Find Open Textbooks

Results: 330 Open Textbooks

• Information Directory

  Author(s): Lauri M. Aesoph

  Updated: Sep 9, 2020

  Description: The Information Directory lays out current events, opinions, and OER investigations related to open education in four categories: blogs, books,news, and research. It was created to fulfill the need for Canadian-based information, specifically British Columbia, on open education. However, the Information Directory also includes content from other English-speaking countries with chapters for the United States, the Northern hemisphere, and the Southern hemisphere. This directory is considered an ...[more]

  Accessible

• Line D - Organizational Skills Competency D-5: Use Manufacturer and Supplier Documentation

  Author(s): Camosun College

  Updated: Sep 9, 2020

  Description: Document use is one of the nine essential skills identified by the Government of Canada to be successful in the workplace. It refers to the skills needed to find, enter, and use letters, numbers, symbols, and images in electronic and paper form. In the trades, people use document literacy skills to find and enter information in forms, lists, tables, graphs, maps, and drawings. The following list of lines and competencies was generated with the goal of creating an entry-level trades training res...[more]

  Reviewed Adopted Accessible Supplementary materials

• Human Security in World Affairs: Problems and Opportunities (2nd edition)

  Author(s): Alex and Sabina Lautensach, Eds. (UNBC)

  Updated: Sep 9, 2020

  Description: This first and only university textbook of human security is intended as an introductory text from senior undergraduate level up includes chapters by 24 authors,from BC, Canada, and around the globe, that encompass the full spectrum of disciplines contributing to the human security field. It is based on the four pillar model of socio-political security, economic security, environmental security and health security. The chapters include learning outcomes, extension activities,and suggested read...[more]

  Accessible

• Building Blocks of Academic Writing

  Author(s): Carellin Brooks, KPU

  Updated: Sep 4, 2020

  Description: Building Blocks of Academic Writing covers typical writing situations for developing academic writers, from prewriting and research through expressing themselves online. Developmental work in different types of paragraphs—descriptive, narrative, expository, persuasive—allows students to build capacity for longer essays. Each chapter includes review questions with a Canadian focus that instructors can assign to help students practise the skills developed in the text. This book aligns with the BC...[more]

  Adopted Accessible

• Introduction to Psychology (University of Saskatchewan)

  Author(s): Jorden A. Cummings, Lee Sanders; University of Saskatchewan

  Updated: Aug 25, 2020

  Description: This introductory text has been created from a combination of original content and materials compiled and adapted from a number of open text publications, including Introduction to Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition (Stangor & Wallinga, 2014), the Noba Project, and Research Methods in Psychology – 3rd American Edition (Price, Jhangiani, Chiang, Leighton, & Cuttler, 2017). This version of the text includes a Key Terms list for each chapter, an expanded glossary, and H5P chapter self-tests.

  Adopted Supplementary materials

• Math for Trades: Volume 1

  Author(s): Chad Flinn, Mark Overgaard; BCIT

  Updated: Aug 25, 2020

  Description: The Math for Trades: Volume 1 textbook represents the building blocks for math training. The book includes whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents. The material is presented from a trades perspective with easy-to-understand examples and video explanations accompanying questions. The goal of this volume is to get students prepared for the more advanced topics that they will encounter during their trades math education.

  Adopted Accessible

• The Originals: Classic Readings in Western Philosophy

  Author(s): Edited by Jeff McLaughlin, Thompson Rivers University

  Updated: Aug 19, 2020

  Description: It is important for students not only to get an appreciation and understanding of philosophy but also to be exposed to the very words and ideas of those who have shaped our thinking over the centuries. Accordingly, the title of this collection hints at the facts that these readings are from the original sources and that these philosophers were the originators of many of the issues we still discuss today. Major areas of philosophy covered here are: Ethics, Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy o...[more]

  Adopted

• Chemistry: Atoms First - 2e (OpenStax)

  Author(s): Paul Flowers, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Edward J. Neth, University of Connecticut, William R. Robinson, PhD, Klaus Theopold, University of Delaware, et al.

  Updated: Aug 18, 2020

  Description: The intention of “atoms-first” involves a few basic principles: first, it introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach, and it threads these themes through subsequent chapters. This approach may be chosen as a way to delay the introduction of material such as stoichiometry that students traditionally find abstract and difficult, thereby allowing students time to acclimate their study skills to chemistry. Additionally, it gives students a basis for underst...[more]

  Adopted Accessible Supplementary materials

• Words of Wisdom: Intro to Philosophy

  Author(s): Jody Ondich, Lake Superior College

  Updated: Aug 18, 2020

  Description: Words of wisdom can come from anyone. In this text, we discuss topics ranging from “Are humans good by nature?” to “Is there a God?” to “Do I have the right to my own opinion?” Philosophy is the study of wisdom and can emerge in our conversations in places like social media, school, the family dinner table, and even the car. This text uses materials that are 2,500 years old and materials that were in the news recently. Wise people come in all shapes and types, and from every culture on earth. P...[more]

  Adopted Supplementary materials

• Creating Online Learning Experiences

  Author(s): Matt Crosslin, et al.; University of Texas at Arlington

  Updated: Aug 7, 2020

  Description: This book provides an updated look at issues that comprise the online learning experience creation process. As online learning evolves, the lines and distinctions between various classifications of courses has blurred and often vanished. Classic elements of instructional design remain relevant at the same time that newer concepts of learning experience are growing in importance. However, problematic issues new and old still have to be addressed. This handbook explores many of these topics for n...[more]

  Reviewed Accessible