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OER Storytelling - Eastern Arizona College

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Many faculty are enthusiastic to help their students in any way they can. OER presents a ripe opportunity for this, but often the lack of success stories and knowledge of adequate resources can make the switch from traditional textbooks too daunting for instructors. This is my story of beginning to overcome this difficulty, and my goals with the rest of our college with respect to OER implementation.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Spencer Udall

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OER Storytelling Why

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In today's rapidly evolving educational landscape, empowering faculty is crucial for fostering innovation and student engagement. Historically, insitutions of higher learning thrived on a model where professors were not just educators but also creators of their own course materials. They wrote their own texts, designed their own curriculum, and taught with a deep sense of ownership and expertise. However, with the rise of publishers and standardized content, this autonomy was gradually eroded. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer a return to this empowering model by providing faculty with the tools and resources to develop their own high-quality, customizable course materials. By embracing OER, we empower faculty to reclaim their role as content experts and facilitators of meaningful learning experiences, ultimately benefiting both educators and students alike.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Author: Eric Osborn

Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave

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Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave P. Venkataraman Essential Mechanics - Statics and Strength of Materials with MATLAB and Octave combines two core engineering science courses - “Statics” and “Strength of Materials” - in mechanical, civil, and aerospace engineering. It weaves together various essential topics from Statics and Strength of Materials to allow discussing structural design from the very beginning. The traditional content of these courses are reordered to make it convenient to cover rigid body equilibrium and extend it to deformable body mechanics.The e-book covers the most useful topics from both courses with computational support through MATLAB/Octave. The traditional approach for engineering content is emphasized and is rigorously supported through graphics and analysis. Prior knowledge of MATLAB is not necessary. Instructions for its use in context is provided and explained. It takes advantage of the numerical, symbolic, and graphical capability of MATLAB for effective problem solving. This computational ability provides a natural procedure for What if? exploration that is important for design. The book also emphasizes graphics to understand, learn, and explore design. The idea for this book, the organization, and the flow of content is original and new. The integration of computation, and the marriage of analytical and computational skills is a new valuable experience provided by this e-book. Most importantly the book is very interactive with respect to the code as it appears along with the analysis.

Material Type: Full Course, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Simulation, Textbook

Author: P Venkataraman

Family Partnerships and Culture

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Best practices for planning curriculum for young children, developed by the California Department of Education. This publication provides early childhood education program administrators and teachers with guidance and practices that support the development of partnerships with families and inclusion of children's cultural experiences as essential parts of planning curriculum.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Child Development

BrainWorks - Introducing Brain Science to Students

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This is a series of presentations and activities that are designed to introduce students to Cognitive Development.  I have had success doing one of these every now and then as part of a history class.  Also, I have taught units on Child Development and Education where I used them all within the context of the same unit.  I like the spreading of these lessons throughtout the year in a high school setting, where students can sort of see it as a continuing series of interesting topics that break up the normal flow of learning.  

Material Type: Module

Author: Jesse Driver

Safety, Health and Nutrition in Early Childhood Education

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Short Description: Early childhood is a critical time in development. Many outcomes, both positive and negative, have their beginnings in these years. It is vital that children’s health and safety be protected. High-quality early care and education programs can play a valuable role in improving outcomesfor children. Word Count: 131790 ISBN: 978-1-998755-92-9 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Play-Responsive Teaching in Early Childhood Education

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This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and proposes the development of play-responsive didaktik. It examines the processes and products of learning and development, teaching and its phylogenetic and ontogenetic development, as well as the ‘what’ of learning and didaktik. Next, it explores the actions, objects and meaning of play and provides insight into the diversity of beliefs about the practices of play. The book presents ideas on how combined research and development projects can be carried out, providing incentive and a model for practice development and research. The second part of the book consists of empirical studies on teacher’s playing skills and examples of play with very young as well as older children.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Agneta Jonsson, Anne Kultti, Camilla Björklund, Cecilia Wallerstedt, Hanna Palmér, Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, Maria Magnusson, Niklas Pramling, Pernilla Lagerlöf, Susanne Thulin

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