Project Management (Business 402)

This course will walk you through the nuts and bolts of project management. From understanding the project life cycle to setting priorities and expectations to controlling expenses and reporting results, project management touches several resources within organizations. You will examine roles and environments and various techniques of planning, evaluation, and control. An overview of the tools used in contemporary project management will also be discussed throughout the course.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Homework/Assignment, Reading, Syllabus

Economics and the Environment

How are economics and the environment related? The quick answer is that environmental quality is a worthy goal, but there is an economic trade-off: a clean environment does not come without costs. The September 2014 Page One Economics article, "Economics and the Environment, "provides some economic strategies for protecting the environment.

Material Type: Lesson, Reading

Author: Scott A. Wolla

BSA 110 Personal Finance

BSA 110 -- Personal FinanceWelcome to the wonderful world of Finance (and money)!! The course is a 8 weeks, you need to keep up with the Modules.  There are 8 Modules, so we will complete one module every week.Personal Finance refers to how you manage your money, including your income, expenses, and savings. When you put effort into managing your personal finances, you have a better grasp on where your money is going and what changes you can make to meet your future financial goals.  Your Personal Finances are crucial in almost all aspects of your life.  How you handle your credit, what is your purchasing power, and am I prepared for retirement?  What are my short- and long-term financial needs?We will be looking at many different topics: Investing, The Fed, Stocks, Mutual Funds, and Retirement, to name a few.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Micah Weedman, Edmund Bushman

ENG 230- Introduction to Literature

This course is designed to give you a broad overview of the field of literary studies.  We will read texts from different time periods, different parts of the world, and different genres.  We will learn the tools to put in our toolbox to help us analyze literature like a professional.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Micah Weedman, Laura Cline

Digital Media (Course Files)

This set of course materials includes lecture slides, activity files, images, quizzes, tests, review questions, and project assignments for Digital Media at Georgia Gwinnett College. The course uses open-source applications such as GIMP and InkScape. Individual chapters are available for download due to the large file sizes. Web-based assignments to supplement these materials are located on the GGC Wiki: All Digital Media Assignments Topics covered include: Digital Images Image Processing Audio Processing Video Processing Creating Animation

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Kairui Chen, Shuhua Chen

Film Aesthetics (Open Course)

This open set of course materials for Film Aesthetics is a downloadable version of a course created for a learning management system. Included are learning modules and a quiz bank based on introductory film concepts including the following topics: Narrative Structure and Motifs, Mise-en-Scene, Cinematography, Sound Design, Music, and Visual Effects.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Elizabeth Lathrop, Thomas Anderson

Exploring Movie Construction and Production: What’s so exciting about movies?

Exploring Movie Construction and Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students’ learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: John Reich

#GoOpen District Launch Packet (2017)

In 2022, the #GoOpen movement transitioned from a federal initiative to launch the #GoOpen National Network, a national community of educators and leaders who use and support open educational resources and practices (OER/OEP) to equitably improve teaching and learning for all. This resource offers enduring value and guidance for districts choosing to transition to the use of openly licensed educational resources to improve student learning in their schools. Openly licensed educational resources (OER) enable districts to reallocate significant funds currently spent on inflexible, static learning materials to resources and activities that accelerate the transition to digital learning. These include implementing new professional learning programs for teachers, developing a robust technology infrastructure to support digital learning, and funding new leadership roles for educators who curate and create openly licensed educational materials.

Material Type: Assessment

OER Passport Training Program

OER Passport is a professional development program that takes educators through the process of understanding, finding, developing and sharing Open Educational Resources. This course trains teachers and students on OER use, reuse, licensing, creation, and sharing by completing the following tasks. The first three tasks lay a solid foundation and provide teachers with the tools to complete the last three tasks which focus on the use, reuse, production, and innovative teaching practices. Participants can complete the tasks online. There are also files to print/create physical copies of OER Passports that can be used in an offline environment.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Jenni Hayman

Ontario College Libraries’ OER Toolkit

The OER Toolkit aims to improve equitable access to open learning resources and services to college students by providing a province-wide academic support platform for faculty to use while designing courses and assignments. The Toolkit is a one-stop guide to open educational resources, providing faculty and library staff with tools and information to understand, engage with, create, and sustain OER in their work and practice. The Toolkit is designed to be used by anyone involved with OER at an academic institution, whether you are part of a team that is collaborating to create OER, a library staff member who is supporting OER development and use, an advocate for OER at your institution, or an instructor seeking to incorporate OER and open pedagogy in the classroom. The primary purpose of this Toolkit is to support faculty and library staff at Ontario colleges; however, it is openly available for use beyond the Ontario college community.

