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Results: 338 Open Textbooks

• OER Student Toolkit

  Author(s): Daniel Munro, UBC, Jenna Omassi, UBC, Brady Yano, SFU

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: Student support and advocacy for OER is important to ensure that OER gain or continue to build momentum on campuses, bring together community members, and push for the adoption and creation of resources. This toolkit provides information on how interested student societies/associations as well as individual students can successfully advocate for greater OER adoption on campus. Primarily designed to serve post-secondary students in Canada working to support open education, we hope this toolkit w...[more]

• FLO Facilitation Guide: Facilitating Learning Online

  Author(s): Sylvia Currie, Sylvia Riessner, Gina Bennett, Beth Cougler Blom

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: The FLO Facilitation Guide is a companion resource for the five facilitating learning online courses. It is designed to help individuals prepare and facilitate these courses as well as any courses that emphasize facilitating in a community of learners and supporting collaboration and reflective practice. The guide was written by experienced FLO facilitators and learning designers and includes exemplary contributions to the courses, instructions, ideas, materials, and facilitation tips and strat...[more]

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• Pressbooks Guide

  Author(s): Lauri Aesoph, BCcampus

  Updated: Oct 1, 2019

  Description: This Pressbooks Guide does not replicate information provided by the Pressbooks Userguide published by Pressbooks.com. Instead, in parts and chapters laid out to mimic the steps an author might take to create or modify an open textbook in Pressbooks, it redirects readers to pertinent chapters in the Pressbooks Userguide, supplements it with additional information, and includes instructions specific to post-secondary faculty and staff working in British Columbia and the Yukon.

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• Project Management

  Author(s): Adrienne Watt

  Updated: Sep 30, 2019

  Description: This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out that all projects share. This book has been adapted by the author as of August 15, 2014. The adaptation includes Canadianized content, PowerPoints, Audio Files, and Chapter Questions, which are located in the book's appendixes.

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• Post-Secondary Directory

  Author(s): Lauri M. Aesoph

  Updated: Sep 27, 2019

  Description: This directory is an open educational reference for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia and Canada. The first section focuses on colleges, institutes, and universities in British Columbia and the way each: provides support for its community; uses, creates, and evaluates open educational resources; and engages in open education on campus through events, a working group, and student involvement. The second section lays out open education information for the rest of Canada by province ...[more]

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• Research Methods in Psychology

  Author(s): Paul Price, California State University, Fresno

  Updated: Sep 25, 2019

  Description: While Research Methods in Psychology is fairly traditional— making it easy for you to use with your existing courses — it also emphasizes a fundamental idea that is often lost on undergraduates: research methods are not a peripheral concern in our discipline; they are central. The overarching goal of this textbook is to present the basics of psychological research methods — focusing on the concepts and skills that are most widely shared within the discipline — emphasizing both their centrality...[more]

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• Writing for Success

  Author(s): Scott McLean

  Updated: Sep 25, 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. Beginning with the sentence and its essential elements, this book addresses each concept with clear, concise and effective examples that are immediately reinforced with exercises and opportunities to demonstrate, and reinforce, learning. Each chapter allows your students to demonst...[more]

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• Business Communication for Success

  Author(s): University of Minnesota Libraries' Publishing Services (Adapted version)

  Updated: Sep 25, 2019

  Description: Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. The text includes a number of features such as learning objectives, exercises, real world examples, key terms, and post-chapter assessments. Each chapter is self-contained, allowing for mix-and-match flexibility and custom or course-specific design. The first three chapters form the core foundation for...[more]

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• Principles of Social Psychology - 1st International Edition

  Author(s): Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Dr. Hammond Tarry, Capilano University, Adler School of Professional Psychology, Dr. Charles Stangor, University of Maryland

  Updated: Sep 23, 2019

  Description: The first International edition of this textbook provides students with an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of social psychology from an interactionist perspective. The presentation of classic studies and theories are balanced with insights from cutting-edge, contemporary research. An emphasis on real world examples and applications is intended to guide students to critically analyze their situations and social interactions in order to put their knowledge to effective use.

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• Korean Through Folktales

  Author(s): KyungAh Yoon, Portland State University

  Updated: Sep 23, 2019

  Description: Korean Through Folktales consists of four chapters and each centers on a famous Korean folktale. The lessons and values that famous folktales teach are embedded and permeated in various aspects of the Koran culture. Using folktales in the curriculum will provide an engaging way to expose students to a slice of the target culture that native Koreans are naturally exposed to at an early age. Through the selected folktales and various activities offered in the book, students can gain cultural know...[more]