Entry into English 2
(View Complete Item Description)Higher Beginning concepts for lower-level English learners.
Material Type: Lesson, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
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Welcome to Maple Falls—Introduction to Reading, Writing, and Grammar for Adult ESOL Learners
(View Complete Item Description)This student textbook, teacher guide, and supplementary materials help support the development of Adult ESOL learners. Welcome to Welcome to Maple Falls — Introduction to Reading, Writing, and Grammar for Adult ESOL Learners. Our goal in creating this book was to provide a more structured and grammatical beginning reading and writing book that was flexible enough to help students with no or limited literacy but also aid students with advanced literacy who just haven’t had much exposure to English, so they are at a beginning level. We designed this book to follow experience-based learning principles, which rely heavily on using adults’ prior learning to increase the accessibility of learning and incorporate new learning. This means creating contexts, readings, activities, and learning opportunities that are immediately relevant to student situations. We see language as a tool to be used by students to achieve social, community, educational, and work-related goals. However, this is not survival English, but a learning informed by research that situates the learner at the center of learning and interacting with materials and classmates to improve their own lives and those of classmates. This type of learning creates self- directed learners and helps learners be ready for problem-solving and critical thinking in authentic situations.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook
Vocab ASAP: Intermediate Vocabulary for English Language Learners
(View Complete Item Description)This work is organized around vocabulary for 5 themes: Psychology, Wellness, Technology, Careers, and Oregon. Each theme has 2 units for a total of 10 units. Each unit contains 24 - 28 target vocabulary words. Other words that may be unfamiliar to students are glossed. We use this material as our textbook for an intermediate vocabulary class for adult English language learners at our community college. This class meets for 2 hours per week, and we typically use 5 units per 10-week term. Each unit contains multiple readings. If you are not teaching a vocabulary class, the readings and vocabulary work may be useful supplements in other classes.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Module, Textbook
ENTRY into ENGLISH 1 & 2 (an ESOL Curriculum for Literacy / Level 1 / Level 2)
(View Complete Item Description)This Landing Page for Entry into English contains Level 1 Beginning Concepts for Lower-Level English Learners, Level 2 High Beginning English Learners, Supplementary & Literacy Materials, and introductory videos.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy
MTH 256 Supplement to Judson's “The Ordinary Differential Equations Project”
(View Complete Item Description)MTH 256 at Portland Community College includes a variety of differential equations and their solutions, with emphasis on applied problems in engineering and physics. Uses differential equations software. Students communicate results in oral and written form. Graphing and Computer Algebra System (CAS) technology are used, such as Desmos and/or GeoGebra which are available at no cost. This is a one-term introduction to ordinary differential equations with applications. Topics include classification of, and what is meant by the solution of a differential equation, first-order equations for which exact solutions are obtainable, explicit methods of solving higher-order linear differential equations, an introduction to systems of differential equations, and the Laplace transform. Applications of first-order linear differential equations and second-order linear differential equations with constant coefficients will be studied. With this supplement, we are adding to the work of Thomas Judson's “The Ordinary Differential Equations Project” by providing additional practice problems that mostly focus on applications. We worked with the 2022 edition 2 of The Ordinary Differential Equations Project 3 . In sections 2.2, 2.4, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4, we utilize the work and ideas of Steven Strogatz in his paper titled “Love Affairs and Differential Equations” 4 , Published in the February 1988 edition of Mathematics Magazine. This paper and several others expanding these ideas can be found by googling “Romeo and Juliet differential equations”.
Material Type: Reading, Textbook
Introduction to Arabic: Egyptian Arabic for first-year students
(View Complete Item Description)Materials for a student's first year of Egyptian Arabic Short Description: This book presents materials for mastering the Arabic alphabet and the student's first steps in Egyptian Arabic. Word Count: 16366 (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
Foundations of Education
(View Complete Item Description)This dynamic and equity-focused Open Educational Resource serves as a multifaceted textbook for Foundations of Education courses in post secondary institutions.
Material Type: Textbook
Health and Fitness
(View Complete Item Description)Introduces a comprehensive overview of wellness concepts including fitness, nutrition, stress, disease prevention, and various other lifestyle factors that improve the quality of life. Each student's health and fitness is individually evaluated through a series of tests measuring cardiovascular endurance, strength, body composition, flexibility, blood pressure, nutrition, stress levels and blood lipid and blood glucose.
Material Type: Full Course
Technical Mathematics, 2nd Edition
(View Complete Item Description)This developmental-level mathematics textbook is intended for career-technical students. The approach is conversational, with many of the examples drawn from everyday life rather than from the technical trades. Practice assignments are available on the MyOpenMath platform.
Material Type: Textbook
"Intro to Fiction" Anthology: Readings from Marginalized Voices and Identities
(View Complete Item Description)This anthology offers links to short fiction pieces by living authors whose lived experiences have been marginalized due to race ethnicity, gender or ability. This book is intended as a starting point for future collaboration in celebrating and sharing voices and stories that need to be shared.
