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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.

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

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  Introduction to Anthropology Open Textbook

  Jenna Andrews-Swann, MaryBeth Chrostowsky, Kathryn Deeley, and Gregory Gullette

  This is a collection of readings for a four-field, undergraduate Introduction to Anthropology course. Each chapter includes learning objectives, chapter text and key words, a case study, comprehension questions, critical thinking and engagement questions, and a list of additional resources.

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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.

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

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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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  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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  UWG Introduction to General Psychology

  Mark Kunkel, Amelia Bagwell, and Rod McCrae

  This open textbook for Introduction to General Psychology is a remix of newly-created chapters by UWG faculty and existing materials from OpenStax Psychology. The text was created under a Round Eight Textbook Transformation Grant.

  Authors' Description:

  This free textbook you are holding in your virtual hands is a labor of love. It combines eight brand-new and unique chapters with a dozen or so somewhat modified chapters from an existing freely available textbook in general psychology, and brings the original and the new work together in a way that we hope is a gift to you in your study and more importantly in your self-awareness. I’d like to tell you a bit more about the text, and how it came to be, here at the beginning of your journey with Psychology (and maybe with yourself!).

  I taught my first Intro class in 1988, and I have taught this marvelous and challenging class most semesters since then. I have never been completely satisfied with the available textbooks: some were too difficult, some were too watered-down. Some were overly conceptually dense, some too thinly applied. All were expensive, especially for students who struggle to make their way and sometimes must decide between buying a $200 textbook and having something to eat.

  And I could never find a textbook that:

  • Introduced students to psychological knowledge not just as something to know, but as something to equip them to live differently, in self-awareness;
  • Included a detailed yet accessible overview of the importance of psychological theory, and how it allows a new way of thinking and feeling and being in the world;
  • Acquainted students with Psychoanalysis (mostly not about sex, as it turns out) as a provocative and helpful way to take up knowing, and self-awareness;
  • Ushered students into the marvelous landscapes of Humanistic, Existential, and Transpersonal psychologies, not as mere anachronistic social movements or philosophies but as insistent demands to take up living, differently;
  • Accompanied students in a new knowing about culture, and context, and how much of what we assume as roles and identity and even the Self is a function not of who we are, but of where and when we are; and
  • Sketched the contours of Consciousness, of Development, and of Suffering and Wellness in ways that were more or less adequate to these topics.

  So I wanted a textbook that gave all students equal access to learning, and brought to them these unique and transformative gifts, from psychology. The “free” part? That was easy, thanks to availability of a pretty good traditional OpenStax Intro Psych text. And the new chapters, adding up to another complete book, happened due to the kind sponsorship of two Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) grants I received in 2016 and 2017.

  This program sponsors development and use of open educational resources and in many ways its sponsorship allowed the development of this text. I am grateful beyond these words for ALG support.

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  Wicked Problems: A Science, Technology, and Society Workbook

  Julie R. Newell, Tamara Powell, Brayden Milam, Lesley Gabel, Kaylee Polk, and Tyler Tait

  This workbook for Science, Technology, and Society was created under an ALG Affordable Materials Grant. The workbook approaches STS 1101 through the lens of problems with high degrees of ambiguity where answers cannot be classified as right or wrong, but rather better or worse.