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BI102: Survey of Molecular Life and Genetics is intended for one term of the introductory biology course for non-science majors taught at many two- and four-year colleges. The concepts of genetics, as they apply to the study of life, are introduced, including the principles of inheritance, genetics, and gene regulation.

This textbook incorporates the mandates found in Vision and Change and focuses on the non-content aspects of biology education that are just as important. Additionally, this book explicitly teaches the general education outcomes that we have identified as important for this class. This textbook pulls together biology content resources that are accessible for our community college non-major biology students, as well as resources to provide them with explicit instruction in the quantitative literacy, communication, and information literacy general education outcomes as they relate to the biology content they are learning.

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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.

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

This training from Open Oregon Educational Resources is designed to orient Revising Authors to the skills and strategies necessary to meet Targeted Pathways equity-minded outputs: student-centered textbooks that fully integrate with dynamic courses. This training includes five modules of asynchronous content. Each module builds toward a synchronous learning opportunity to join with fellow Revising Authors to assess skills and knowledge of concepts.

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.

This remixed Open Educational Resource textbook provides an exploration of educational learning theories. The chapters include a scenario that center the learning theories on student experiences.

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.

This book contains favorite stories about Oregon from ESOL News Oregon (http://www.tinyurl.com/esolnewsoregon) prepared specifically for advanced ESOL students. Each story contains an image or video; graded text; self-scoring exercises for vocabulary and comprehension practice; discussion prompts, and writing prompts.

This book contains favorite stories about Oregon from ESOL News Oregon (http://www.tinyurl.com/esolnewsoregon) prepared specifically for intermediate ESOL students. Each story contains an image or video; graded text; self-scoring exercises for vocabulary and comprehension practice; discussion prompts, and writing prompts.