Material Type: Textbook
Learning How to Learn Languages: A theoretical and practical guide for learning additional languages
(View Complete Item Description)Learning How to Learn Languages is a student-developed, interactive, open-source online textbook. It is a collaborative effort of five undergraduate students, one graduate student, and a faculty member at the University of Oregon. It offers a comprehensive view of second language learning in one place, providing conceptual perspectives on language learning through a practical lens. This how-to guide is useful for learners of all levels and can be used in various ways: as a complete textbook for a course, as supplemental chapters in language courses, or as self-study. It contains ten chapters: five chapters on different foundational aspects of language learning followed by five additional chapters on language skills and their integration with practical strategies and example stories from learners. This OER incorporates various visual elements such as illustrations, student-created videos, authors’ stories, and H5P activities with built-in feedback for learners to engage independently.
Material Type: Textbook
MHCC Digital Accessibility Action Plan
(View Complete Item Description)Proposal for revising the current action plan for accessibility and raising awareness at Mt Hood Community College. In February 2023 a cohort from MHCC attended the WebAIM course on Strategic Digital Accessibility Training sponsored by Open Oregon Education Resources. During the course the cohort determined that the current Accessibility Continuing Action Plan (ACAP) required updating and revisions considering the changes to instructional modalities brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as recent redesign of the college website slated to launch in the Fall of 2023.
Material Type: Assessment
COCC Local Action Plan for Digital Accessibility
(View Complete Item Description)COCC has historically been operating at a reactionary vs. proactive response to digital accessibility. Creating a digital accessibility plan and hiring staff for this responsibility will hopefully turn this into a proactive versus a reactionary response for students with disabilities and all other individuals who would benefit.
Material Type: Assessment
Lane Community College Accessibility Plan [OER]
(View Complete Item Description)Ensuring digital accessibility is critical to advancing equity-minded education at Lane Community College. Through this project, with the assistance of Open Oregon and WebAIM, we were able to identify and work towards actionable goals to improve digital accessibility on our campus.
Material Type: Assessment
Strategic Digital Accessibility Training Guide
(View Complete Item Description)This training guide developed by WebAIM and Open Oregon Educational Resources outlines a professional development curriculum to help institutional teams advance digital accessibility in Oregon's public colleges and universities. The guide explains the purpose and outcomes of the training, as well as the delivery format and community guidelines for engagement. In winter and spring 2023, 13 institutions in Oregon engaged in the training with the goal of creating digital accessibility action plans that benefit their campus open education programs and beyond.
Material Type: Syllabus
Local Action Plan for Digital Accessibility for Umpqua Community College
(View Complete Item Description)Students with disabilities at Umpqua Community College deserve access to all campus opportunities to engage, to learn, and to be known. Because we know that advancing digital accessibility is a collective project with many stakeholders, this local action plan proposes short term and long term goals to help campus stakeholders work together and improve digital accessibility over time. This Task Force acknowledges the level of support already received from the campus administration and faculty for accessibility efforts within asynchronous and synchronous online courses. It is our hope to use this information as a platform to increase accessibility within the physical classroom as well as digitally.
Material Type: Assessment
RCC: Digital Accessibility Action Plan
(View Complete Item Description)RCC's institutional commitment to change and capacity building for accessibility begins with policy. This action plan shares context, current initiatives, and action items for the Accessibility Committee to consider.
Material Type: Assessment
LBCC Statement of Need & Proposed Solution for Strategic Digital Accessibility
(View Complete Item Description)In Spring 2023, Open Oregon Educational Resources partnered with ORAHEAD and WebAIM to offer a Strategic Digital Accessibility Training program to institutions in Oregon. The purpose of this program was to provide critical support for advancing digital accessibility action planning in Oregon. This document is the output of Linn-Benton Community College's participation. It is our hope that this proposal helps advance LBCC’s mission and values, especially Inclusiveness, Learning, and Excellence.
Material Type: Assessment
WOU Strategic Digital Accessibility Plan
(View Complete Item Description)In April/May 2023, a team from Western Oregon University (WOU) attended the Strategic Digital Accessibility Training sponsored by Open Oregon Educational Resources and WebAIM. The team worked and met asynchronously between meetings to complete homework assignments and to discuss the intricacies of creating a digital accessibility plan specific for WOU. One major takeaway from WebAIM’s training was that the foundation for a digital accessibility plan is a digital accessibility policy. The creation of a digital accessibility policy was added to the university’s Equity Action Plan.
Material Type: Assessment
Chemeketa Digital Accessibility Action Plan
(View Complete Item Description)Chemeketa Community College is committed to creating an inclusive learning environment that meets the needs of its diverse employee and student bodies. This means that all students, faculty and staff including those with disabilities, are provided equal and equitable access to all digital resources, technologies, websites and and other services used to provide information, assistance, programs, services or any other access to Chemeketa faculty, staff, students or visitors. An Action Plan Team convened to help develop a plan in conjunction with a Digital Accessibility Policy that was in development for the College. The purpose of the team was to consider ways to help implement and promote the policy along the way. The team put together some specifics of what should be put into both the process and guideline documents to help guide the accessibility work once the policy is in place.
Material Type: Assessment