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The OER Adoption Journey

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Long Description: The OER Adoption Journey is an OER designed to be used as part of a support system for OER adoption in a learning space/course. It is a model of what integration of multiple OER can look like within learning materials. We created The OER Adoption Journey to support faculty, librarians, and instructional designers working through OER adoption. We invite readers to use the book as is, in support of their OER adoption journey and/or OER adoption initiatives. We invite readers to break our content into modules and sub-modules for your own LMS to support OER adoption on your campus. Then build upon it to meet the needs of your own faculty as they embark on their own OER adoption journey. Modules/chapters within this book are designed for both new and seasoned OER adopters. Use parts as appropriate, revisit parts as appropriate to suit your learning and adopting needs. The content of this OER was originally designed as a course in a learning management system (LMS) to support a group of Millersville University faculty who were adopting OER for the first time. The OER Adoption Journey goes beyond finding and selecting OER course materials. It contains reflection questions to assist the adopter in thinking through integrating OER into their course in a way that is learner centered. Word Count: 9313 (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

Authors: A Nicole Pfannenstiel, Kimberly Auger, Matthew Fox

Traditional Board Games of India

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This module talks about an interesting facet of board games (chess, chaupar, snakes and ladder) in India. It not simply traces their trajectory through the centuries but also locates these games as a legitimate site of visual culture in India. What is the politics of these board games? How did they travel across centuries? How have they evolved into their present models?

Material Type: Case Study

Author: Mohit Srivastava

What Is an Atomic Clock?

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The clock is ticking: A technology demonstration that could transform the way humans explore space is nearing its target launch date of June 24, 2019. Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the Deep Space Atomic Clock is a serious upgrade to the satellite-based atomic clocks that, for example, enable the GPS on your phone. Ultimately, this new technology could make spacecraft navigation to distant locations like Mars more autonomous. But what is an atomic clock? How are they used in space navigation, and what makes the Deep Space Atomic Clock different? Read on to get all the answers.

Material Type: Module, Primary Source, Student Guide, Teaching/Learning Strategy

mechanism of salt tolerance

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Owing to their sessile lifestyle, plants are continuously exposed to a broad range of environmental stresses. The main abiotic stresses that affect plants and crops in the field are being extensively studied. They include drought, salinity, heat, cold, chilling, freezing, nutrient, high light intensity, ozone (O3) and anaerobic stresses. Under natural conditions, combinations of two or more stresses, such as drought and salinity, salinity and heat, and combinations of drought with extreme temperature or high light intensity are common to many agricultural areas around the world and could impact crop productivity. A major challenge towards world agriculture involves production of 70% more food crop for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050 worldwide. Salinity is a major stress limiting the increase in the demand for food crops. More than 20% of cultivated land worldwide (about 45 hectares) is affected by salt stress and the amount is increasing day by day. Plants on the basis of adaptive evolution can be classified roughly into two major types: the halophytes (that can withstand salinity) and the glycophytes (that cannot withstand salinity and eventually die).Majority of major crop species belong to this second category. Thus salinity is one of the most brutal environmental stresses that hamper crop productivity worldwide.

Material Type: Lecture

Author: nithila sivabalan

Evidence-based teaching resources for undergraduate biology education om Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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CourseSource is an open-access journal of peer-reviewed teaching resources for college biological science courses. A key feature of CourseSource is the alignment of articles with scientific professional society developed learning goals and objectives. CourseSource provides authors with the opportunity to publish teaching materials in a high-quality format that documents their scholarly teaching efforts, accomplishments and innovations.

Material Type: Primary Source

Authors: Ellis Bell, Kristin Fox, Neena Grover

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