are easy to understand. If you don't know of argumentative essays, specifically, any essay collections would be helpful.

https://es.wikibooks.org may have something you could use.

Native Speakers' Spanish

I’ve got an instructor who teaches Spanish 3 for Native Speakers.
Does anyone know of anything?

COERLL has an OER website for Spanish as a heritage language – it’s not exactly the same thing as native speaker Spanish but it may be useful for them.
There are no full curricula on there but there are lots of different units and activities by a variety of educators.
I’d be happy to speak to her further if she has any questions. Here’s the link:
https://heritagespanish.coerll.utexas.edu/ .
Most of the actual OER is on the Resources > Classroom activities tab.

Native Speaker's Spanish Materials

I got a question about finding OER in Spanish and I could use some help answering! To clarify, this question is not about materials to learn Spanish,
but rather course materials for Spanish speakers. Bilingual resources would be most helpful so that the same course could be taught in both English and Spanish.
Here's what I already know of.
Lindsay's recent message about the Spanish translations of OpenStax textbooks was helpful. Go to
https://openstax.org/subjects , then from the "subjects" dropdown select Spanish to view.
There is also the excellent collection for Early Childhood Education from College of the Canyons that has Spanish translations available:
https://tinyurl.com/ECEOERSummary .
Libretext has a Spanish area of their site:
https://espanol.libretexts.org/ - but it's not clear what's here. Are these OER composed in Spanish?
Are they professional translations of OER from elsewhere on the site? Is it machine translations of their English-language collection?
Others have previously shared a list of repositories and resources for OER in Spanish:
https://es.serlo.org/community/199370/lista-de-repositorios-motores-de-b%C3%BAsqueda-y-sitios-web-con-licencias-rea .
I haven't given it a try myself and I'm not sure whether its focus is on translations or original work.
Other resources to share? Thank you!

Thank you for asking this question and sharing repositories you’ve used!
I’ve been meaning to post the same for “best websites for non-English language OER”
as I’m helping an instructor locate alternative reading materials for various subjects,
that are in languages other than English to support students’ understanding of various subjects.

OER Commons: advanced search option with a lot of filters (limit by language and subject area, and type of content).
OER in Other Languages: repository dedicated to collecting OER in languages other than English; more for browsing than searching (simple blog)
Open Textbook – BC Campus Non-English OER
OpenLibra.com (can switch interface between English and Spanish, and filter to English materials or Spanish materials; low-tech interface
Scielo: academic science journals from Spanish- and Portuguese-Speaking countries, many in Spanish, Portuguese, or English; some with abstracts in both languages
Redalyc: OER repository in Mexico of scientific journals

I’m hoping to learn about more international repositories as well (there was a (UN?)
report about OER in countries other than the United States and that also gave me ideas for looking for specific language/country
repositories or international universities/government programs producing OER)

Tannis Morgan did a lot of work with OER in languages other than English. See her site here "OER in Other Languages" https://oloer.opened.ca
And her bio here: https://ctlr.vcc.ca/about/our-team Her homonym.ca website is down.

And some other readings on english-dominance at:
Language and the OER Problem (part 1)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180812095914/https://homonym.ca/uncategorized/language-and-the-oer-problem/
Language and the OER Problem (part 2)
https://press.rebus.community/openatthemargins/chapter/oer-and-the-language-problem-part-2-the-status-and-function-rationale/
There is also a mention in: Breaking Open: Ethics, Epistemology, Equity, and Power
https://press.rebus.community/openatthemargins/chapter/breaking-open-ethics-epistemology-equity-and-power/

Technology Literacy Focus in Spanish

I'm looking for resources in Spanish with a technology literacy focus such as basic Word, keyboarding, using a computer, etc.

About 18 months ago we used machine translation to convert 100,000 pages of English OER into Spanish ( https://espanol.libretexts.org/ ).
It isn't a perfect translation, but the need for Spanish OER was great out there and this was stop-gap starting solution that can be expanded on with human improvements.
In fact, the Spanish library is now the 2nd most popular library in our corpus with 50M+ pageviews per year, which further emphasizes the need for non-English OER development.
We have some workforce resources that may be of use to you in the Vocacional bookshelf:
https://espanol.libretexts.org/Vocacional
Please let me know if this is useful to you.
Any new LibreTexts book can automatically be converted to any of 100 languages in this manner so if a new LibreTexts book is of interest to you and you want it in Spanish,
also please let us know.

GCF global, https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/ , has some great resources on the basics -- you can switch to Spanish on the top menu bar.

Workplace Spanish

I wanted to inquire about any material that has been created for Spanish for the Workplace/Business.
The instructor that I am working with indicated that this is an entry level course so the students will have little to no previous experience with Spanish.
Any leads would be greatly appreciated!

The closest thing I can think of is Cultural Interviews with International Business Executives, created by Orlando Kelm at the University of Texas: http://sites.utexas.edu/culturalinterviews/ .

I think at one point this had a CC license but they moved it to a new platform and I don’t see a license anywhere. I will look into that.
Also on COERLL’s Spanish in Texas website here are the videos related to work:

https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/spintx/search/content/?f[0]=im_field_topics%3A34 . (CC BY-NC-SA)

I searched MERLOT and found this organization which has links to a variety of Spanish Business language resources:
https://nble.org/business/business-languages/business-spanish/

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email Larry Green, mathematics professor and OER advocate at Lake Tahoe Community College, at: DrLarryGreen@gmail.com

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