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Connections: Composition I (Clayton State University)
Jennifer Parrott, Matthew Sansbury, Mary Lamb, Sipai Klein, Margaret Fletcher, and Jim Rickerson
This open textbook for Composition I courses was developed under a Round 19 Transformation Grant. The text focuses on connected writing, addressing topics including writing processes, academic honesty, rhetorical reading responses, and personal essays.
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Contested Visions: The History of Western Civilization from 1648
J. Franklin Williamson and Thomas Aiello
This open textbook for History of Western Civilization courses was developed as a result of a Round 14 Textbook Transformation Grant. Chapters include the Protestant Reformation, The Enlightenment, The French Revolution & the Reign of Terror, The Industrial Revolution, The First World War, The Russian Revolution, and The Second World War & the Holocaust.
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Contribute a Verse: An Introduction to First-Year Composition (all rights reserved)
Tanya Long Bennett, Donna Gessell, and Diana Edelman-Young
This textbook is not an open textbook. Affordable Learning Georgia has a special agreement with the University of North Georgia Press to make this text free to download for a limited time. Remixes and mass redistribution are not allowed in this agreement.
Author's Description:
In response to the Affordable Learning Georgia initiative, Dr. Tanya Bennett and ten colleagues from the University of North Georgia have written Contribute a Verse: A Guide to First Year Composition. This peer reviewed textbook, published by the University of North Georgia Press, combines a composition rhetoric manual with grammar and documentation instruction and resources, components that can be flexibly arranged to fit instructors’ classroom plans.
It includes a standard rhetoric instruction, information and practice for Standard English Grammar, and guidelines for the four most common documentation styles. Its reader compiles essays compiled for English 1101, focused for thematic discussion and selected for use in rhetorical analysis. The textbook also includes a glossary of pertinent terms and ancillary instructor resources.
Its contents include Reading Critically/Engaging the Material; Rhetorical Situations; Effective Argument; Introductions and Conclusions; Logic of Assertion, Evidence, and Interpretation; Documentation; Visual Rhetoric; Multi-Modality; Inter-disciplinary Writing; and Grammar.
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Dalton State College APEX Calculus
Thomas Gonzalez, Michael Hilgemann, and Jason Schmurr
This text for Analytic Geometry and Calculus I, II, and III is a Dalton State College remix of APEX Calculus 3.0. The text was created through a Round Six ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
Topics covered in this text include:
- Limits
- Derivatives
- Integration
- Antidifferentiation
- Sequences
- Vectors
Files can also be downloaded on the Dalton State College GitHub:
https://github.com/DaltonStateCollege/calculus-text/blob/master/Calculus.pdf
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Digital Design in Engineering Lab Manual
Mohammad Ahad, Rami Haddad, and Thomas Murphy
This lab manual for Digital Design was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Topics covered include VHDL designs, combinational circuits, oscilloscope measurements, state machines, machine design and testing, and practical sequential circuits
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Dress Appearance and Diversity
Addie Martindale, Virginia Rolling, Nikki Cannon-Rech, Autumn Johnson, and Deborah Walker
This open LibGuides-based textbook for Dress Appearance and Diversity was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant.
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Economic History and Medical History Ancillary Materials
Bronson Long, Jayme Feagin, Jeff Brown, and Brian Armstrong
This collection of educational resources for Economic History and Medical History was created under an Affordable Materials Grant.
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Econ Reimagined: Interactive Tools for Principles of Microeconomics
Shelby D. Frost, J. Todd Swarthout, Mya Eveland, and Amy Eremionkhale
This set of practice questions, quizzes, and learning management system-ready SCORM teaching resources was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. The Econ Reimagined website also includes scholarship on the creation and implementation of these resources at Georgia State University.
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eCore Accessible Open Textbooks (Fall 2019)
Georgia Institute of Technology
This collection consists of accessible copies of open textbooks used by eCore, Georgia's Online Core Curriculum, as of Fall 2019. The textbooks were made accessible for screen readers by the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Through CIDI, basic accessibility features have been checked, edited, and/or added to these texts: optical character recognition and auto-tagged header structures.
Due to an accessibility glitch in the repository platform, all accessible texts are downloadable under Additional Files. The primary link on this page points to eCore's course descriptions, where all open textbooks for courses are listed.
Included in this collection are accessible copies of the following open textbooks:
- ARTS 1100: Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning
- CHEM 1211, CHEM 1212: OpenStax Chemistry
- COMM 1100: Communication in the Real World (A Primer on Communication Studies)
- ECON 2105: OpenStax Principles of Macroeconomics
- ENGL 2111: World Literature I: Beginnings to 1650
- ENGL 2132: Writing the Nation
- ENVS 2202: OpenStax Concepts of Biology
- ETEC 1101: Information Systems for Business and Beyond
- GEOL 1121: Laboratory Manual for Introductory Geology
- HIST 1111: World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500
- HIST 2111: History in the Making
- MATH 1101: Intermediate Algebra
- MATH 1111: OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry
- MATH 1401: CNX Collaborative Statistics
- MATH 1501: OpenStax Calculus Volume 1
- MUSC 1100: Understanding Music: Past and Present
- PHYS 2211: OpenStax University Physics Volume 1
- PHYS 2212: OpenStax University Physics Volume 2
- POLS 1101: The Basics of American Government
- PSYC 1101: OpenStax Psychology
- SOCI 1101: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology
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Educational Learning Theories: 2nd Edition
Molly Zhou and David Brown
This open textbook was the result of a remix of pre-existing open materials collected and reviewed by Molly Zhou and David Brown. Learning theories covered include the theories of Piaget, Bandura, Vygotsky, Kohlberg, Dewey, Bronfenbrenner, Eriksen, Gardner, Bloom, and Maslow. The textbook was revised in 2018 through a Round Ten Revisions and Ancillary Materials Mini-Grant.
Topics covered include:
- Behaviorism
- Cognitive Development
- Social Cognitive Theory
- Experiential Learning Theory
- Human Motivation Theory
- Information Processing Theory
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Elementary Spanish I & II Interactive eBook
Dennis Miller
This open textbook for Elementary Spanish I & II was created under an Affordable Materials Grant. The text was created using the open-source H5P platform. Topics focus on vocabulary and verb conjunctions.
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Elementary Statistics MyOpenMath Course
Dawit Aberra, Samuel Cartwright, Bhavana Burell, and Fesseha Gebremikael
This open course within MyOpenMath was created and revised under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Download the Word doc linked on the following page for instructions on how to access the course within MyOpenMath.
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Elementary Statistics (University of West Georgia)
James Bellon
This open textbook for Elementary Statistics was created under an Affordable Materials Grant.
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El Futuro: Intermediate Spanish I
Dennis Miller and Darren Broome
This open textbook for Intermediate Spanish I was created under an Affordable Materials Grant.
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English Composition I and II
Melissa Ianetta, Andy Frazee, Suchismita Dutta, Marlee Givens, and Liz Holdsworth
This open educational resource for ENGL 1101 and 1102 was developed under an ALG Round 22 grant. The WOVENText OER emphasizes rhetoric, process, and multimodality (written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal communication) in composition.
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Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition
Barbara Tucker, Kristin Barton, Amy Burger, Jerry Drye, Cathy Hunsicker, Amy Mendes, and Matthew LeHew
Instructors: The Fourth Edition includes a set of test banks which are not available to the public. For access to these resources, please contact Dr. Barbara Tucker at btucker@daltonstate.edu.
This Open Textbook for Public Speaking was first created under a Round Three ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Since then, the book has undergone three new editions.
Authors' Description:
4th Edition: Changes to be added here soon.
3rd Edition:
Exploring Public Speaking: The Free College Public Speaking Textbook began as the brainchild of Dr. Kris Barton, Chair of the Department of Communication at Dalton State College. It also was made possible through a generous Textbook Transformation Grant in 2015 from Affordable Learning Georgia, a highly successful program of the University System of Georgia. Dr. Barton asked me to help him author/compile the text.
The goal was to provide a high-quality, usable, accessible, and low-cost textbook for the hundreds of students who take COMM 1110 at Dalton State College every year. This course is required of all degree-seeking students. We have been able to save students hundreds of thousands of dollars already with this text. Unexpectedly and happily, the text has also been downloaded close to 14,000 times (as of August 2018) all over the world and has been adopted at many other institutions.
Dr. Barton and I worked on creating the textbook from July 2015 until May 2016, with the goal of going live with the text in Summer of 2016. Tragically Dr. Barton passed away in early May, a reality that still does not seem real. He has been greatly missed as a friend, colleague, father, scholar, teacher, and mentor.
The launch of the book proceeded; however, due to the loss of Dr. Barton, the ancillaries were not finished. In Summer 2017 I took on a significant revision and updating which I named the Second Edition. I included in that edition information on college student success in the appendices. In January 2018, a colleague, Matthew LeHew, and I won a grant from the University System to create the ancillaries and improve the format for more accessibility. I decided to remove the “Dalton State” from the title and most examples for wider appeal. An appendix on library research retains the information for specific use of Roberts Library on our campus.
Over 90% of the book is original with Dr. Barton, me, or other colleagues at Dalton State College. Some parts, specifically from Chapters 9, 10, and 15, are adapted from another open resource public speaking text whose author prefers not to be cited.
This Third Edition, along with including necessary updates and being formatted with different software, includes four more appendices: one on online speaking, one on APA, one on humor and storytelling in public speaking, and one on Dalton State’s Library. I have also tried to clarify concepts, to provide “case studies” to show the rhetorical process, and include more outlines and examples.
