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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, such as emails, memos, and progress reports. Students learn about writing descriptions, summaries, instructions, and various technical. In addition, students learn the importance of audience and purpose in technical communication and how to choose a format and style appropriate for their project goals.

Visit https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/techmath2ereader/ for a revised version of this online textbook that handles text to speech better. This developmental-level mathematics textbook is intended for career-technical students. It is FREE online and costs $17.35 in print plus shipping; don't get tricked into paying for access! The approach is conversational—inviting rather than intimidating—and many of the examples are drawn from everyday life rather than from the technical trades. Practice assignments are available on the MyOpenMath platform. Order a print copy: https://www.lulu.com/shop/morgan-chase/technical-mathematics/paperback/product-gjvy7eg.html

A revised edition of this book is available via https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/techmath2ereaderThis developmental-level mathematics textbook is intended for career-technical students. Order a print copy: https://www.lulu.com/shop/morgan-chase/technical-mathematics/paperback/product-gpw5kz.html

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.

Second edition available: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/beginningexcel19/

This Beginning Excel textbook is intended for use in a one-term introductory spreadsheet course for all majors taught at two-year colleges. The basics of Excel, as they apply to the professional workplace, are introduced, including spreadsheet design, data entry, formulas, functions, charts, tables, and multi-sheet use.

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Welcome to Explorations 1: Grammar for the Experienced Beginner. This English grammar textbook was designed for a class of Clackamas Community College (CCC) ESOL students who need only a review of the BE verb and are ready to learn the simple present and present progressive tenses. This textbook has four chapters. Each chapter covers a grammatical point/component/element. Chapter 1 is a review of the BE verb. The BE is special and has its own rules (different from other verbs). Chapter 2 is the Present Progressive tense. This is the tense we use when we are talking about things happening now or near now. Chapter 3 is the Simple Present Tense. We use the Simple Present Tense to talk about facts, routines, and habitual activities. Chapter 4 is a comparison of chapter 3 and 4.

Covers hydraulics math, Pascal’s Law, hydraulic schematics, fluid properties, series and parallel hydraulic circuits, regenerative extension, accumulators, flow control valves and flow control methods, pressure control valves, pumps, and electrically controlled hydraulic systems.

Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning takes a pluralistic approach to the standard topics of an introductory microeconomics course.  The text builds on the chiefly neoclassical material of the OpenStax Principles of Economics text, adding extensive content from heterodox economic thought.  Emphasizing the importance of pluralism and critical thinking, the text presents the method and theory of neoclassical economics alongside critiques thereof and heterodox alternatives in both method and theory.  This approach is taken from the outset of the text, where contrasting definitions of economics are discussed in the context of the various ways in which neoclassical and heterodox economists study the subject.  The same approach–of theory and method, critique, and alternative theory theory and method–is taken in the study of consumption, production, and market exchange, as well as in the applied theory chapters.  Historical and contemporary examples are given throughout, and both theory and application are presented with a balanced approach.

This textbook will be of interest especially to instructors and students who wish to go beyond the traditional approach to the fundamentals of microeconomic theory, and explore the wider spectrum of economic thought.

Instructors may contact Open Oregon Educational Resources for quiz question test banks associated with each chapter.

In a series of keynote events from spring 2022 to spring 2023, five globally-recognized educators, curriculum designers, and public scholars presented their vision and practice for designing for justice in open education. Speakers included Dr. Maha Bali, Andratesha Fritzgerald, Jess Mitchell, Dr. Mays Imad, and Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock. The series built momentum for equity-minded design in open education in Oregon and offered interactive and accessible professional development for OER champions at Oregon’s public colleges and universities. To support ongoing engagement with each event, Open Education Instructional Designer Veronica Vold developed this companion guide for individual and group study.

Each speaker takes up distinct themes in designing for justice:

• In “Towards Openness that Promotes Social Justice,” Dr. Maha Bali explores entangled openness, inviting participants to analyze factors of oppression in OER creation and to engage new frameworks for design that Maha developed with colleagues, including the Compassionate Learning Design Model and Intentionally Equitable Hospitality.
• In “Power and Empowerment: Honoring By Decision and Design,” Andratesha Fritzgerald expertly models strategies to increase learner agency while exploring the difference between cultures of honor and cultures of power, arguing that Universal Design for Learning (UDL) must be coupled with anti-racism, a “protective action to design for those on the margins or fringes of success in academia.”
• In “Designing for Equity: Moving Beyond Inclusion 101,” Jess Mitchell advocates for tactical and relational strategies in managing oppressive educational systems, asking instructors to deeply humanize instructor-student relationships whenever possible.
• In “Harnessing the Resilience Within,” Dr. Mays Imad draws on the neurobiology of learning to examine radical implications for instructors and students when we “befriend” our social engagement nervous systems.
• In “Design Justice and Design Pedagogies,” Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock applies Patricia Hill Collins’ matrix of domination in a design justice framework and challenges Oregon’s open education community to put 10 Principles of Design Justice into practice.

Designing for Justice: An Open Education Speaker Series was funded by the federal Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund.