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Computer Organization

Anastasia Angelopoulou, Rania Hodhod, Sukjin Lee, Linqiang Ge, and Japheth Koech

This open textbook for Computer Organization was developed as a result of a Round 18 Transformation Grant at Columbus State University.
Computing for Engineers Open Textbook

Salman Siddiqui, Rami J. Haddad, Deborah Walker, and Dawn N. Cannon-Rech

This Open Textbook for Computing for Engineers was created under an Affordable Materials Grant. Topics covered include Introduction to Engineering Problem-Solving, Variables and Arrays, Array Operations and Built-in Functions, Intro to plotting & Debugging, Logical Data Types, and Structured Programming.
Concepts of Fitness and Wellness, 3rd Edition

Lisa Jellum, Scott Flynn, Jonathan Howard, Althea Moser, David Mathis, Christin Collins, Sharryse Henderson, and Connie Watjen

This open textbook for Concepts of Fitness and Wellness at Georgia Highlands College was created through a Round Seven ALG Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics covered include:
1. Healthy Behaviors
2. Fitness Principles
3. Cardiorespiratory Fitness
4. Muscular Fitness
5. Flexibility
6. Body Composition
7. Nutrition
8. Weight Management
9. Stress
10. Cardiovascular Disease
11. Cancer
12. Substance Use and Abuse
13. Sexually Transmitted Infections
2019 Revision Notes:

"It was found that although the free textbook had been well received by students, there were integral elements found in traditional textbooks that were absent from the free offering and were necessary to support the instruction of the course.

Accordingly, supporting components such as chapter overview mini-lectures, terminology checklists, homework test questions, and PowerPoint presentations were developed."

Accessible files with optical character recognition (OCR) and auto-tagging provided by the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation.
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.
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.
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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Criminal Evidence Open Course

Cyntoria Johnson, Sonyja George, Marquisa Jenkins, and Abby Greenbaum

Authors' Description: This Libguides-based course provides a general overview of the law of evidence applicable to the adjudication of criminal cases. The course examines the criminal justice trial process and traces the historical development of the basic evidentiary rules and standards used in criminal proceedings. Students will analyze the rules and procedures governing the collection, admissibility and presentation of evidence. We will examine the rights afforded under the United States Constitution and the rules of evidence set forth by the Federal Rules of Evidence as well as various state law distinctions. Specific topics of discussion will include, but are not limited to, relevance, witness competency, privileges, the exclusionary rule, hearsay and its exceptions.
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
Digital Textbook for Principles of Chemistry II

Antara Dutta, Ahmed Abdullah Baosman Dr., Shalini Jain, Maher Atteya, Jeremy Speed-Schwartz, and Michael Nelson

Authors' Description: This digital textbook for students taking Principles of Chemistry II course integrates core concepts and competencies throughout the curriculum, focuses on student-centered learning, and employs relevant, interactive, effective, collaborative, outcome-oriented, engaging learning materials. Topics include physical states and phase changes, solutions, reaction rates, equilibrium, acids and bases, solubility, free energy, and electric potential.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Elementary Statistics (University of West Georgia)

James Bellon

This open textbook for Elementary Statistics was created under an Affordable Materials Grant.
El Futuro: Intermediate Spanish I

Dennis Miller and Darren Broome

This open textbook for Intermediate Spanish I was created under an Affordable Materials Grant.
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.
English Composition Open Textbook

Rebecca Flynn, Tamara Powell, Jeanne Law, Rebecca Cooper, Tom Lilly, Mark Partridge, and Jessica Estep
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.
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.
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