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Accountability and Repairing Relationships: Training and Facilitation Guide
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A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Accountability and Repairing Relationships is a series of four 90-minute workshops for individuals who have been informed that they have caused harm in the context of sexual violence. Designed for one-on-one or small group facilitation, learners are guided through information and reflection activities that help them recognize the harm they have caused, learn how to be accountable, and develop the skills needed to build better relationships and support a safe and healthy campus. (The slide deck that accompanies this resource can be downloaded from the Introduction).

Subject:
Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
Sexual Violence Training Development Team
Date Added:
05/14/2021
Active Bystander Intervention: Training and Facilitation Guide
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A workshop and facilitation guide to support B.C. post-secondary institutions to prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct. Active Bystander Intervention is a 90-minute workshop for all members of the campus community: students, faculty, administrators, and staff. This training helps learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to recognize and intervene in an incident of sexual violence as well as discuss strategies for creating a safer campus community. Uses the 4D’s (Direct, Distract, Delegate, Delay) Active Bystander Intervention Model. (The slide deck that accompanies this resource can be downloaded from the Introduction.)

Subject:
Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
Sexual Violence Training Development Team
Date Added:
06/04/2021
Better writing from the beginning: An open text on the college writing process
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Covers processes and fundamentals of writing expository essays, including structure, organization and development, diction and style, revision and editing, mechanics and standard usage required for college-level writing.

This project was funded by a grant from the Higher Education Coordinating Commission in Oregon, a grant that ran from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017. The text of the book is complete (though, in the way of these things, still evolving), but moving it online is still in progress. The chapters available here are ready to be used or copied; additional chapters will be added during the summer of 2017 as the conversion and final copy edits are completed.

Subject:
Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
03/30/2023
Budget Basics for Grant Writing
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This handbook is presented to you by the Office of Scholarship and Sponsored Projects in FHSU. It covers the topics on developing a budget for grant proposal writing, the types of costs, budget justification, and FHSU procedures for proposal submittal.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
FHSU Digital Press
Author:
Leslie Paige
Misty Koonse
Date Added:
05/18/2021
Communications in Law Enforcement and the Criminal Justice System
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The ability to communicate is critical to those who work in law enforcement. This book will examine the key principles of communication personnel in law enforcement require. Areas covered include listening skills, communicating tactics, interviewing skills, note-taking, report writing and testifying in court. Also covered is a section on PTSD and its interaction with law enforcement. Key here is that police officers should understand the relationship between PTSD and the need to communicate with others in seeking help and assistance. The book concludes with a section on the history of women in policing. It is the belief of the authors of this book, that women have played an enormous role in developing the communication within policing and have advanced the narrative of a more inclusive approach to communication.

Subject:
Criminal Justice
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Cindy Patterson
Steve Mccartney
Date Added:
05/03/2023
Creating Corpus-Informed Materials for the English as a Foreign Language Classroom: A step-by-step guide for (trainee) teachers using online resources
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This Open Educational Resource (OER) web-book aims to empower English teachers from across the globe to design their own, authentic, corpus-based lessons by showcasing a range of ideas for creating corpus-informed teaching materials using online resources.

Pre-service trainee teachers from Osnabrück University (Germany) contributed the chapters as part of three English Pedagogy Masters of Education seminars taught by Elen Le Foll.

The introductory chapter “About the project” outlines the rationale and development of the project and discusses how various challenges were overcome. The remaining Lesson Ideas chapters are organised according to the school type for which they were developed.

Part I is dedicated to corpus-informed lesson ideas for primary schools.
Part II showcases corpus-informed lesson ideas for secondary schools.
Part III explores the use of corpora in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and bilingual secondary education.
Part IV presents corpus-informed lesson ideas for English for Specific Purposes (ESP) and vocational education.

For teachers and teacher trainees entirely new to corpora, we recommend selecting one or two chapters of interest and following the step-by-step instructions in order to recreate the corpus-informed materials proposed by the chapter authors. As you work your way through these, you will find that the various ideas and methods outlined in all the chapters can easily be transferred to an infinite range of different language foci, topics, and educational contexts.

In addition, most of the chapters include worksheets that can be downloaded as individual PDFs in just one click. Thus, this book also provides a low-threshold introduction to working with corpus-informed materials for teachers with no previous knowledge of corpora. It is hoped that the experience of using these “oven-ready” corpus-informed materials, which require little to no preparation time, will encourage teachers to subsequently invest time in working through a selection of the book’s chapters in order to, in due course, be able to pick their own ingredients and create entirely new and delicious corpus-informed dishes!

