The information shared within this website was carefully curated and designed to promote quality online teaching and learning experiences for Calculus faculty and students within the University of North Carolina System.
The Chemistry I course digital enhancements collection provides open education resources (OER) for instructors covering chemical concepts in the first semester of a general chemistry course or other STEM-related courses that cover some aspect of first semester chemistry topics within their curriculum. The “Chemistry: Atoms First, 2e” is the primary OER textbook used by the UNC Digital Course Enhancement for Chemistry I faculty team members. The course material provided is related to general chemistry concepts that students on a career tract, such as a professional career in chemistry, a related science, the health professions, or engineering are required to learn.
General Chemistry I course collection materials include suggested reading sections in the Chemistry: Atoms First, 2e textbook, lecture videos and activities/assessments related to chemical concepts such as, but not limited to the following: relevant chemistry historical events, basic principles and definitions, states of matter, dimensional analysis, the mole, atomic structure, the periodic table, periodic relationships, chemical bonding and geometry, enthalpy, stoichiometry, and types of chemical reactions.
Chemistry 1 course collection video from the UNC System OER project. This one-minute video is meant for students. It focuses on what students may think they know about the topic, what students could learn from taking the course, and a brief introduction to open educational resources.
The Chemistry II course digital enhancements collection provides open education resources (OER) for instructors covering chemical concepts in the second semester of a general chemistry course or other STEM-related courses that cover some aspect of second semester chemistry topics within their curriculum. The textbook used by the Chemistry II faculty team members of the UNC Digital Course Enhancement is “OpenStax: Chemistry Atoms First 2e”. The course materials provided are related to the following majors (and concentrations): biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, exercise and sport science, mathematics, medical technology, nutrition, and physics. This course is also required for admittance into physician assistant programs and the following pre-professional programs: predentistry, preengineering, premedicine, prepharmacy, prephysical therapy, and preveterinary medicine. This course may also partially satisfy the general education natural science requirement.
General Chemistry II course collection materials include suggested reading sections in the Chemistry Atoms First 2e textbook, lecture videos, demonstrations and activities/assessments related to chemical concepts such as, but not limited to the following: gases, intermolecular forces, solutions, chemical kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases, thermodynamics , electrochemistry and radioactivity.
Chemistry 2 course collection video from the UNC System OER project. This one-minute video is meant for students. It focuses on what students may think they know about the topic, what students could learn from taking the course, and a brief introduction to open educational resources.
The General Biology course collection, as the name suggests, is not a course, but rather a collection of activities and resources that an online instructor could use to supplement their online course. There are resources for both micro and macro biology which could be used to bolster understanding within lecture-based courses or added to specific online labs depending on the student learning outcomes.
The Introductory Financial Accounting digital course enhancements is a comprehensive, open
access resource for accounting instructors to adopt in whole or in part and is designed to
support flexibility for faculty and students. The content areas are divided into modules for ease
of navigation or partial adoption as needed. For consistency we selected a main text and main
source for videos. We provide suggestions for student activities and deliverables for each topic
within the modules.
For the novice instructor, you will find an organized course structure highlighting key content
areas and suggested activities. For the new-to-online, this course offers a structure to follow
and suggestions for engagement that can easily be adapted to online delivery. For the
experienced faculty, our goal was to provide new ideas, engagement activities, and links to
resources that could be shared with students seeking additional support. We’ve also curated
additional resources that are open access and may be beneficial to instructors as supplemental
materials.
The Statistics team attempted to identify the most common topics that are covered in such an introductory course in statistics. Through a collaborative effort involving Statistics faculty, instructional designers, instructional technologists, and librarians across the UNC System, the course materials and resources have been collected, curated, and organized into modules. The modules may be used in part or in total as a basis for an Introduction to Statistics course. As you review the collection to find materials that could serve your needs, you may find that there are a number of student learning outcomes that your institution does not include in its Introduction to Statistics courses. We recognized that different institutions may emphasize different topics, so we wanted to offer resources that would align with the largest possible cross-section of those topics.
