This resource is used in the Introduction to Education course at Middle Tennessee State University. Readers will explore the foundations of American education through a critical lens. Modules include, social foundations of education, theoretical and ethical perspectives as well as an introduction to curriculum, assessment and classroom management.

This open educational resource (OER) was compiled for use in ENGL 1010 – Expository Writing, the first of Middle Tennessee State University’s two first-year writing courses. This OER is divided into five main sections, all of which are designed with ENGL 1010’s course objectives in mind. Each of those sections contains a number of readings related to the section’s topic, with many of those readings curated from other open-access texts.

The first-year writing sequence at Middle Tennessee State University takes a rhetorical approach to writing. This means that students are asked to consider how “good” writing is situational. There are no hard and fast “rules” for writing. Instead, there are conventions or norms and expectations specific to particular contexts. In ENGL 1010: Expository Writing, students practice identifying writing conventions across modes and contexts.

Using Teams to Facilitate Organizational Development is a compilation of resources, information, and readings from open education resources gathered and produced in one location for the students of Middle Tennessee State University through resources from the James E. Walker Library and Embracing Equity through Open Educational Resources. Portions of this book are adapted from an edition of Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior, both produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA). This adaptation has reformatted the original text, and replaced some images and figures to make the resulting whole more shareable. This adaptation has not significantly altered or updated the original. This work is made available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Additional portions were adapted from Organizational Change, originally adapted from Saylor Academy for the Open Textbook Network under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License without attribution as requested by the work’s original creator or licensor.