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This book is designed as an Open Education Resource (OER) for introductory nutrition courses and has been adopted for use in high schools and colleges. Topics covered include basic nutrition and metabolism, information literacy, body weight and health, nutrition across life stages, dietary supplements, an in-depth look at each of the macronutrients, and major functions of vitamins and minerals. The second edition of Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application was released in August 2022. The second edition includes a fully revised Unit 7 (Body Weight and Health) and minor revisions to Unit 10 (Nutrition and Physical Activity). In June 2023, Unit 2 (Nutrition Science and Information Literacy) was significantly updated along with the ancillary materials for Unit 2. The remainder of the OER and the accompanying ancillary materials are the same as the first edition, originally published in December 2020. Order a print copy: https://www.lulu.com/shop/tamberly-powell-and-heather-leonard-and-alice-callahan/nutrition-science-and-everyday-application/paperback/product-42p62y.html?page=1&pageSize=4

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Hispanic Origins of Oregon documents more than 250 years of the early history of the Oregon Territory, thanks to documents produced by officers and crew members of Hispanic naval expeditions. It is a work of particular historical relevance, as it not only documents a little-known period in the history of Oregon and the United States, but is also the first academic work about the history of Oregon to be published in Spanish and English in the nation.