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100 Ideas for Active Learning
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100 Ideas for Active Learning is a practical handbook to inspire innovative educational experiences. It is for educators and curriculum designers who wish to apply active learning tools and strategies in their own teaching and learning contexts. Effective learning happens through embodied experiences, when students are utilising all their senses - physical, mental, emotional, and social. In this book, practitioners from around the world have come together to author one hundred short chapters, each with an idea designed to help educators encourage their students to take an active learning approach to their studies.

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This is a practical handbook for educators and curriculum designers who wish to apply active learning tools and strategies in their own teaching and learning contexts. It contains short chapters under six themes: theory and curriculum design, inclusive communities, transferable skills, assessment and feedback, teaching strategies, digitally-enhanced learning. Practitioners from around the world offer ideas for those wishing to encourage students to take active learning approaches to their studies. Effective learning happens through embodied experiences; when students are applying all their senses, physical, mental, emotional and social.

The book is novel in its inception, scope and aims. Educationalists from across the world have come together to write about something they are passionate about and hope will improve teaching delivery, student learning experiences and assessment integrity for all. Dr Paolo Oprandi, University of Sussex

This book offers practical advice (supported by pedagogical theory) for implementing active learning techniques. It is a great resource for educationalists who are looking for fresh ideas, both in the classroom and online! Nayiri Keshishi, University of Surrey

This book is a must-have tool book for teachers looking to improve engagement and liven up their lessons. This book is recommended for teachers from all stages of their career, from an experienced educator who needs some refreshing to a beginner who requires easy-to-follow creative ideas to support them. What I love about this book is that it offers a diverse range of activities that cater for all subjects. It is also refreshing to have a book containing activities coming from educators across the world. Dr Shelini Surendran, University of Surrey

Produced by a globe-straddling team, this innovative volume was put together whilst authors were dealing with the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a testament to the editorial team, as well as individual authors. The diverse chapters it contains will provide inspiration for educators across disciplines far into the future. Peter Finn, Kingston University

For me, this has quickly become a go-to book for anything Active Learning, covering a myriad of examples and cases for various disciplines and areas of application, from assessment practice to inclusive practice, and will be of value to educationalists exploring active learning principles for the first time, to the veteran pedagogue looking for diverse inspiration. Matt East, Perlego

Word Count: 142064

ISBN: 9780995786271

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Education
Higher Education
Philosophy
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Sussex
Date Added:
07/20/2022
101 Open Stories
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Celebrating Open Community in the #YearofOpen

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Arts and Humanities
Literature
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Textbook
Date Added:
02/08/2024
1, 2, 3 Write!
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Cover Design: Anne Sigrun 1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

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1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

Word Count: 34581

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Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
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Textbook
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NSCC
Date Added:
06/01/2022
1, 2, 3 Write!
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Cover Design: Anne Sigrun 1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

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1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

Word Count: 34581

ISBN: 978-1-998755-60-8

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Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
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Textbook
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NSCC
Date Added:
06/01/2022
1, 2, 3 Write!
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A textbook for WR115 "Introduction to College Writing"

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Cover Design: Anne Sigrun 1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

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1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

Word Count: 35250

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Composition and Rhetoric
English Language Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
MHCC
Author:
Gay Monteverde
Date Added:
09/01/2020
12 Key Ideas: An Introduction to Teaching Online
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Understanding the internet as platform

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This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like.

Word Count: 3099

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Education
Material Type:
Textbook
Author:
Ashlyne O'Neil
Dave Cormier
Date Added:
06/01/2020
A 12 Teaching Techniques of the Holidays Cookbook
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Word Count: 30895

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Education
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Textbook
Date Added:
12/16/2022
19th Century European Art History
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Short Histories of Major Art Movements and Select Artists from ART 305

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Part textbook, part shared knowledge, this book is the co-creation of the instructor and students of Red Deer Polytechnic's ART 305, 19th Century European Art History class.

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What happens when a class shares their collective knowledge about their subject, rather than hiding it away and stuffing it down in individual memory? A textbook that is formed by the meeting of the minds!

As part of the ART 305 19th Century European Art History move to online during the pandemic, a collective project was born: creating a digital open-education resource, free to any who choose to access it, and a way for the individuals in class to be part of a greater community in an online learning environment.

With some chapters authored by the instructor of the class and others created by the students as a result of their term’s research, this text is a growing document that will encompass past, present, and future learners as their collective body of knowledge grows.

Within the parameters of 19th Century European Art History this text begins with the influence and beginnings of change during the Rococo era in France and progresses through time until the beginning of the 20th century. Each chapter marks a specific era or a specific artist and chapters are individually authored.

Word Count: 136177

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Subject:
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
01/01/2022
(2018) Chemistry 112- Chapters 12-17 of OpenStax General Chemistry
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The textbook provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of chemistry and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them. The book also includes a number of innovative features, including interactive exercises and real-world applications, designed to enhance student learning.

Word Count: 113253

Included H5P activities: 42

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Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Pennsylvania State University
Date Added:
01/26/2024
2018 Political Year of the Woman Election: A Critical Examination
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This book consists of student-authored original research papers collectively examining the ways in which gender shaped, and was shaped by, the 2018 Year of the Woman elections.

