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Designing for All
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The goal of the Designing for All: A Toolkit for Maximum Digital impact is to provide resources for instructors at Vancouver Island University to create digitally accessible courses for their students. It focuses on the suite of tools supported by the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL). A giant thank you to BCcampus and their Accessibility Toolkit - 2nd Edition. We were able to rely heavily on the content provided in that publication in the creation of our own version. Thank you for your hard work.

Subject:
Applied Science
Architecture and Design
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform
Author:
Anwen Burk
Kathleen Bortolin
Sylvie Lafrenière
Date Added:
12/16/2020
Designing the Digital World
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The book offers a blend of theory and practice in guiding readers to apply design thinking principles to solving some of our world’s biggest problems. At the same time, readers are encouraged to become aware of new and emerging technologies that make prototyping and applying solutions a reality.

Subject:
Computer Science
Computer, Networking and Telecommunications Systems
Information Science
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Open Press at NUI Galway
Author:
Eileen Kennedy
Date Added:
05/31/2021
Developing Change Agents
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Developing Change Agents examines the role of academia in creating the next generation of sustainability leaders. Delving into strategies to transform higher education, this volume empowers universities to develop change agents who can scale solutions to meet the wicked environmental, social, and political challenges of the present and future. Developing Change Agents advances a revolutionary perspective on the way academia functions from the administrative hierarchies to faculty, and the classroom and to deep engagement in the communities where the solutions must be co-created. This book works to find a transdisciplinary, effective method of tackling the world’s issues with reference to emotional intelligence, diversity, community, and reward structures and supports a tailored, reflexive approach based upon each university’s diverse and unique students, faculty, programs, and communities.

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Agriculture and Natural Resources
Environmental Studies
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Minnesota
Provider Set:
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Author:
Abigail M. York
Alexander S. Liepins
Edited by Kristi L. Kremers
Date Added:
04/12/2021
Drawing in Class
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Drawing in class is often seen as a distraction to learning. We are here to change that, with a series of activities designed to get both students and teachers benefiting from the power of visual thinking through drawing.

Subject:
Education
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform
Date Added:
10/29/2020
Dress, Appearance, and Diversity in U.S. Society
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This is a free textbook geared towards college-level courses about dress and identity. The purpose of the book is to help students learn about dress, identity, and how these topics intersect with marginalized communities. Everyone interacts with different people in their day-to-day lives. Having a greater understanding of others can lead to a more equitable, just society. This textbook was created by Kelly L. Reddy-Best and funded by the Miller Open Education Mini-Grant Program at Iowa State University. Extra care and effort were involved to assure you have access to high-quality, affordable course materials. I am interested in your experience using these materials and welcome your feedback. If you find any issues or missing areas in this text or want to offer positive feedback email me at klrb@iastate.edu.

Subject:
Social Science
Sociology
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University Open Books
Date Added:
12/03/2020
An Ecological Approach to Obesity and Eating Disorders
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Being able to step voltages to a higher value and step voltages down to a lower value is one of the benefits of alternating current. This book will explain how this is possible through transformers with a focus on single phase.

Subject:
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Environmental Studies
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Clemson University
Author:
Ashley Jacoby
Becky Tugman
Brandon Perdue
Brian Weaver
Chris Matlashewski
Conor Coleman
Drew Belsha
Federico Martinez
Greg Goines
Katie Dzoba
Katie Yacu
Kelly Berk
Lauren Gohs
Laurie Barton
Maclaine Hanvey
Nicole Barber
Peyton Sutley
Randy Fang
Samuel Garrson
Savannah Shope
Sydney Worrrall
Tyler Mandel
Victoria Kellogg
Yang Wu
Zach Harley
Date Added:
08/07/2021
Educational Media Program
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This book collects posts from the Educational Media Program's blog. The EdMedia Program is run by the Teaching and Learning Centre at Simon Fraser University and is designed to help faculty, staff and grad students make sense of and educational media and incorporate it into their teaching practice.

Subject:
Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform
Date Added:
07/06/2020
El Español por el Mundo
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Welcome to “El español por el mundo”, a book written by Gemma Morawski and Ani Alcocer as part of an OER project for the Idaho Department of Education. Gemma is an adjunct professor for the Department of World Languages at Boise State University. Ani is an instructor in Spanish for the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Idaho.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Languages
World Languages
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Idaho Open Press
Date Added:
03/29/2023
Entrepreneurial Leadership for the Trades
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This book has been broken down into two categories. Leadership and Business. You will need to learn both to be successful. We started with leadership as everything rises or falls with leadership and leading yourself is the most important step in learning to lead others. We finish off with some basic business concepts. Get these foundational pieces right will be essential for the rest of what you build. You and your business will be that much stronger because of it.

