All resources in Developing Open Education Alliances

Infant and Toddler Care and Development (Taintor and LaMarr)

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This book is a compilation of created and remixed resources for use in various courses supporting the care and development of infants and toddlers. This textbook is intended to be pulled apart, remixed, reshared, and redistributed in the form that best meets your individual needs. For this reason, this resource has unique characteristics not typical of other textbooks. • Each chapter or section is stand-alone. No chapter references another or makes statements such as “as you previously read.” This intentional design choice allows you to remix every section without concern about referencing a section you did not copy over. • The chapters were created around topics we felt should be stand-alone and therefore had different length requirements. For this reason, you will notice a chapter might be 20 pages or 2. • Chapters contain multiple sections to remix easily and create new and unique chapters for your individual needs. • You might find repeat information within sections. Since each section is intended as a stand-alone section, information might be repeated within sections to give context to the subject matter. The beauty of OER is you have permission to delete and add as needed. • We’ve made every effort to keep the original source with the content, as you remix be aware of the license types on each resource. To best use a small window of time to complete this resource, we decided to forgo many of the extra “bells and whistles” one might find in traditional textbooks, including call-out boxes with additional resources, robust vignettes, and reflection questions. While we feel this resource contains much of the content needed for multiple infant and toddler courses, we eagerly await each improvement upon this resource the infant and toddler educator community bring forth.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Adrienne Seegers, Amanda Taintor, Amy Carnahan, Emily Elam, Martina Marquez, Todd LaMarr, Wendy Ruiz

Child, Family, and Community

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Over the years researchers have found the necessity to develop theories of behavior that are specific to family settings. These theories have been developed by people with a variety of areas of emphasis, from family therapists to gerontologists to child development specialists. In this chapter we will briefly discuss six such theories: Bioecological Model, Family Systems, Functionalism, Conflict Theory, Symbolic Interactionism, and Psychological Perspectives. Table of Contents Chapter 1: Theories That Help Us Understand Families Chapter 2: How Children Learn and Understand Their World Chapter 3: What is Culture and Why is it Important? Chapter 4: How Does Gender Influence Children, Families and Communities? Chapter 5: What is a Family? Chapter 6: A Closer Look at Parenting Chapter 7: Building Trusting Collaborative Relationships with Families Chapter 8: Welcoming & Supporting Families Chapter 9: Creating Positive Goal-Oriented Relationships with Strengths-Based Attitudes and Relationship-Based Practices

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Rebecca Laff, Wendy Ruiz

Methods of Teaching Early Literacy

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Theories, teaching strategies, and instructional materials pertinent to teaching reading and writing in grades PK-3, with an emphasis on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening, as well as integration across content areas while addressing diversity and inclusion. Table of Contents Acknowledgments About the Book Introduction Chapter 1. What is Literacy? Multiple Perspectives on Literacy Chapter 2. Foundations of Early Literacy Chapter 3. Phonological Awareness Chapter 4. Phonics: Breaking the Code to Words Chapter 5. Supporting Literacy Learning in the Early Childhood Classroom Chapter 6. Vocabulary Chapter 7. Fluency and Comprehension Chapter 8. Writing Chapter 9. Literacy Instruction for Diverse Learners Chapter 10. Reading and Writing Across Content Areas – Disciplinary Literacy Review Statement About the Authors

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Constance Beecher, Emily Hayden, Nandita Gurjar, Sohyun Meacham

Price Transparency: State Approaches to OER/No Cost/Low Cost Course Schedule Designators

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The practice of adding either OER or no-cost/low-cost materials designators in course catalogs is on the rise, aiming to give more visibility and transparency to students and administrators as to which courses offer these more affordable options. Few formal reports have been published on the implementation and impact of OER/No Cost/Low Cost designations integrated into course schedules at colleges and universities. This booklet aims to lessen the literature gap by providing written accounts of the course marking drivers, implementation strategies, challenges, and lessons learned presented by panelists at the 16th Annual Open Education Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in October 2019.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Amy Hofer, Ann Fiddler, Boyoung Chae, James Glapa-Grossklag, Jeff Gallant, Kevin Corcoran, Michael Daly, Michelle Reed

UH OER Training

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"A three-part training guide for bringing higher education instructors up to speed with Open Educational Resources (OER). This book was developed to serve as a standalone guide for independent creators and to support OER training through face-to-face, online, and hybrid delivery modes"--Cover Page.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: William Meinke

An OER Workshop

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Trine University promotes the awareness, adoption, adaptation, and creation of open educational resources and no-cost resources for students. This work: “An OER Workshop” by Andrea Bearman is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 and is a derivative work of Creative Commons Certificate for Educators, Academic Librarians, and GLAM. In order to receive a certificate, you must take the course through Creative Commons. This book means to share an abbreviated version of the information with Trine University specifics.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Andrea Bearman

The OER Adoption Journey

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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. At its core, this work is about how adopting faculty, librarians, instructional designers, and other supporters think about their approach to OER adoption in support of student learning within a diverse set of learning spaces. 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.

