All resources in VIVA Open Skills Academy
Nursing Management and Professional Concepts
(View Complete Item Description)This book introduces concepts related to nursing leadership and management, prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal implications of nursing practice, ethical nursing practice, collaboration within the interprofessional team, health care economics, quality and evidence-based practice, advocacy, preparation for the RN role, and the avoidance of burnout with self-care. Several online, interactive learning activities are included in each chapter that encourage application of content to patient-care situations. Additionally, the Appendix includes a “suite of patients” with suggested prompts for classroom discussion to assist students in applying concepts from the book to real patient-care situations.
Material Type: Textbook
Nursing: Mental Health and Community Concepts
(View Complete Item Description)This textbook is an open educational resource with CC-BY licensing developed specifically for prelicensure nursing students. The e-book and downloadable versions are free. Affordable print versions are published in collaboration with XanEdu and available on Amazon and in college bookstores. Content is based on the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) statewide nursing curriculum for the Nursing Mental Health and Community Concepts course (543-110), the NCLEX-RN Test Plan, 1 and the American Psychiatric Nurses Association Education Council’s Crosswalk Toolkit: Defining and Using Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Skills in Undergraduate Nursing Education. 2 Mental health and community health concepts are discussed while emphasizing stress management techniques, healthy coping strategies, referrals to community resources, and other preventative interventions. Nursing care for individuals with specific mental health and substance use disorders is examined, and the nurse’s role in community health needs assessments and caring for vulnerable populations is introduced. The e-book is free and can be viewed online or downloaded as a PDF or other formats for offline use. Affordable print versions are also published in collaboration with XanEdu and are available on Amazon and in college bookstores.
Material Type: Textbook
Nursing Pharmacology
(View Complete Item Description)This open access Nursing Pharmacology textbook is designed for entry-level undergraduate nursing students. It explains basic concepts of pharmacology and describes common medication classes. This book is not intended to be used as a drug reference book, but direct links are provided to DailyMed, which provides trustworthy information about marketed drugs in the United States.
Material Type: Textbook
Understanding Medical Words
(View Complete Item Description)This unit describes the meanings of medical words.
Material Type: Unit of Study
VIVA Open Course Planning Template
(View Complete Item Description)The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) Open Course Grants are awarded to educational professionals in the state of Virginia who wish to adopt, adapt, or create open or no-cost course materials that will greatly reduce the cost of those materials for students in courses in any discipline. Grantees are invited to remix this course planning template to design and share their OER project plans, course information and syllabus, and reflection.
Material Type: Syllabus
Best Practices for Communicating Digital Accessibility Requirements
(View Complete Item Description)Guidance and sample language for agencies looking to include accessibility requirements and/or guidance in communications with publishers and developers of digital materials and technologies.
Material Type: Reading
Creating Accessible Documents and Slide Decks
(View Complete Item Description)This page is meant to be an entry point into the creation of accessible content with familiar tools such as Microsoft Office and Google Docs.
Material Type: Module
Creating Accessible Social Media Posts
(View Complete Item Description)Learn how to make your posts on a number of social media platforms more accessible by including alternative text for images, properly using hashtags to make your posts searchable and more.
Material Type: Module
Defining Accessibility
(View Complete Item Description)An explanation of what it means to say educational materials are "accessible" and why accessibility is important.
Material Type: Reading
Teaching with Accessible Video
(View Complete Item Description)Resources to help educators enhance and enrich their teaching with accessible videos that include captions and/or audio description.
Material Type: Module
Vetting for Accessibility
(View Complete Item Description)A set of questions that can be used to evaluate the accessibility of materials considered for procurement.
