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Psychological Adjustment
Tori Kearns and Deborah Lee
This textbook for Psychological Development was created by Dr. Tori Kearns and Dr. Deborah Lee under a Round Nine Textbook Transformation Grant. Topics covered include:
- Theories of Humanistic and Personality Psychology
- Coping and Mental Illness
- Interpersonal Communication
- Sexuality
- Understanding Gender
- Work and Choosing a Career
- Coping with Death and Loss
- Finding Meaning
The textbook is a collection of 14 course modules, which are available in their original format through LibGuides at East Georgia State College: https://ega.libguides.com/ALGTextPSYC2101
Design modifications were made to the textbook version for accessibility purposes.
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Quantitative Reasoning: A Real World Approach
Janice Alves, Vinavtee Kokil, Kelly Slaten, Jenny Kerven, and Kendrick Savage
This open textbook was developed under a Round 19 Transformation Grant.
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Quantitative Skills and Reasoning
Scott Sykes, James Bellon, Rob Burnham, Kyle Carter, Wesley Gay, and Nathan Rehfuss
This open textbook for quantitative skills and reasoning courses is developed as a result of a Round 17 Textbook Transformation Grant.
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Rabbit Anatomy: A Brief Photographic Atlas
Soma Mukhopadhyay and Lisa Ruggiero-Wagner
This anatomical atlas of a rabbit used for Anatomy and Physiology I & II was created under a Round Twelve Transformation Grant. The atlas is divided into two parts: a muscular atlas and a cardiovascular atlas.
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Research as Inquiry: A Discipline Specific Approach to Information Literacy
Laura Clark-Hunt, Andrew McIntosh, Kennon Deal, Janet Koposko, and Vanessa Lane
This open textbook with a discpline-focused approach to teaching information literacy was developed as part of a Round 18 Continuous Improvement Grant.
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Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences, 5th Edition
Sherry Serdikoff
This adaptation of Saylor Research Methods in Psychology was written under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This edition was developed for courses that integrate statistical analyses with research design, taught within the context of an undergraduate Behavior Analysis (rather than Psychology) program.
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Resonances: Engaging Music in its Cultural Context
Esther Morgan-Ellis, Rebecca Johnston, Arielle Crumley, Alexandra Dunbar, Louis Hajosy, David Peoples, Serena Scibelli, Philip Snyder, Bart Walters, and Marie Graham
Resonances: Engaging Music in Its Cultural Context offers a fresh curriculum for the college-level music appreciation course. The musical examples are drawn from classical, popular, and folk traditions from around the globe. These examples are organized into thematic chapters, each of which explores a particular way in which human beings use music. Topics include storytelling, political expression, spirituality, dance, domestic entertainment, and more. The chapters and examples can be taught in any order, making Resonances a flexible resource that can be adapted to your teaching or learning needs. This textbook is accompanied by a complete set of PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and learning objectives.
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Sociology of Sport
Lisa Jellum, Jason Hitzeman, and Melanie Vincent
This open textbook for Sociology of Sport was developed under a Round 18 Transformation Grant. Ancillary resources include videos and PowerPoint slide decks.
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Steps to Success: A Guide to Excelling in College and Beyond
Jennifer Hurst-Kennedy, Catherine Thomas, Kenan Kurspachic, Rolando Marquez, Cara Werner, and Charlotte Reames
This open textbook for first-year seminar courses was developed under a Round 19 Transformation Grant.
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Successful College Composition (3rd Edition)
Rebecca Weaver, Lynne Bost, Michelle Kassorla, Karen McKinney-Holley, Kathryn Crowther, Lauren Curtright, Nancy Gilbert, Barbara Hall, Tracienne Ravita, and Kirk Swenson
NOTE: The web-hosted Third Edition is currently down at Georgia State University. We have removed this as the primary link until GSU can repair the issue.
