A list of suggested open educational resources (OER) for courses at uOttawa

Short Description:
The OER by Discipline Guide is a tool suggesting open educational resources for courses at uOttawa. This version supersedes Version 1.0 – June 2021. Consult this online version for the latest updates. This guide also has a French version: Guide REL par discipline : Université d'Ottawa (version 2.0 - juin 2022). Already using an OER in your course? Let us know by filling out the Adoption Form.

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The OER by Discipline Guide: University of Ottawa is a tool suggesting open educational resources for specific courses at uOttawa. Its purpose is to help professors (and students) get acquainted with existing OER in their disciplines and facilitate their use. This version supersedes Version 1.0 – June 2021. Consult this online version for the latest updates.

This guide also has a French version: Guide REL par discipline : Université d’Ottawa (version 2.0 – juin 2022).

Already using an OER in your course? Let us know by filling out the Adoption Form.

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This anthology is an online collection of short fiction created to serve as an accessible and affordable option for college-level introduction to fictions courses. It is part of a growing movement to promote OERs (Open Educational Resources) in order to reduce textbook costs for students. The fiction included in this anthology represents a diverse selection of authors from the nineteenth century to today, and it also contains support material including an introduction, key concepts, literary terminology and literary theories.

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On My Path: Continuing the Dream is a digital magazine that invites literary contributions by members of the Renton Technical College community, and aims to give voice to our experiences.

Word Count: 9856

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Hovering in the Last Chapter of Cancer

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A life lived and enjoyed with deepening faith while balancing breast cancer.

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You're probably wondering what this "technical writing thing" is. Someone may even have told you, "it's this course where they make you write about rocket science and brain surgery." Well, not really, as you will see in a moment. Actually, the field of technical communication is essential in a wide range of fields and occupations. It is a fully professional field with degree programs, certifications, and—yes!—even theory. It's a good field with a lot of growth and income potential; and an introductory technical-writing course for which this book has been developed is a good way to start if you are interested in a career in this field.

An Anthology and Guide

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A guide for students of early British Literature from the 8th to 18th centuries.

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Please use this course shell as a frame to adapt current courses into a Universal Design for Learning Format or as a frame to build and new courses.

Open ELA is a complete course for the Reading and Language Arts, Social Studies, and Science portions of the GED exam. It also includes GED Study Guides and lessons contextualized to college and career exploration and readiness. There are six units covered in Open ELA:

- Understanding Literature
- Intro to Communications
- Metacognitive Reading
- Film & Television Studies
- Reading for Science & Social Studies
- Journalism

Each unit includes six-eight chapters, each containing an interactive presentation, assigned readings, and two assignments. Each unit is meant to be studied over the course of eight weeks (most instructors assign two units concurrently). However, students are always welcome to navigate these materials at their own pace and in their own way. In the final unit, you will find GED study guides specific to the RLA, Social Studies, and Science exams. These are appropriate for review as you prepare to take on a specific portion of the GED.

OpenELA is a complete course in Reading and Language Arts for instructors and self-directed learners in Adult Basic Education settings. These materials are designed to aid students in completing the GED exam and to support college and career pathways.

Writing for Success
Provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.

An open textbook created by Salt Lake Community College for ENG 101 and ENG 102 classes.

Open English @ SLCC is an evolving digital book created and maintained by English Department faculty at Salt Lake Community College. It exists to provide our faculty–over one hundred full- and part-time instructors–with robust, flexible, and locally produced open educational resources (OER) that can be used for teaching a variety of courses across our composition sequence.

This book is evolving and adaptive, offering a range of texts on rhetoric, writing and reading, all written by SLCC faculty with specific attention to the needs of SLCC students and the local conditions of our work and study at a large, multi-campus, increasingly diverse community college in Salt Lake City, Utah. Unlike a traditional textbook, the writing in this book invites remix, adaptation, and repurposing to match the specific needs of its users–SLCC writing students and instructors primarily–but also faculty and students at other schools, course designers, WPAS, and anyone else interested in open texts about writing, language and literacy.

Open English @ SLCC is a community-authored, community-focused text, one that invites conversation, change, addition, and repurposing over time in the interests of attuning itself to the needs of those who use it. To this end the book invites public digital annotation through Hypothesis, allowing readers to add notes, questions, observations and resources directly to the texts. This ethos of shared knowledge, creative reuse, and ongoing conversation is at the heart of the Open English @ SLCC project.

This book presents technical writing as an approach to researching and carrying out writing that centers on technical subject matter. Each and every chapter is devoted to helping students understand that good technical writing is situationally-aware and context-driven. Technical writing doesn’t work off knowing the one true right way of doing things—there is no magic report template out there that will always work. Instead, the focus is on offering students a series of approaches they can use to map out their situations and do research accordingly.