Each chapter, or recipe, has a different focus which may be lexical, grammatical, or phraseological, and focuses on a different set of language and/or interdisciplinary skills. The chapters are all similarly structured. The chapter contributors begin by describing their lesson’s learning objectives and outlining the rationale for their choice of topic, corpus, and corpus tool. They then guide the reader through all the necessary steps to create their proposed corpus-informed materials with clear, tutorial-like and illustrated step-by-step instructions. In many instances, the authors also provide instructions for their lesson tasks, as well as (possible) solutions. At the end of each chapter, you will also find additional options and ideas to expand or adapt the proposed lesson to the taste buds of your students.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
Educational Technology
English Language Arts
Higher Education
Language Education (ESL)
Languages
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Student Guide
Textbook
Date Added:
03/30/2023
Criminal Justice Statistics: A Lab Manual
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In this lab, we will be working with entering, formatting, and analyzing data in Excel. Please note: this lab is written for a beginner in Excel and meant to introduce you to various capabilities of Excel. You may feel the need to skip through some steps if you are experienced with Excel, and that is fine. Just make sure you understand the content of the lab! Future work will build on these skills.

Subject:
Criminal Justice
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Textbook
Author:
Elias Nader
Date Added:
05/03/2023
Data Wrangling with R
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This workbook is a brief introduction to data wrangling. In this book, we introduce core concepts in data wrangling, use the R language, the R Studio interface, and the tidyverse set of packages that are dedicated to getting us to tidy data.

This resource will be updated as needed. For the most recent version, visit: https://cod.pressbooks.pub/datawranglingwithr/

Subject:
Computer Science
Computer, Networking and Telecommunications Systems
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
College of DuPage
Date Added:
04/11/2023
The Ecosphere and Environmental Issues
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This textbook is designed for introductory environmental studies and science students. The goal is to teach essential ecological concepts by linking them to key environmental issues. The hope is that students can easily understand how firm grounding in these concepts can help them appreciate and hopefully address the biggest environmental threats of our time. After an initial section on the nature of science and an overview of ecology, the textbook is divided into four sections, each addressing a key environmental concern: global climate change, eutrophication, biodiversity loss and food supply and security. After a brief introduction to the environmental concern, the book addresses ecological concepts relevant for understanding the issue. Each section wraps up with a return to the environmental concern and insight into how the ecological concepts learned can be applied to the environmental issue.

Subject:
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
VIVA Open Publishing
Author:
Sarah Sojka
Date Added:
05/03/2023
Enseigner en ligne par le jeu – Un livre de recettes
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L’apprentissage par le jeu préconise des activités centrées sur les apprenants leur permettant d’explorer, d’échouer et de relever des défis dans un environnement sécuritaire. Il permet également de favoriser l’autonomie des étudiants au sein d’univers créés par les professeurs. De plus, les jeux sont de nature à renforcer l’engagement des étudiants dans le processus d’apprentissage. Dans le contexte éducatif, ces traits caractéristiques et ses qualités peuvent grandement favoriser l’engagement, la motivation et l’apprentissage des étudiants. Un panel interdisciplinaire d’experts propose des recettes pour intégrer différents types d’activités d’apprentissage par le jeu dans le contexte de l’enseignement en ligne. Une gamme d’activités vous sera proposée : du quiz jusqu’aux jeux d’évasion en passant par les jeux coopératifs ou encore les mots-croisés.

Subject:
Education
Educational Technology
Higher Education
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
eCampusOntario
Author:
The Egg
Date Added:
05/12/2023
Environmental Science: A Canadian perspective
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Environmental science draws on knowledge and methods from many fields of the sciences and social sciences, including biology, chemistry, economics, ethics, geography, geology, medicine, physics, political science, sociology, and statistics. Many environmental specialists adopt an interdisciplinary approach to integrate these different ways of knowing in order to help understand and prevent environmental damage. This book also adopts an interdisciplinary approach by drawing on a variety of disciplines. At the same time, however, the choice of topics and the interpretations offered reflect my own experience and world view as an ecologist – one who has had a rather specialized career examining the ecological dimensions of environmental problems.