We also approached this project with the view that the resource collection should serve instructors with varied levels of online teaching experience and different needs. We aimed to provide a library of resources that could be used to create a full Introduction to Statistics course but have presented those resources in a way in which faculty could select any subset of the resources to serve their needs.
Introduction to Statistics course collection video from the UNC System OER project. This one-minute video is meant for students. It focuses on what students may think they know about the topic, what students could learn from taking the course, and a brief introduction to open educational resources.
Introductory Financial Accounting course collection video from the UNC System OER project. This one-minute video is meant for students. It focuses on what students may think they know about the topic, what students could learn from taking the course, and a brief introduction to open educational resources.
The Macroeconomics digital course enhancements is a comprehensive, open-access resource
for economics instructors to adopt in whole or in part, and is designed to support flexibility for
faculty and students. The content areas are divided into modules for ease of navigation or
partial adoption as needed. We don’t have a required textbook even if we often refer to
chapters in the OpenStax’s Principle of Macroeconomics. In addition, we provide suggestions
for student activities and deliverables for each topic within the modules as well as reference
videos and articles.
This Macroeconomics resource is intended to provide flexible adoption options for instructors.
Instructors may use all of the materials in the modules or select what is most appropriate to
enhance existing course materials. We hope this is a useful tool for economics instructors
regardless of expertise level.
Macroeconomics course collection video from the UNC System OER project. This one-minute video is meant for students. It focuses on what students may think they know about the topic, what students could learn from taking the course, and a brief introduction to open educational resources.
Microeconomics may be most accessible to students when instructors can pull current events into the classroom. Teaching the course online makes doing so easier but brings new challenges in graphing, engagement and assessment.
This collection of resources can be utilized by experienced faculty or instructors with minimal teaching background or years of experience in the classroom. Novice instructors may appreciate faculty developed activities, text alignment and videos, while new-to-online faculty will benefit from suggestions of easy-to-use online tools for polling and graphs. The development team included activities for individual students, as well as team exercises and discussion starters.
Microeconomics course collection video from the UNC System OER project. This one-minute video is meant for students. It focuses on what students may think they know about the topic, what students could learn from taking the course, and a brief introduction to open educational resources.
The OER Implementation Collection is a companion to the UNC digital course enhancement collections. It was developed for faculty, instructors, and librarians in the UNC System by open educational resources (OER) experts from NC State University, East Carolina University, UNC Greensboro, UNC Charlotte, North Carolina A&T, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and UNC Chapel Hill.
The collection gathers reliable open resources and provides videos of presentations from authoritative speakers to answer the most frequent questions faculty ask about how and why to use OER in their courses. The OER Implementation Collection will provide a guide to finding and using OER for faculty and instructors who are interested in working with the UNC digital course enhancement collections and using other open educational resources in their teaching.
After using this collection, participants will:
Understand what OER are
Describe how OER benefit students and faculty
Find OER that are relevant for their courses
Determine quality and value of OER that they find
Adapt existing OER to fit their courses
Learn how to create their own OER
The information shared within this website was carefully curated and designed to promote quality online teaching and learning experiences for Precalculus faculty and students within the University of North Carolina System.
The faculty resource guide provides details on the content, teaching strategies, and recommendations for the use of the Quantitative Reasoning collection for your course.
The collection was compiled by a team of subject area experts, an instructional designer and a librarian with expertise in Open Educational Resources. The collection includes student learning outcomes used to design the Quantitative Reasoning course content collection and seven learning modules aligned with those outcomes: Quantity and Proportion, Analysis of Growth, Voting Theory, Financial Literacy, Descriptive Analysis-Collecting Data, Descriptive Analysis-Describing Data, and Probability. The modules contain instructional materials, resources, and assessments further aligned with the outcomes. In addition to the information you find here in the Implementation Guide, you will find additional explanations and suggestions within individual modules and alongside specific artifacts.
Quantitative Reasoning course collection video from the UNC System OER project. This one-and-a-half-minute video is meant for students. It focuses on what students may think they know about the topic, what students could learn from taking the course, and a brief introduction to open educational resources.
This open-access online general chemistry video repository, offered not-for-credit and free of charge from UC Berkeley, provides students an introduction to the world of chemistry as seen from a broad variety of perspectives.