Subject:
Career and Technical Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform
Author:
Chad Flinn
Tim Carson
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
Financial Accounting
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This book is intended for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. It covers the standard topics in a standard sequence, utilizing the Socratic method of asking and answering questions. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Module
Provider:
University of Minnesota
Provider Set:
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
Author:
[Authors removed at request of original publisher]
Date Added:
02/19/2021
Food Labelling
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This open textbook provides a foundational understanding of Food Labelling.Food Labelling is an open textbook created using Chapter 2/Food Labelling from the Open Textbook Interpreting Canada’s 2019 Food Guide and Food Labelling for Health Professionals.

Subject:
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education
Culinary Arts
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Nutrition
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
NSCC Libraries
Date Added:
12/04/2020
Food Safety, Sanitation, and Personal Hygiene
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Food Safety, Sanitation, and Personal Hygiene is one of a series of Culinary Arts open textbooks developed to support the training of students and apprentices in British Columbia’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Although created with the Professional Cook, Baker and Meatcutter programs in mind, these have been designed as a modular series, and therefore can be used to support a wide variety of programs that offer training in foodservice skills.

Subject:
Comprehensive Health and Physical Education
Culinary Arts
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Nutrition
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
BCcampus
Date Added:
02/10/2021
Food Studies: Matter, Meaning, Movement
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Food Studies aims to help readers understand and address numerous issues within food, food culture, and food systems. These subjects transcend disciplinary boundaries and call attention to how matter, meaning, and movement produce complex and dynamic food-human realities. Chapters range from sovereignty to breastfeeding, financialization to food porn, pollination to fair trade. Embedded throughout, art, poetry, illustration, and audiovisual works offer moments to reflect on and synthesize the text-based entries. Through reading, classroom discussion, and engaging with the extensive pedagogical tools, learners and teachers alike may acquire a new sense of things foodish—along with a new sense of their own place and role within food systems themselves.

Subject:
Culinary Arts
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
eCampusOntario
Author:
Amanda Di Battista
David Szanto
Irena Knezevic
Date Added:
05/03/2023
Forensic Psychology and Law: A Canadian Perspective
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Our goal in writing this text was to provide a comprehensive overview of the diverse and broad field of forensic psychology, including applications in both the criminal and civil legal systems, with a focus on the Canadian experience. The core topics include forensic assessment in the criminal and civil domains, treat- ment, children and juveniles in the legal system, eyewitness testimony, police and police investigations, jury decision making, and correctional psychology.

Subject:
Criminal Justice
Hospitality, Tourism and Social Service Careers
Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
British Columbia/Yukon Open Authoring Platform
Author:
Deborah Connolly
Patricia Zapf
Ronald Roesch
Stephen D Hart
Date Added:
07/06/2020
Foundations in Visual Media Production
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The emphasis in this course is about establishing the kinds of habits and techniques that you can build upon if you choose to pursue visual media production further than the extent to which this course is designed.

Subject:
Film and Music Production
New Media and Technology
Visual Arts
Visual Arts and Design
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Pressbooks @Granite State College
Author:
Steve Covello
Date Added:
08/22/2021
From the Bottom Up
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From the Ground Up is a collection of undergraduate writings on the interplay between health, the environment and community. The chapters range from engaging pieces on life during the Covid Lockdowns of 2020 to the environmental artist and food justice activist Ron Finley who is merging community, art and food security in South Central, Los Angeles. This work also includes an exceptional analysis of the haunting legacy of contaminated waterways in Brazil. The methods of analysis found within the collection include PhotoVoice and visual analysis—methods which have long been utilized within sociology, history, cultural studies, anthropology and community-based participatory research to achieve theories of resilience (via an analysis of community voices and community art forms) that literally emerge from the ground up.

Subject:
Ecology
English Language Arts
Life Science
Reading Literature
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
University of Central Florida Pressbooks
Date Added:
03/30/2023
Fundamentals, Function, and Form: Theory and Analysis of Tonal Western Art Music
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This text provides readers with a comprehensive study of the theory and analysis of tonal Western art music. Author Andre Mount begins by building a strong foundation in the understanding of rhythm, meter, and pitch as well as the notational conventions associated with each. From there, he guides the reader through an exploration of polyphony—the simultaneous sounding of multiple independent melodies—and an increasingly rich array of different sonorites that grow out of this practice. The book culminates with a discussion of musical form, engaging with artistic works in their entirety by considering the interaction of harmonic and thematic elements, but also such other musical dimensions as rhythm, meter, texture, and expression.

Subject:
Film and Music Production
New Media and Technology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Milne Publishing
Author:
Andre Mount
Date Added:
07/17/2021