Material Type: Full Course, Textbook

Authors: A Nicole Pfannenstiel, Kimberly Auger, Matthew Fox

UH OER Training

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A three-part training guide for bringing higher education instructors up to speed with Open Educational Resources (OER). This book was developed to serve as a standalone guide for independent creators and to support OER training through face-to-face, online, and hybrid delivery modes.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: William Meinke

Faculty OER Toolkit – Open Textbook

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The Faculty OER Toolkit is an information resource about and guide to adapting and adopting Open Educational Resources. Included are definitions and examples, information about Creative Commons licensing, and tips on how to adapt and/or adopt OER for classroom use. School Counsellors can benefit from understanding OER.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Shannon Moist

OER Student Advocate Toolkit

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This toolkit was created by OER student leaders in the CCC and CSU systems. The toolkit's purpose is to motivate students to get involved in OER advocacy and the Open Education movement, as well as make it known that students can make a difference in their education. Education costs can be cut to a fraction of the price with OER, which would allow for more students to be able to access knowledge and higher education. While this toolkit contains some examples and suggestions specific to California institutions, it can still be helpful for all college students. Thanks to the Michelson 20MM Foundation's financial support students were paid for their work and contributions in creating this document, as well as presenting at conferences.

Material Type: Full Course, Primary Source, Reading, Student Guide

Module 2: Understanding OER

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We will start the lesson discussing what open educational resources are. Please watch the video first and read through the content. It is important to understand the concept of open educational resources as it will be the base for the rest of the modules.

Material Type: Module

Tennessee State University Affordable Learning Solutions (OER)

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Tennessee State University Open Education Resource - Affordable Learning Solutions Webpage Portal for post-secondary content across higher education academic disciplines in partnership with www.MERLOT.org.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Case Study, Data Set, Full Course, Interactive, Lecture Notes, Module, Reading, Simulation, Syllabus, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Textbook

Author: www.MERLOT.org

VIVA Open Skills Academy Resources

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This resource includes all of the recordings and activities for the different sessions of the VIVA Open Skills Academy: Building Your OER Practice. The first session is An Introduction to Getting Started with VIVA Open on November 10, 2022. The following Academy sessions will be hosted in February, 2023 and will build on the foundational skills and practices of collaborating to curate, evaluate, create, and share Open Educational Resources (OER) to further develop projects to advance OER in your work.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Megan Simmons, Sophie Rondeau, Joanna Schimizzi

Open Textbook Workshop (Asynchronous)

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Based on the Open Textbook Network Workshop, this asynchronous workshop allows educators flexibility to engage with and interact with the materials outside of a traditional in-person workshop using Springshare's LibWizard tutorial platform.  Topics in this workshop include:Introduction to OER (open educational resources)Review of the cost of higher educationReview of the textbook publishing industryIntroduction to efficacy and perceived quality of open textbooksThe attached text file includes the html code. We've also included links to a README document that describes the step-by-step process of recreating this tutorial in LibWizard and the list of in-workshop questions and answers for each section of the workshop. This should be everything you need to recreate the aynchronous workshop.NOTE: Archives of old versions of the html code can be found in this Google Drive folder.

Material Type: Module

Authors: Liz Thompson, Kyle Binaxas

A Graduate Student's Guide to Open Education and Scholarship

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This openly licensed e-book provides an introduction to open education and scholarship for graduate students in all disciplines. In addition to providing introductory overviews of open education, open licenses, OER, open pedagogy, open access, open science, and open data, the guide offers advice and insights on how to establish oneself as an early-career open practitioner in higher education.

Material Type: Reading, Textbook

Author: Andrea Kingston

Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap

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Open pedagogy projects can be multi-faceted, single-semester, or multi-year, and can result in any number of student-authored/created/directed scholarly or non-scholarly outputs. These outputs could include, for example, a public-facing blog post, translating a Wikipedia page, creating a digital scholarly edition, socially annotating, revising an open textbook, and/or contributing to crowd-sourced transcription projects. The Open Pedagogy Project Roadmap is a module-based resource that will assist you in planning, finding support for, sharing, and sustaining your open pedagogy project, regardless of its size or scope. The Roadmap will take you through four modules which will guide you through the 5 Ss of open pedagogy projects: Scope, Support, Students, Sharing, and Sustaining.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Bryan McGeary, Christina Riehman-Murphy

Course Mapping Companion Kit

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Identification and discovery of OER is a significant barrier for faculty adoption. Mapping OER to courses is a strategy library professionals can adopt to ease the burden on faculty. The Course Mapping Companion Kit provides curation workflow steps that can be adapted to institutional needs. The companion kit also provides instructions on preparing curated OER with course alignment tags for inclusion on VIVA Open, an OER Commons hosted website. By tagging curated, course-aligned OER to VIVA Open, faculty may trace and locate OER suitable for their courses, as well as courses at other Virginia institutions of higher education.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Sophie Rondeau