Authors' Description:
Third Edition (2019):
We made two significant changes to the textbook: we reformatted it from a PDF to modules within our Learning Management System (iCollege) and as an open-web-based book. The modularized version is downloadable and exportable and will live on the ALG and GSU websites. The web-based book will be ready by August 2019 and will also live on the ALG and GSU websites.
The other significant change we made was to write an instruction manual that provides guidance to who we see as the primary audience for the manual: new composition instructors. In our department, these are newly-hired part-time instructors or full-time teachers returning to teaching composition or who have never taught it before. When we surveyed the faculty about what they wanted from an instruction manual, we got a number of requests for sample papers, but ended up going in the reverse direction for two reasons: first: the department leadership is moving to create an online resource library into which we hope many faculty will put their assignment sheets, exercises, scaffolding, and sequencing.
Second Edition:
This text is a transformation of Writing for Success, a text adapted by The Saylor Foundation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensee.
Kathryn Crowther, Lauren Curtright, Nancy Gilbert, Barbara Hall, Tracienne Ravita, and Kirk Swenson adapted this text under a grant from Affordable Learning Georgia to Georgia Perimeter College (GPC, now part of Georgia State University) in 2015. Section 1.3 was authored by Rebecca Weaver. This text is a revision of a prior adaptation of Writing for Success led by Rosemary Cox in GPC’s Department of English, titled Successful College Writing for GPC Students (2014, 2015).
Writing for Success, as revised by GPC, is not provided here, but it is considered a first edition of the adapted text.
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Survey of Chemistry I
Antara Dutta, Maher Atteya, Jerry Poteat, Julianne Caton-Williams, Stephen Rudy, and Shalini Jain
This Survey of Chemistry I textbook was developed as a result of a Round 12 Textbook Transformation Grant. Chapters include Atoms, Periodic Table, and Energy; Chemical Bonding; Gases; Acids and Bases.
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Survey of Chemistry I
Anne Parker, Farooq Khan, Victoria Geisler, and Douglas Stuart
This collection of the grant proposal, syllabus, and final report for Survey of Chemistry I at University of West Georgia was created under a Round 12 Transformation Grant.
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Survey of Chemistry II LibreTexts Remix
Tanesha Osborne and Dawn N. Cannon-Rech
This remixed textbook for Survey of Chemistry II courses and its ancillary materials were developed under a Round 19 Transformation Grant.
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Survey of Chemistry II Textbook
Anne Gaquere-Parker, Chemera Ivory, and Jubilee Ojibo
This open textbook for chemistry II survey courses was developed as a result of a Round 18 Continuous Improvement Grant.
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Survey of Chemistry II Wikitext
Jonathan Cannon, Estelle Nuckels, Renat Khatmullin, and Andrew Lauer
This open textbook for Survey of Chemistry II includes a remix of ChemWiki readings and Khan Academy videos, configured by unit in a course schedule format.
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Survey of Chemistry I Laboratory Manual
Lori Wilson, Irene Kokkala, Myles Sedgwick, Ana Rumbao, Kaylee Todd, and Theresa Butori
This laboratory manual is designed to provide hands-on learning opportunities that correspond to the lecture component of the course.
Aligned with the established chemistry curriculum, the Survey of Chemistry I Laboratory Manual is an integral component of the first semester in a two-part sequence, to provide students with a foundational understanding of the properties and transformations of matter which has direct applications to healthcare. Through a dynamic blend of activities and interactive digital media, students will delve into inorganic chemistry concepts, including nomenclature, reactions, molecular structures, and more.
With 11 laboratory experiments, the manual addresses critical course topics such as safety protocols, measurement techniques, density calculations, stoichiometry applications, thermochemistry, gas laws, and more. Each lab has embedded questions, serving as checkpoints for understanding and fostering critical thinking. Active participation in these labs will empower students to deepen their grasp of essential chemistry principles. The hands-on nature of the labs further nurtures practical problem-solving abilities, essential skills that will undoubtedly benefit students in their future allied health careers.
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Survey of Engineering Applications from Mathematics
Lin Li, Robert Keyser, and Meng Han
This open textbook for Survey of Engineering Applications was developed as part of a Round 16 Textbook Transformation Grant.
