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• Adult Literacy Fundamentals Mathematics: Book 2

  Author(s): Wendy Tagami, Liz Girard

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: This is book two in a six-book series on fundamental mathematics for adult learners. These books include glossaries, self tests, practice requests, grades records, and unit tests. Ancillary Resources include the Instructor's Manual.

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• Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers

  Author(s): Michael A. Caulfield, Washington State University Vancouver

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly. We will show you how to use date filters to find the source of viral content, how to assess the reputation of a scientific journal in less than five seconds, and how to see if a tweet is really from the famous person you think it is or from an impostor. We’ll show you how to find p...[more]

• Working in the Food Service Industry

  Author(s): The BC Cook Articulation Committee, go2HR

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: Workplace Safety in the Foodservice Industry 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. Workplace Safety covers British Columbia le...[more]

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• Workplace Safety in the Food Service Industry

  Author(s): The BC Cook Articulation Committee, go2HR

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: Workplace Safety in the Food Service Industry is one of a series of Culinary Arts books developed to support the training of students and apprentices in BC’s foodservice and hospitality industry. Your health and well-being are your most valuable possessions. Many laws and regulations exist to ensure employee safety, yet every year thousands of serious injuries occur. In many cases, these injuries have serious long-term consequences for both employees and employers. For those new to the workfor...[more]

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• World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500

  Author(s): Eugene Berger, George L. Israel, Charlotte Miller, Brian Parkinson, Andrew Reeves, Nadejda Williams, University System of Georgia

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance 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 Kh...[more]

• World Regional Geography

  Author(s): Caitlin Finlayson, University of Mary Washington

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: World Regional Geography presents an overview of the discipline by introducing students to key themes and concepts in the discipline of geography through a study of the world’s regions. This text approaches geography as experts understand the discipline, focusing on connections and an in-depth understanding of core themes. This thematic approach, informed by pedagogical research, provides students with an introduction to thinking geographically. This text emphasizes depth over breadth by arrang...[more]

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• Writing for Success - 1st Canadian Edition

  Author(s): Tara Horkoff, Scott McLean

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.

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• OER by Discipline Guide

  Author(s): Josie Gray, BCcampus (Editor)

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: The BCcampus Open Education OER by Discipline Guide lists a wide range of open educational resources organized by discipline. It acts as a referratory where the name of the resource, a link to where it can be accessed, its licence, and then a short description are provided. Discipline-specific collections are also included. Because this guide is updated frequently, as new resources are identified, files for the guide are not provided (but can be requested). Note that textbooks in the B.C. Open ...[more]

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• OER Research Toolkit (including Surveys)

  Author(s): John Hilton III, David Wiley, Lane Fischer, Rob Nyland, Open Textbook Network

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: The OER Research Toolkit is comprised of the OER Research Guidebook and several additional resources, including surveys for both students and instructors who are using OER in the classroom. The purpose of this guidebook is to provide ideas for how individual faculty members and those who support them (e.g., librarians, instructional designers, etc.) can research the effect of their adoption of open educational resources (OER). Clearly educational research is a challenging enterprise; this guide...[more]

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• CB Trousse d’outils d’accessibilité pour les

  Author(s): Amanda Coolidge, BCcampus, Sue Doner, Camosun College, Tara Robertson, CAPER-BC

  Updated: Mar 28, 2019

  Description: La Trousse d’outils d’accessibilité est une collaboration entre BCcampus et le Centre for Accessible Post-Secondary Education (CAPER-BC ou Centre pour les études post-secondaire accessible). BCcampus est une organisation financée par les fonds publics qui utilise la technologie pour relier les compétences, les programmes et les ressources de tous institutions post-secondaire de C.B. dans un réseau de services de livraisons collaborative. BCcampus est l’organisation en tête du projet de manuels ...[more]

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