Material Type: Reading
STEM OER Accessibility Framework and Guide
(View Complete Item Description)This guidebook was created by ISKME, in partnership with the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College. The document provides a practical reference for curators and authors of STEM OER, and contains 23 accessibility criteria, or elements, to reference as they curate, design and adapt materials to be accessible for STEM learners. The primary audience of this resource is STEM postsecondary faculty, instructional designers, and others responsible for course design and pedagogy who seek to: - Expand their knowledge about accessibility and ways to integrate it into their STEM curriculum and instruction - Design openly licensed STEM courses and course materials that support both access and use by learners - Curate existing STEM content that expands upon traditional textbooks and courseware to address variability in learning - Identify and add meaningful keywords, or tags, to the STEM OER they create, so that their OER can be more easily discovered across platforms Professional learning teams on campus are also encouraged to use this framework as part of training to facilitate integration of accessibility concepts into STEM course design and pedagogy. The framework and guide development was supported by a mini-grant program facilitated by Bates College and the SCORE-UBE Network (Sustainability Challenges for Open Resources to promote an Equitable Undergraduate Biology Education), with funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The framework and guide were developed by ISKME and SERC with input from 21 STEM faculty members from across the United States, and in collaboration with the project’s Working Group of accessibility experts: Andrew Hasley and Hayley Orndorf, both with BioQUEST’s UDL Initiative and the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project; Hannah Davidson, Plymouth State University; and Cynthia Curry, National Center on Accessible Educational Materials (AEM)/CAST.
Material Type: Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy
American History I: Colonial Period to Civil War
(View Complete Item Description)This text from Dr. Franklin Williamson and Dr. Tom Aiello from Gordon State University contains all modular text content used in the LMS implementation of their American History I (HIST 2111) courses. American History 1 covers topics ranging from the colonial period to the Civil War. The text was created under an Affordable Learning Georgia G2C Pilot Grant, taking place from Spring 2018 until Fall 2019. Table of Contents: Chapter 1 - The Colonial South Chapter 2 - The Colonial North Chapter 3 - 18th Century Colonial Life Chapter 4 - The French and Indian War Chapter 5 - American Revolution, Part 1 Chapter 6 - American Revolution, Part 2 Chapter 7 - Articles of Confederation Chapter 8 - Early Republic Chapter 9 - Jeffersonian Era Chapter 10 - Market Revolution Chapter 11 - The North and 19th Century Thought Chapter 12 - Slavery and Southern Life Chapter 13 - Western Expansion Chapter 14 - Sectional Conflict Chapter 15 - American Civil War
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lecture, Syllabus, Textbook
The American Yawp
(View Complete Item Description)The American Yawp constructs a coherent and accessible narrative from all the best of recent historical scholarship. Without losing sight of politics and power, it incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. Whitman’s America, like ours, cut across the narrow boundaries that strangle many narratives. Balancing academic rigor with popular readability, The American Yawp offers a multi-layered, democratic alternative to the American past.
Material Type: Textbook
Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History
(View Complete Item Description)The National Humanities Center presents this collection of essays by leading scholars on the topic of Freedom's Story: Teaching African American Literature and History. Topics include the effect of slavery on families, slave resistance, how to read slave narratives, Frederick Douglass, reconstruction, segregation, pigmentocracy, protest poetry, jazz, the Harlem Renaissance, the Civil Rights Movement, and more.
Material Type: Reading
History in the Making: A History of the People of the United States of America to 1877
(View Complete Item Description)This textbook examines U.S. History from before European Contact through Reconstruction, while focusing on the people and their history. Prior to its publication, History in the Making underwent a rigorous double blind peer review, a process that involved over thirty scholars who reviewed the materially carefully, objectively, and candidly in order to ensure not only its scholarly integrity but also its high standard of quality. This book provides a strong emphasis on critical thinking about US History by providing several key features in each chapter. Learning Objectives at the beginning of each chapter help students to understand what they will learn in each chapter. Before You Move On sections at the end of each main section are designed to encourage students to reflect on important concepts and test their knowledge as they read. In addition, each chapter includes Critical Thinking Exercises that ask the student to deeply explore chapter content, Key Terms, and a Chronology of events.
Material Type: Textbook
African American History and Culture
(View Complete Item Description)This textbook examines the experiences and perspectives of Africans and American Americans from Medieval Africa to the end of Reconstruction.
Material Type: Textbook