The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward. 

This lesson introduces ethical standards of healthcare to students. Students will understand guiding ethical principles and their application to a career field’s code of ethics. Students will be able to differentiate between cultural and social ethical dilemmas. 

OverviewThis lesson introduces ethical standards of healthcare to students. Students will understand guiding ethical principles and their application to a career field’s code of ethics. Students will be able to differentiate between cultural and social ethical dilemmas.  StandardsHS.HS.6.2.b Describe ethical practices with respect to cultural, social, and ethnical differences within the healthcare environment.

Web sources can be created by anyone and therefore are riskier in terms of their credibility and authority. This source offer some criteria by which webpages can be evaluated for authenticity.

This lesson is a group project. Students will be able to see what life was like for different types of people during the Civil War. They will learn a greater appreciation for their lives now as well as how their ancestors might have lived. The project is a power point presentation but of course that can be modified.

This exercise is designed to give the students a hands-on experience in which they can relate different orientations of an indicatrix to the different birefringence observed for each orientation. Each student is given a piece of fruit that has the shape of a uniaxial indicatrix - either a kiwi (uniaxial positive) or a tangerine (uniaxial negative). The student follows a set of instructions to insert toothpicks to represent the different indicatrix axes and to draw on the fruit using a permanent marker the circular and principal sections. Then the student is asked a series of questions asking them to determine the birefringence of the mineral for different orientations of the fruit.

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Collaborative Workflows for Risk Management in Sharing Cultural Heritage Collections Online

Short Description:
Digitizing rare and unique historical documents so they can be shared online is mission-critical work for most cultural heritage institutions, but it can be difficult to complete this work, especially intellectual property rights management, at a scale that matches user demand. The authors of this open educational resource offer guidance for creating scalable, cross-functional workflows using a risk-management approach that increases efficiency and distributes responsibility for rights assessment work more equitably across stakeholders. It includes advice for navigating knowledge gaps, building an engaged team with the right skillsets, reimagining workflows, and rethinking traditional archival processing workflows to build capacity for rights analysis during arrangement and description. Each chapter includes a helpful exercise for implementing this guidance in your own institution.

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In this resource, students will practice finding the perimeter of a polygon given the length of one side.

Students apply what they have learned about design to evaluate a floral arrangement based on the principles of balance, scale and proportion, harmony, dominance/focal point, rhythm, and unity, and elements of line, form, texture, color, and value.  Worksheet developed from a document by Nebraska AFNR educator Ashli Weinrich.

"Fluency Disorders Notes for Speech-Language Pathology Assistant" is a practical resource that caters specifically to a 1-credit-hour course for SLPAs or 1/3 of a 3-credit-hour course in communication sciences and disorders. It aims to provide overviews, screening methods, and remediation approaches with some samples to guide future SLPAs in addressing fluency disorders. The booklet meets coursework requirements and allows for customizing learning objectives to support aspiring SLPAs effectively. As such, this booklet does not intend to compete against commercially available textbooks with comprehensive information about the targeted and peripheral topics.

Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, the authors embarked on a mission to create their first Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook. This initiative was born out of a commitment to alleviate the financial burden associated with study materials and to help aspiring SLPs and SLPAs progress toward certification without financial constraints. The authors view the development of OER materials as an ongoing endeavor driven by their commitment to supporting and valuing their future colleagues.

This book incorporates images, illustrations, and information from various OER that allow others to adopt or remix their information in part or whole. The information from other OER sources is color-coded in black ink, and the content developed by the authors is presented in blue ink. Citations for all images, illustrations, and information that the authors do not originate are provided on each page. The authors sincerely appreciate the work of those who have shared their valuable resources under the Creative Commons (CC) license, as their contributions have enriched this booklet and fostered a sense of community among its readers.

The authors of this textbook aspire to ignite a sense of fascination in beginning learners as they delve into the captivating realm of communication sciences and disorders. With this goal in mind, the authors have made this textbook readily accessible to future colleagues who seek to acquire foundational knowledge that can be applied in serving individuals with communication disorders.

June S. Levitt, Ph.D., LDT, CCC-SLP
Sarah L. Guigneaux, M.S., CCC-SLP

August 2024
Contact: junel@allspeech.net

Students begin this activity by using the IPCC4, carbon diagram to distinguish natural and anthropogenic carbon. (A point that students may need to have clarified is that CO2 from natural and anthropogenic sources is the same molecule.). Students begin with Activity 1 , calculating the overall carbon transfer for a year, followed by an examination of the role of forests in the carbon cycle. This suite of activities includes 7 parts, and the selection of additional activities depends upon the discretion of the instructor and focus of the class.

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This short video takes viewers through the journey that Frankenstein makes throughout the novel. Each location is shown close up on a map with a brief description of what occurs in each location.

Textbook for Freshman English that teaches elements of style that Freshman can learn. Few books for Freshman English teach anything of style, though they display essays with style. This book fills that gap. The author uses a creative writing approach to encourage students to play with the language and master some basic stylistic technique. We're not challenging freshman writers enough, nor exposing them to the joy of language creation.

This activity was designed for blind learners, but all types of learners can use it to understand how villi function in the small intestine. The purpose of this activity is to examine a model of the inside of the small intestine to support understanding of the function of villi in digestion.

Through three teacher-led demonstrations, students are shown samplers of real-world nanotechnology applications involving ferrofluids, quantum dots and gold nanoparticles. This nanomaterials engineering lesson introduces practical applications for nanotechnology and some scientific principles related to such applications. It provides students with a first-hand understanding of how nanotechnology and nanomaterials really work. Through the interactive demos, their interest is piqued about the odd and intriguing nano-materials behaviors they witness, which engages them to next conduct the three fun associated nanoscale technologies activities. The demos use materials readily available if supplies are handy for the three associated activities.

Multicultural education for young children

Word Count: 23853

ISBN: 978-0-6487698-2-8

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This problem challenges students to design experiments using techniques measuring gene expression (reverse transcriptase PCR, microarrays, in situ hybridization).