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This textbook includes materials on listening, speaking, lexicogrammar, pragmatics, and pronunciation.

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This textbook includes materials on listening, speaking, lexicogrammar, pragmatics, and pronunciation.

Word Count: 10362

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A Project of Oregon Writes

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This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Guided by Oregon's statewide college writing outcomes, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand. Faculty guide available: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1035227Order a print copy: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jenn-kepka/oregon-writes-open-writing-text/paperback/product-23840147.html

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This textbook guides students through rhetorical and assignment analysis, the writing process, researching, citing, rhetorical modes, and critical reading. Using accessible but rigorous readings by professionals throughout the college composition field, the Oregon Writes Writing Textbook aligns directly to the statewide writing outcomes for English Composition courses in Oregon.

Created through a grant from Open Oregon in 2015-16, this book collects previously published articles, essays, and chapters released under Creative Commons licenses into one free textbook available for online access or print-on-demand.

Faculty guide available: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1035227

Order a print copy: http://www.lulu.com/shop/jenn-kepka/oregon-writes-open-writing-text/paperback/product-23840147.html

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ISBN: 978-1-63635-058-5

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(Version: 18 Aug 2019)

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Migration of the William Kirmse and Henry Lohman families from Perry County, Missouri to Alva, Oklahoma.

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How the William Kirmse and Henry Lohman families homesteaded on the western edge of the The Cherokee Strip among a colony of Volga German Russians near Goodwin, Oklahoma Territory. Their abodes, family, and harvesting of crops as well as descriptive stories of their Volga German Russian neighbors are presented. And, a photo tour of the Goodwin area a century is provided a century after the Kirmses and Lohmanns moved to Alva, Oklahoma

This is book is a work in progress. The comment boxes will be open during the development of this book. If you find errors or have suggestions, please use the comment box at the end of each chapter. All comments will be appreciated that help improve this book.

If you have related pictures and stories about Out-Migration From Perry County To Oklahoma, please send copies to Family.Kirmse@gmail.com so that they can be included.

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This book is an educational, entertaining, and highly personal memoir written during a global pandemic. It provides an insightful snapshot of the occasionally bumpy yet spiritually transformative cancer journey of a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered academic living in a sunny Canadian prairie province.

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This book is an educational, entertaining, and highly personal memoir written during a global pandemic. It provides an insightful snapshot of the occasionally bumpy yet spiritually transformative cancer journey of a middle-aged, immigrant, and non-partnered academic living in a sunny Canadian prairie province.

It will be of interest to anyone who: 1) is or has been on the cancer continuum as a patient, caregiver, family member, or friend; 2) is or strives to be a health professional (oncologist, GP, nurse, social worker, pharmacist, physio- or exercise therapist, etc.); 3) is an administrator, instructor, teaching assistant, or student at a post-secondary institution interested in health sciences, English literature (memoir writing, creative non-fiction, and narratives of illness), Women’s and Gender Studies, Spirituality Studies, Religious Studies, and the Fine Arts; 4) fellow authors and/or readers who like to give writers from the Canadian prairies a chance.

The Appendix includes “Leading Reading Questions” meant to increase everyone’s reading experience and lighten the load of fellow university professors who wish to adopt this book, or part of this book, for a class.

Word Count: 53928

ISBN: 978-0-7731-0764-9

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This freely available French language ebook seeks to develop Pacific-literacy by highlighting the languages and cultures of the Francophone Islands of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna and French Polynesia. It will be of value to university French language students, high school students and teachers both in Australia and overseas.

Short Description:
Intermediate French language workbook for developing Pacific-literacy.

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This free French language ebook seeks to develop Pacific-literacy by purposefully highlighting the language and culture of the Francophone Islands of New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Wallis & Futuna and French Polynesia. This ebook was originally written for students of French who enrolled in a semester (twelve weeks) of Intermediate French within the College of Arts, Society and Education at James Cook University. It has since been adapted and updated to provide a resource for all French learners who wish to expand their knowledge of Global French, improve their Pacific Literacy, or visit the Francophone Islands of the Pacific region.

The book is aimed at Intermediate learners who already have an A2 level of French (CEFR), and can be used as a free resource by French teachers in high schools, universities and colleges, as well as self-directed learners.

Word Count: 6703

ISBN: 978-0-6489220-5-6

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Core 2 is Pacific's new reading, critical thinking, and writing-instruction seminar for first- or second-year students. All sections will include some common elements, like reading long-form narrative prose and writing instruction, and all sections will feature expository, thesis-driven writing in response to the course readings. Sections are taught by a variety of faculty from across the university.

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Palabras bilingües: navegando entre culturas has been designed for heritage language learners who wish to continue developing their bilingual skills. Through units that follow Project-Based Learning, this book aims to expand students’ bilingual abilities and incorporate their language variety in the classroom .

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