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The Atlanta Sit-Ins (Historical Game)
H. Robert Baker, Marni Davis, Jared Poley, and Jeffrey Young
In this type of historical game, students read from specially designed game books that place them in moments of heightened historical tension. The class becomes a public body, or private gathering; students, in role, become particular persons from the period and/or members of factional alliances. Their purpose is to advance an agenda and achieve victory objectives through formal speeches, informal debate, negotiations, vote taking, and conspiracy. After a few preparatory sessions, the game begins, and the students are in charge. The instructor serves as an adviser and arbiter. Outcomes sometimes vary from the history; a debriefing session sets the record straight.
Authors' Description:
It began, simply enough, with students in a dorm room. Four of them, in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were young, eager to change the world, and were ready to fight against Jim Crow segregation. They were not remarkable. African-American students all over the South were doing the same thing, had been doing the same thing, for some time. But something was different this time. The students decided that they had had enough of waiting around, of polite strategy, and decided to act. They went to the local Woolworth store in downtown Greensboro, and they sat down. They were told they wouldn’t be served, but they stayed put. Simple enough. Within several months, thousands of sit ins were occurring everywhere.
As simple as all this sounds, it was anything but. The students who decided to act had to face their parents, their school administrators, and established civil rights leaders who had their own ideas about how to tackle the indignities of Jim Crow. They faced white businessmen and politicians. They faced the public. And they also faced each other. However united they were in wanting to destroy Jim Crow segregation, they did not always agree on tactics, or even strategy. They had to build consensus. They had to build coalitions. They had to organize and plan and execute. Changing the world, it turns out, required a lot of work.
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The Basics of American Government, Third Edition (all rights reserved)
Carl Cavalli
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:
"The Basics of American Government is a collaborative effort among eight current and one former faculty members in the Departments of Political Science and Criminal Justice at University of North Georgia. The purpose of this book is to offer a no-frills, low-cost, yet comprehensive overview of the American political system for students taking introductory courses in American national government.
Furthermore, the work combines the best aspects of both a traditional textbook and a reader in that most chapters offer a piece of original scholarship as a case study to bolster or reinforce the material presented in the chapter. In addition, many chapters present a civic engagement-type exercise and discussion questions intended to challenge, engage, and foster student participation in the political system.
The authors undertook this project for several reasons, most notably the high costs of textbooks for students and the lack of college-level scholarship found in most American Government texts.
This 470-page, peer-reviewed, edited book that combines traditional material with original scholarship will cost students $27.99, well below market standards. All of the authors are experienced classroom instructors, subject matter experts, and published researchers in the field of American politics."
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The Gordon State College Writing Handbook
Wesley Venus and Mark King
Authors' Description:
Members of the Gordon faculty have collaborated on the authorship of this guide, and it is targeted directly at Gordon students to help them with their writing across the GSC curriculum. This guide provides at least three distinct advantages over other guides: it is specifically targeted to Gordon State students, it covers writing across the whole curriculum, not just English; and it is free.
Many approaches to crafting this guide were entertained, but the authors decided that what students really want from a composition guide are practical examples of writing that they might actually encounter in their classroom experiences at Gordon. Many guides try to do this, but this guide uses real Gordon professors and real Gordon class assignments as a starting point. This results in what we feel is a substantial improvement over other available writing guides.
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The Impact of Open Educational Resources on Various Student Success Metrics
Nicholas Colvard, C. Edward Watson, and Hyojin Park
There are multiple indicators which suggest that completion, quality, and affordability are the three greatest challenges for higher education today in terms of students, student learning, and student success. Many colleges, universities, and state systems are seeking to adopt a portfolio of solutions that address these challenges. This article reports the results of a large-scale study (21,822 students) regarding the impact of course-level faculty adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER). Results indicate that OER adoption does much more than simply save students money and address student debt concerns. OER improve end-of-course grades and decrease DFW (D, F, and Withdrawal letter grades) rates for all students. They also improve course grades at greater rates and decrease DFW rates at greater rates for Pell recipient students, part-time students, and populations historically underserved by higher education. OER address affordability, completion, attainment gap concerns, and learning. These findings contribute to a broadening perception of the value of OERs and their relevance to the great challenges facing higher education today.
