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116 results for ‘biology’

Drawing is Seeing

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): David DeRoche

Editor(s): Alishia Huntoon

Last updated: 14/07/2025

A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Alise Lamoreaux, Grecia E. Garcia Perez, Ashley Duran

Editor(s): Grecia E. Garcia Perez, Ashley Duran

Subject(s): Higher education, tertiary education

Last updated: 14/07/2025

A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives. The Chemeketa Community College version provides Chemeketa students a more in depth look at some student services that they can access. The Chemeketa version also expands on pre-existing chapters of the original textbook, A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students, by giving examples of how services at Chemeketa work for students and provides them tips on how to navigate the services to be successful at Chemeketa.

Non-traditional students face critical issues surrounding participation and success in college. These critical issues include, but are not limited to, the following

  • Strategies for managing competing needs on their time
  • Difficulty navigating institutional environments
  • Understanding the culture of college
  • Transitional services not in place to the same degree as for “traditional” students
  • Knowledgeable support systems
  • Personal barriers
  • Unpredictable influences on their schedules
  • Work first, study second priorities
  • Paying for college
  • Underprepared foundation skills (Reading, Writing, Math, Computer Literacy, Human Relations, Oral Communication).

Most textbooks available on the topic of college transition/success today focus on the traditional 18-year old student and the needs of someone living away from home for the first time.The goal of the book is to help students understand how to select the right college for them and then become acquainted with the inner workings and language of college. The book is designed to be a practical guide for first-generation college students as they navigate potentially unfamiliar topics such as understanding the costs of college beyond tuition, navigating college websites, and defining critical language needed to understand communication regarding the context and culture of the college.

Foundations of Education: A Collective Reimagining

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Lisa AbuAssaly George, Dr. Kanoe Bunney, Ceci De Valdenebro, Tanya Mead

Editor(s): Jennifer Margolis

Subject(s): Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

Last updated: 11/07/2025

This dynamic and equity-focused Open Educational Resource serves as a multifaceted textbook for Foundations of Education courses in post secondary institutions. Order a print copy: https://www.lulu.com/shop/tanya-mead-and-ceci-de-valdenebro-and-kanoe-bunney-and-lisa-abuassaly-george/foundations-of-education/paperback/product-nvdj9y2.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Principles of Earth Science

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  1 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Katharine Solada, K. Sean Daniels

Subject(s): Earth sciences, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere

Last updated: 09/07/2025

This book has been designed to serve students who are taking Earth Science as a requirement for their science credit at Linn Benton Community College. We cover the following topics as a Earth Science survey: The Nature of Science, Basic Astronomy, the Rock Cycle and the three major rock types, Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Components of the Hydrological Cycle (Rivers, Groundwater, Oceans, Glaciers), Weather, and Earth Systems and Humans. Much of the material in this book was borrowed from O.E.R. sources provided by Karla Panchuk at Saskatchewan BC (Physical Geology, 1st edition), and Steven Earle (Physical Geology, 2nd Edition). We modified some chapter content from the preexisting OERs, as well as wrote and compiled chapters 1 and 17 in an attempt to relate students more with the sciences. We hope that you enjoy this free educational resource!

Introduction to Human Sexuality

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Ericka Goerling, PhD, Emerson Wolfe, MS

Subject(s): Psychology, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Psychology of gender, Psychology: sexual behaviour

Institution(s): Portland Community College

Last updated: 25/06/2025

This is an introductory human sexuality textbook.

Difference, Power, and Discrimination in Film and Media: Student Essays

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Students at Linn-Benton Community College

Subject(s): Media studies, Film history, theory or criticism, Media studies: TV and society

Publisher: Linn-Benton Community College

Last updated: 10/06/2025

An open pedagogy project of student-authored essays to help readers, particularly high school and college students interested in movies and television, develop a better understanding of the ways that narrative media like movies and television represent issues of difference, power, and discrimination in American culture, both today and in the past. Authors are students in English 223: Difference, Power, and Discrimination in Film course at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon taught by Dr. Stephen Rust.

TPW: Technical & Professional Writing

CC BY (Attribution)  18 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Will Fleming

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides

Institution(s): Linn-Benton Community College

Publisher: Linn-Benton Community College

Last updated: 04/06/2025

An open textbook that gives students an overview of the kinds of writing they’ll be expected to do in upper-level college courses, the workplace, and beyond. The book covers the main elements of technical communication and provides students opportunities to put those elements into practice. It explores how writers locate, create, and deliver technical information. This course and this textbook will provide you instruction and practice in writing documents commonly used in the workplace, such as emails, memos, and letters, as well as employment documents, such as resumes and cover letters. You will also learn about writing descriptions, summaries, instructions, proposals, and various technical reports. You will learn about the importance of audience and purpose in technical communication, how to choose a format and style appropriate for your specific audience and purpose, and how to work collaboratively.

MHCC Biology 112: Biology for Health Professions

CC BY (Attribution)  133 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Dr. Lisa Bartee, Jack Brook

Subject(s): Biology, life sciences

Last updated: 06/05/2025

Biology textbook based on the OpenStax biology book.

Microbiology Laboratory Manual

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Emilie Miller, Ph.D

Editor(s): Emilie Miller, Ph.D

Subject(s): Microbiology (non-medical)

Institution(s): Columbia Gorge Community College

Last updated: 30/04/2025

Oregon EMS Psychomotor Skills Lab Manual

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Chris Hamper, BS, NRP, Carmen Curtz, Paramedic, BS, Holly A. Edwins, Paramedic, B.S., Jamie Kennel, PhD, MAS, NRP

Editor(s): Michele Claassen, Paramedic, Kristin Whitman, MLIS MACI

Subject(s): Accident and emergency medicine

Institution(s): Oregon Institute of Technology, Blue Mountain Community College, Mt. Hood Community College

Last updated: 28/04/2025