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• Understanding Document Accessibility

  Author(s): Digital Education Strategies, The Chang School

  Updated: Feb 3, 2020

  Description: With much of the world gone digital, learning to create documents that are accessible to everyone is becoming a necessary skill. Intended for a general audience, this free resource reviews a wide range of document authoring applications, including the tools they contain for creating accessible documents, and tests them to ensure they do not contain potential barriers. Learn how to create accessible word processed documents, spreadsheets, presentation slides, and PDF documents, among others, so ...[more]

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• Human Nutrition

  Author(s): University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program

  Updated: Jan 29, 2020

  Description: This open textbook was developed as an introductory nutrition resource to reflect the diverse dietary patterns of people in Hawai‘’i and the greater Pacific. It serves as an introduction to nutrition for undergraduate students and is the OER textbook for the FSHN 185 The Science of Human Nutrition course at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. The book covers basic concepts in human nutrition, key information about essential nutrients, basic nutritional assessment, and nutrition across the lifes...[more]

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• EmpoWord: A Student-Centered Anthology & Handbook for College Writers

  Author(s): Shane Abrams, Portland State University

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and instruct their successors: the students in your class. Through both creative and traditional activities, readers are encouraged to explore a variety of rhetorical situations to become more critical agents of reading, writing, speaking, and listening in all facets...[more]

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• Organizational Behavior (OpenStax)

  Author(s): J. Stewart Black, David S. Bright, Donald G. Gardner, Eva Hartmann, et al.

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: This OpenStax resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. An array of recurring features engages students in entrepreneurial thinking, managing change, using tools/technology, and responsible management; furthermore, the unique chapter on Social Media and Communication contextualizes the importance...[more]

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• Physical Geology

  Author(s): Steven Earle, Thompson Rivers University

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: THIS BOOK WILL BE ARCHIVED ON October 1, 2020, AS IT HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW EDITION. Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological hi...[more]

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• Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know

  Author(s): Susan E. Lowey, The College at Brockport, SUNY

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation for the professional registered nurse student. Recent studies show that only one in four nurses feel confident in caring for dying patients and their families and less than 2% of overall content in nursing textbooks is related to end-of-life care, despite the tremendous growth in palliative and end-of-life care programs across the country. The purpose of this textb...[more]

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• Strategies for Academic Success

  Author(s): Liv Marken, University of Saskatchewan

  Updated: Jan 28, 2020

  Description: Strategies for Academic Success accompanies the first-year University of Saskatchewan College of Arts and Science online course by the same name. However, the information it contains will apply to post-secondary institutions all over. The textbook has a reader-friendly format arranged to help you develop the essential skills and provide the information you need to succeed in university.

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• Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom

  Author(s): Melissa Tombro, SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology

  Updated: Jan 21, 2020

  Description: Teaching Autoethnography: Personal Writing in the Classroom is dedicated to the practice of immersive ethnographic and autoethnographic writing that encourages authors to participate in the communities about which they write. This book draws not only on critical qualitative inquiry methods such as interview and observation, but also on theories and sensibilities from creative writing and performance studies, which encourage self-reflection and narrative composition. Concepts from qualitative in...[more]

• Introduction to Psychology - 1st Canadian Edition

  Author(s): Jennifer Walinga, Royal Roads University, Charles Stangor, University of Maryland

  Updated: Jan 20, 2020

  Description: This book is designed to help students organize their thinking about psychology at a conceptual level. The focus on behaviour and empiricism has produced a text that is better organized, has fewer chapters, and is somewhat shorter than many of the leading books. The beginning of each section includes learning objectives; throughout the body of each section are key terms in bold followed by their definitions in italics; key takeaways, and exercises and critical thinking activities end each secti...[more]

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• Neuroscience - Canadian 1st Edition

  Author(s): William Ju, University of Toronto

  Updated: Jan 17, 2020

  Description: Neuroscience - Canadian 1st Edition is a comprehensive source that examines the nervous system, neurodegeneration, techniques in studying neuroscience and emerging topics in the field.