Book Title: Revised Chapter for the Open Curriculum Development Project

Authors: Anne Nichol and Veronica Vold

Book Description: The Revised Chapter for the Open Curriculum Development Project allows authors to tour a chapter from CCJ220 Mental Disorders and the Law by Anne Nichol, criminal justice faculty member at Portland Community College. This revised chapter includes substantial changes from the original. Yet the author hasn’t written an entirely new chapter. Instead, she uses content already created by the original authors as the basis for revision. Her improvements include dividing existing content into topic-specific sections and adding necessary detail, increasing the use of Oregon stories and media, and adding aligned interactives. The author also makes the chapter title specific to her focus on crisis response strategies and aligns learning objectives with this focus. The chapter is annotated with Hypothesis to note the revision strategies that the author incorporated based on the project’s criteria for success. This interactive is accessible to people who use screen reader software.