We think this book is especially useful in coverage of PowerPoint, audience responsiveness, ethics in public speaking, special occasion speeches, and structure of speeches. Three ancillaries are available: electronic “flash cards” for study, Powerpoints on the 15 main chapters, and test banks for the 15 main chapters.
Thank you for downloading Exploring Public Speaking, and the co-authors and I truly wish you happy teaching and learning with it. We welcome input. If you choose to use it, let us know at btucker@daltonstate.edu.
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Exploring Public Speaking: Columbus State University Custom Version
Barbara Tucker, Benjamin Baker, Danna Gibson, Youngrak Park, Ramesh Rao, Tiffany McBride, and Bruce Getz
This PDF version of the fourth edition of Exploring Public Speaking from Dalton State College is a customized revision by a Columbus State University team under an Affordable Learning Materials Grant.
The custom materials in each chapter pertains specifically to the students of CSU, including library-specific, region-specific, and department-specific information.
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Fashion Fundamentals and Social Psychological Aspects of Dress
Addie Martindale, Virginia Rolling, Nikki Cannon-Rech, Autumn Johnson, and Deborah Walker
This open LibGuides-based textbook for Fashion Fundamentals and Social Psychological Aspects of Dress was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant.
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Foundations of Biology Lab Manual (Georgia Highlands College)
Jacqueline Belwood, Brandy Rogers, and Jason Christian
This revision of the Georgia Highlands College Laboratory Manual for Foundations of Biology was made possible through a Round Twelve ALG Mini-Grant for Ancillary Materials and Revisions. Lab exercises include:
- The Scientific Method
- Organic Molecules
- Microscopy
- Cell Structure & Function
- Enzyme Function
- Cellular Respiration and Exercise
- Isolation of Photosynthetic Pigments
- DNA Extraction from Strawberries
- Gel Electrophoresis, Restriction Enzymes Fingerprinting
- Mitosis & Meiosis
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Fundamentals of Cell Biology
Shoshana Katzman, Jennifer Hurst-Kennedy, Alessandra Barrera, Jennell Talley, and Rebecca Higgins
This textbook, a remix of other open educational resources, is developed through a Round 15 Textbook Transformation Grant. Chapters include:
- Cytoskeleton
- DNA Packaging and Chromosomes
- Transcription and mRNA Modification
- Translation
- Transcriptional Regulation
- Cell and Organelle Membrane Structure
- Transport Across Cellular Membranes
- The Electrochemical Gradient
- Protein Trafficking
- Vesicles in the Endomembrane System
- Principles of Cell Signaling
- GPCRs and RTKs
- Cell Cycle and its Regulation
- DNA Replication
- Cell Death and Cancer
- Stem Cells
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General Psychology: An Introduction
Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee
The NOBA Project is a growing collection of expert-authored, open-licensed modules in psychology, funded by the Diener Education Fund. From these open modules, Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee created an arranged open textbook for her introductory psychology class. This textbook was created under a Round One ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.
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General Zoology Laboratory Manual
Kimberly Subacz and Jason Christian
This lab manual for General Zoology was created under a Round Twelve ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. The manual contains six individual labs to be completed within a laboratory, along with a collection project to be completed outdoors with an instructor.
Topics include:
- Classification and Evolution
- The Planaria Project
- Introduction to Invertebrates
- Introduction to Chordates
- Vertebrates Continued
- Mammalogy
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Genetics Laboratory Manual
Merry Clark, April Cole, Emily Blalock, and Katie Bridges
This laboratory manual for Genetics was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. Topics covered include cell cycle mutations, cancer detection, cytogenetics, forensics, and mapping chromosomes.
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Georgia Tech First-Year Seminar
Lacy Hodges and Fred Rascoe
Authors' Description:
"This ebook has been created and designed to introduce incoming Georgia Tech students to campus resources, Georgia Tech culture and traditions, and to provide you with guidance as you make the transition to Georgia Tech.
This online resource includes materials that coordinate with the six GT 1000 learning outcomes. It covers:
- University Culture and Campus Resources
- Academic Success and Time Management Skills
- Career Development Skills
- Major Exploration and Planning
- Communication and Relational Skills
This resource includes readings, videos, and assignments that have been designed specifically to help new Tech students on their journey to academic, personal, and professional success."
This Open Textbook for GT 1000 was created under a Round Nine Textbook Transformation Grant. The web version of the text is available on the GT 1000 Textbook Website.
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Global Business (GSU)
Jacobus Boers, Daniel Le, Zoe Salloom, Valora Richardson, Tracy Adkins, and Linda Carter
This open textbook for Global Business was developed through a Round 14 Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics covered include the global context of business, currency, supply chains, legal systems, culture and values, financial markets, economic complexity, global value chains, experts, and global competition.
A revision of Global Business is currently in development to include the effects of a pandemic on geopolitical and supply-chain dynamics.
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