Material Type: Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Colleges Libraries Ontario and the Ontario Colleges Library Service in collaboration with ISKME

Why OER?

A brief video where OER experts give their reasons for working in the field of Open Educational Resources. Primary reasons include empowering teachers, equalizing access to education, reducing teachers' worries about copyright, reducing educational costs, and facilitating the open flow of information.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: Stefano M. Stefan

Permissions Guide for Educators

This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources, so that the resources may be appropriately (and legally) used as part of lessons and instruction. The guide also helps educators and curriculum experts in approaching the task of securing permission to use copyrighted materials in their classrooms, collections, libraries or elsewhere in new ways and with fewer restrictions than fair use potentially offers. The guide was created as part of ISKME's Primary Source Project, and is the result of collaboration with copyright holders, intellectual property experts, and educators.* "Copyright license choice" by opensource.com is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Melinda Boland

Ballot Experiment

This resource consists of a Java applet and expository text. The applet is a simulation of the ballot experiment: The votes in an election are randomly counted. The event of interest is that the winning candidate is always ahead in the vote count.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive, Simulation

Author: Kyle Siegrist

MATH 1420: Geometry Concepts for Teachers

Course Objective: This course is an introduction to basic algebra; elements of probability and statistics; and basic concepts of Euclidean geometry, including congruence, similarity, measurements, areas, and volumes.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Authors: Ashley Morgan, Connie Blalock, Jessica Chambers, Stefanie Holmes

Math 1410 Number Concepts for Teachers

This course is an introduction to problem solving; logic, sets, and operations on sets; and properties and operations on whole numbers, integers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, and real numbers. Modelling techniques necessary for future elementary educators will also be covered in this course.

Material Type: Lecture Notes

Authors: Ashley Morgan, Connie Blalock, Jessica Chambers, Stefanie Holmes

OpenStax Algebra & Trigonometry Recorded Lectures and Notes for Precalculus

This resource is a collection of full hour-long lectures and accompanying notes covering most of chapters 6-10 of the OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry book. The notes are provided in both .DOCX and .PDF format to accommodate downloading ease. Students should be encouraged to print notes and fill them out as they watch through the lectures.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Libby Gore

OER 101 Tutorials for Designers - Canvas Course

The following Canvas Course tutorials are designed to guide learning to support (a) OER adopt/adapt projects, and (b) OER semi-build and full build creation projects. You will find:The tutorials build upon each other to guide you through the full process to meet your (a) or (b) OER project goal.The assignments and activities within this tutorial focus on relevant tasks for faculty working on transitioning a course to OER. Individual tutorial completion times range from 15 minutes to 30 minutes.  Link to Canvas Course or Download Canvas Course Export (see attached .imscc file)

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Linda Neff

Open Pedagogy Course Design - full course

This is a course for faculty that will introduce the meaning, benefits and challenges of open educational resources and open pedagogy course design. You will learn where to locate OER, and how to revise, remix, and create new resources in your courses, and how to share your courseware with colleagues. It is designed to impart the skills and knowledge needed to create and teach an entire course using OER.THIS IS THE PUBLIC VERSION of a self-paced course facilitated by YC faculty, librarians, and instructional designers on a rotating basis, and is required for any faculty member to complete before teaching "No Cost OER Textbook" courses.  As such, some of the content applies specifically to the needs and policies of Yavapai College.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: Thatcher Bohrman

Open Pedagogy Notebook

This website is designed to serve as a resource for educators interested in learning more about Open Pedagogy. The website includes examples of open pedagogy practices, which include both classroom-tested practices and budding ideas.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Rajiv Jhangiani, Robin DeRosa

Open Pedagogy with Faculty & Students

Open Pedagogy is a collection of open practices in the classroom made possible by replacing commercial textbooks with open educational resources. These emerging practices enabled by open content licensing (and an open mindset) involve students in making decisions about their own learning experiences and contributing directly to global knowledge to impact not only other students but generate renewable value outside of the classroom. This is a recording of a webinar presented by three faculty members and two students who have participated in open pedagogy projects that were enabled through the adoption of open education resources and open practices. Learn how students working with instructional designers and librarians have begun to help faculty adopt, create and implement open content across their campus.

Material Type: Interactive