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The Roadrunner's Guide to English (2nd Edition)
Jenny Crisp, Lydia Postell, and Melissa Whitesell
Summer 2019 Revision Notes: Due to a project delay, the EPUB and MOBI versions included here are considered Additional Files and currently draft versions of the second edition. More work will be done on these throughout Fall 2019.
Authors' Description:
This online book is designed to help students learn the skills they will need to do well in college-level classes. Some courses will focus on writing, some on reading, and some on a combination of the two; this book is designed to work with all of those classes.
Welcome, students, and remember: a skill is not a magical ability. By that, we mean it can be learned; you don't have to be born "good at" reading or writing. Like any other skill, reading and writing abilities improve through learning the step-by-step process to doing both, and through practice. We hope this book will help you develop your own skills.
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Two Nations, One Land: UNSCOP and the Question of Israel (1947)
D. Jason Slone
This open historical game was created through an ALG Pilot Grant for Developing an Open Historical Game. In this type of historical game, students read from specially designed game books that place them in moments of heightened historical tension. The class becomes a public body, or private gathering; students, in role, become particular persons from the period and/or members of factional alliances. Their purpose is to advance an agenda and achieve victory objectives through formal speeches, informal debate, negotiations, vote taking, and conspiracy. After a few preparatory sessions, the game begins, and the students are in charge. The instructor serves as an adviser and arbiter. Outcomes sometimes vary from the history; a debriefing session sets the record straight.
Authors' Game Description: The setting is Palestine, 1947, where there is violent unrest between the local Arabs of Palestine and “Zionist” Jews. The British have ruled over the territory with a “Mandate” from the League of Nations since the end of WWI, after the Allied Powers dissolved the Ottoman Empire at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and divided the region into small nation-states based on the (secretly written) Sykes-Picot agreement.
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UGA Anatomy and Physiology 1 Lab Manual, 3rd Edition
DeLoris Hesse, Deanna Cozart, Brett Szymik, and Rob Nichols
This lab manual was created for Anatomy and Physiology I at the University of Georgia under a Textbook Transformation Grant and revised through a Scaling Up OER Pilot Grant.
The manual contains the following labs:
- Introduction to Anatomy & Physiology
- Cells
- Histology – Epithelial & Connective Tissues
- Histology – Muscle & Nervous Tissues
- The Integumentary System
- Introduction to the Skeletal System
- Introduction Joints
- The Lower Limb – Bones
- The Lower Limb – Muscles
- The Lower Limb – Joints
- The Lower Limb – Nerves
- The Lower Limb – Movement
- The Upper Limb – Bones
- The Upper Limb – Muscles
- The Upper Limb – Joints
- The Upper Limb – Nerves
- The Upper Limb – Movement
- Muscle Physiology
- Axial Skeleton
- Axial Musculature
- Intervertebral Discs
- Central Nervous System – The Spinal Cord
- Central Nervous System – The Brain
- Motor Control
- The Senses – Vision
- The Senses - Hearing
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UGA Anatomy and Physiology 2 Lab Manual, 3rd Edition
Ann Massey, Lindsey Beebe, and DeLoris Hesse
This lab manual was created for Anatomy and Physiology II at the University of Georgia under a Textbook Transformation Grant and revised through a Scaling Up OER Pilot Grant.
http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/biology-collections/12/
The manual contains the following labs:
- Blood Composition
- Blood Typing
- Heart Anatomy
- Cardiovascular Physiology
- Systemic Blood Vessels
- Anatomy of the Respiratory System
- Physiology of the Respiratory System
- Renal Anatomy
- Urinalysis
- Digestive System Anatomy
- Digestive Physiology
- Male Reproductive System
- Female Reproductive System
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