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Understanding New Media Art

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

Author(s): Elizabeth Bilyeu, Kelsey Ferreira, Luke Peterson, Christine M. Weber

Subject(s): The Arts, Digital, video and new media arts

Institution(s): Portland Community College

Last updated: 05/07/2023

Understanding New Media Art is an OER for introductory college art and art history courses. The book builds on scholarship in the field to propose a long historical context for the technologies and ideas related to New Media Art in the 21st century. This OER is a work in progress and will be updated and expanded periodically as technologies change, new creative approaches and voices develop, and new historical and theoretical frameworks are proposed in the evolving field of New Media Art.

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The Politics of Sports

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

Author(s): Anna Carroll, Eleanor Wakefield

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides

Last updated: 06/06/2023

Editors Carroll and Eleanor Wakefield draw on their experience guiding students to investigate sports critically and develop rich, complex research questions and related writing projects. The result is an introduction to the politics of sports as an area of inquiry that prompts students to engage with topics that may already seem familiar (and, for some students, some that are entirely new) to develop critical thinking and writing skills. When students read interesting articles, have engaging conversations, and are invited to question their assumptions about sports, they learn to think critically, write better papers, and actively engage the rhetorical concepts that will prepare them for future academic writing.

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The Culture of Science

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Author(s): Steve Rust, Jenée Wilde

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides

Last updated: 18/05/2023

The casebook offers five reading units organized thematically around significant questions at issue. Reading Unit 1 grounds students in contemporary questions of science and its boundaries, offering a blend of dense and approachable readings intended to spark class conversations on the topic of scientific culture. Units 2 and 3 extend discourses on scientific culture into areas of critical analysis such as gender, race and ethnicity, religion, ethics, and colonialism, as well as examining issues of language and perception. Unit 4 focuses on basic questions of fact, definition, and interpretation by exploring the discourse surrounding anomalies, pseudoscience, and skepticism, making it particularly useful for reviewing and extending students’ understanding of skills learned in Writing 121. Finally, Unit 5 offers a case study on Frankenstein as a techno-moral lesson on overreaching ambition and how it applies to scientific culture today. While the Table of Contents is organized thematically, many readings have cross-unit (and cross-disciplinary) connections and relevance. We encourage instructors to make use of the Alternative Table of Contents and to feel welcome to assign the entire casebook in your courses and/or to use individual readings or units as launching points for individual and team research projects. Supplementary teaching resources can be found in the casebook bibliography.

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General Physics Remote Lab Manual

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Lawrence Davis

Last updated: 09/05/2023

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Introduction to Finding Information

CC BY (Attribution)  26 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Kirsten Hostetler

Last updated: 16/03/2023

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Technical Writing at LBCC

CC BY (Attribution)  2 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Will Fleming

Subject(s): Writing and editing guides

Publisher: Linn-Benton Community College

Last updated: 10/03/2023

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 and how to choose a format and style appropriate for your specific audience and purpose. You will also have an opportunity to work collaboratively with your classmates.

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ENG 106

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Author(s): Leigh Hancock

Subject(s): Poetry

Publisher: Good Words Unlimited

Last updated: 25/01/2023

An Introduction to Poetry is an abridged, excerpted guide for a first college course in poetry. Assuming a student whose understanding of the subject has not made it beyond prejudices about “openness of interpretation,” “expression of feeling,” and “emptiness of meaning,” this text uses written lectures  to guide the student through the tricky question of interpretation, the understanding and use of poetic elements, the valley of forms and non-forms and finally into the use of poetry for protest, resistance and empowerment.  Each chapter is designed to occupy one week of a full-semester course.

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Intercultural Communication for the Community College (Second Edition)

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Author(s): Karen Krumrey

Last updated: 04/01/2023

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Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application, v. 1.0

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)  61 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Alice Callahan, PhD, Heather Leonard, MEd, RDN, Tamberly Powell, MS, RDN

Subject(s): Dietetics and nutrition

Last updated: 06/12/2022

This book is designed as an OER text and learning resource for undergraduate students enrolled in FN 225 Nutrition at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. The book covers basic nutrition and metabolism, information literacy, energy balance, nutrition across life stages, dietary supplements, an in-depth look at each of the macronutrients, and major functions of vitamins and minerals.
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Academic Integrity

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  51 H5P Activities    English (Canada)

Author(s): Ulrike Kestler

Publisher: Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Last updated: 31/10/2022

After working through the Academic Integrity pressbook, students will be able to explain the six fundamental values of academic integrity, identify unethical academic behaviours, and will be familiar with the university’s policy and procedures for academic integrity violations. They will have developed an understanding of plagiarism as a form of misrepresentation, will be able to describe how citations work and will be aware of quoting and paraphrasing properly as well as of good note-taking practices. Students will be able to explain the university services available to them if they need assistance with their work.