Subject:
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
eCampusOntario
Author:
Bill Freedman
Date Added:
05/03/2023
Ethics in Law Enforcement
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In this book, you will examine the moral and ethical issues that exist within law enforcement. This book will also familiarize you with the basic history, principles, and theories of ethics.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Criminal Justice
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Philosophy
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
Rick Parent
Steve McCartney
Date Added:
06/01/2020
Exploring Human Services
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An introduction to social work in the United States and a wide variety of specializations and populations that social workers engage with. This resource was created for Human Services 1100 - Introduction to Human Services at the College of DuPage, and includes local resources.

This resource will be updated as needed. For the most recent version, visit: https://cod.pressbooks.pub/exploringhumanservices/

Subject:
Social Science
Social Work
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
College of DuPage
Author:
Andrea Polites
Mary Beth Mulcahy
Date Added:
05/11/2023
Faculty OER Toolkit – Open Textbook
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The Faculty OER Toolkit is an information resource about and guide to adapting and adopting Open Educational Resources. Included are definitions and examples, information about Creative Commons licensing, and tips on how to adapt and/or adopt OER for classroom use. School Counsellors can benefit from understanding OER.

Subject:
Education
Higher Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
Shannon Moist
Date Added:
06/12/2023
Healing and Reconciliation Through Education
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This open educational resource is focused on teaching the history of the colonial legacy of Residential Schools, with an emphasis on exploring the unique history of the Shingwauk Residential School which operated in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. This project builds upon decades of archival research and data collection, including the recording of oral histories, under the Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre’s (SRSC) mandate of ‘sharing, healing, and learning.’ ‘Realizing Healing and Reconciliation through Education’ is designed to increase the capacity of the SRSC to educate local, regional, and national audience about the history of Residential Schools.

Subject:
Education
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
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eCampusOntario
Author:
Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre
Date Added:
03/09/2020
The Iliad
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There is no greater introduction to world literature than Homer's Iliad. The great epic poem tells the story of the Bronze Age war between the Achaeans (Greeks) and Trojans, the great warriors who did the fighting, the woman they were fighting for (and fighting over), and the gods who egged them on. This is a new, 21st century verse translation by Michael Heumann. It seeks to retain the spirit and language of Homer's original Greek while making it readable and enjoyable for a modern audience. Michael Heumann is a Professor of English at Imperial Valley College in California. He holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Riverside. This is his first translation.

Subject:
Ancient History
Arts and Humanities
History
Literature
Material Type:
Reading
Date Added:
04/05/2023
Introduction to Careers in Child Development
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This book provides free educational resources to be used in the area of career exploration within the field of child development and early childhood care and education. Resources and information relates to Child Development /Early Childhood Education and Education majors at California Community Colleges.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Early Childhood Development
Education
Material Type:
Full Course
Homework/Assignment
Lecture Notes
Reading
Textbook
Author:
Gloria San Jose Daims M.S.
Date Added:
05/03/2023
Introduction to Criminal Investigation: Processes, Practice and Thinking
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Introduction to Criminal Investigation, Processes, Practices, and Thinking is a teaching text designed to assist the student in developing their own structured mental map of processes, practices, and thinking to conduct criminal investigations.

Delineating criminal investigation into operational descriptors of tactical-response and strategic response while using illustrations of task-skills and thinking-skills, the reader is guided into structured thinking practices. Using the graphic tools of a “Response Transition Matrix”, an “Investigative Funnel”, and the “STAIR Tool”, the reader is shown how to form their own mental map of investigative thinking that can later be articulated in support of forming their reasonable grounds to believe.

Subject:
Criminal Justice
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Darryl Plecas
Rod Gehl
Date Added:
05/03/2023
Intro to Social Media
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This book is aimed at managers, business owners, marketing managers, and aspiring social media marketing interns and managers. I will assume that however accomplished in your own field - baker, developer, teacher and that even as successful business owners, you approach the topic of social media marketing as a beginner. Even if you are an avid personal user of social networks, we will treat this book as a guided tour of social media for marketing purposes.

Subject:
Business and Communication
Communication
Education
English Language Arts
Higher Education
Marketing
Public Relations
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Oklahoma State University
Author:
Cheryl Lawson
Date Added:
05/10/2023
Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students
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"Let’s Talk About Suicide: Raising Awareness and Supporting Students" includes a facilitator’s guide with handouts and a PowerPoint presentation. This adaptable resource offers a sensitive, respectful, and detailed training on suicide awareness and response. It can be used for two-hour synchronous training or for self-study.

Subject:
Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Author:
Barbara Johnston
Dawn Schell
Jewell Gillies
Liz Warwick
Date Added:
07/23/2021