Subject:
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Political Science
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Muhlenberg College
Author:
Muhlenberg College PSC 389
Date Added:
12/09/2019
2022 Retreat for Violin and Viola Teachers
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June 24–July 1, 2022

Word Count: 1825

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Performing Arts
Date Added:
02/02/2024
2023 Compendium of North American Nursing OER
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The aim of this compendium is to provide nurse educators with an easily accessible collection of 25 resources designed to support student learning, particularly within nursing programs.

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The aim of this compendium is to provide nurse educators with an easily accessible collection of OER designed to support student learning, particularly within nursing programs.

A search of the Pressbooks directory was undertaken to identify resources for potential inclusion in this compendium. These resources were filtered according to the following inclusion criteria: nursing authorship; North American; published after 2015; and intended for nursing students. Materials were excluded if they were identified as self-published books or were not openly licensed.

This resulted in a total of 25 resources that address areas inclusive of, but not limited to, health assessment, nursing leadership and management, foundational nursing practice skills, and the care of special populations.

The compendium is presented as a tabulation of key elements for each of the 25 resources, adapted from the Faculty Guide for Evaluating Open Education Resources. Five key elements are described relative to the criteria of credibility (i.e., authorship, publisher, year of most recent update), relevance (i.e., title of the open textbook, aim, intended audience, topical foci), accessibility/interactivity (i.e., figure and tables, videos, review questions, total interactive H5P activities), and licensing (i.e., availability for use with attribution).

Users of this compendium are encouraged to consider each of the tabulated elements (e.g. credibility, relevance, accessibility/interactivity, and licensing) to determine the merit of directly accessing a resource for potential inclusion as a supplement in a nursing course.

Word Count: 4284

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Subject:
Applied Science
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Cambrian College
Date Added:
03/03/2023
20th Century Costume Pattern Design
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Learn flat pattern techniques as they apply to the design of 20th century clothing.

Word Count: 1806

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Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Graphic Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
University of Florida
Author:
Jennifer K. Smith
Date Added:
10/11/2021
21st Century Queer Fashion Brands
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Oral History Project

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The purpose of this project is to document the history of each brand using the oral history method. We conducted oral histories with 24 brands with questions ranging from their own personal histories to how and why they started the brand. We are interested in the lives of the individuals who founded the brands in addition to the entire story of each brand from idea development to today so that way these stories can be documented as an important part of fashion and retail history.

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The purpose of this project is to document the history of each brand using the oral history method. We conducted oral histories with 24 brands with questions ranging from their own personal histories to how and why they started the brand. We are interested in the lives of the individuals who founded the brands in addition to the entire story of each brand from idea development to today so that way these stories can be documented as an important part of fashion and retail history.

Word Count: 242178

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Subject:
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Iowa State University
Author:
Dana Goodin
Kelly L. Reddy-Best
Kyra Streck
Date Added:
05/23/2020
23 Scholarly Communication Things
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Word Count: 50571

ISBN: 978-1-925553-43-7

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Subject:
Applied Science
Computer Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Queensland University of Technology
Date Added:
01/11/2021
2SLGBTQ+ Healthcare
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Your guide to building an inclusive practice

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Subject:
Applied Science
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Social Science
Material Type:
Textbook
Date Added:
02/28/2022
2nd edition, A Student's Guide to Tropical Marine Biology, 2nd edition
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Authors and editors: Haley Zanga, Audrey Boraski, Alana Olendorf, Marisa Benjamin, Haley Fantasia, Simone McEwan, Jaime Marsh, Melissa Wydra, Will Trautmann, Emily Michaeles, Maddi Ouellette, Andrew Fuhs, Allie Tolles, Suki Graham, Mary Swain, Devon Audibert, Sarah Larsen, Emma Verville, Tim Brodeur, Jason Charbonneau, Christian Paparazzo, Bryce Chounard, Malisa Rai, Jennifer Rosado, Morgan Tupper

Chief Editors, final revision: Haley Zanga, Audrey Boraski, Alana Olendorf

Chief Editor, first draft: Andrew Fuhs

Managing Editors and Editorial team leaders, first draft: Bryce Chounard, Emily Michaeles, Maddi Ouellette

Word Count: 40031

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Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Date Added:
02/02/2024
360 Essentials: A Beginner's Guide to Immersive Video Storytelling
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Our objective with this resource is to walk you through the essential steps in creating compelling and engaging 360 video experiences. While some prior experience with photography or videography can help, the technology available now gives anybody the ability to produce this type of amazing content.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Visual Arts
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Toronto Metropolitan University
Author:
Adrian Ma
Gary Gould
Joshua Cameron
Date Added:
06/08/2021
3D Interactive Plots for Multivariate Calculus
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An open textbook created to improve both teaching and learning vital concepts and techniques in multivariable calculus, one of the fundamental courses across the undergraduate curriculum in science and engineering. The goals of this resource are to help learners develop their geometric intuition about abstract and complex mathematical concepts (e.g., partial derivatives, multiple integrals, vector fields), and train them to make connections between concepts visually (e.g., connecting “vectors” in mathematics with “magnitude” and “direction” in physics) in order to more fully understand engineering, physics and mathematical problems (e.g., differential equations) in their subsequent STEM coursework.

Word Count: 7075

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Subject:
Calculus
Mathematics
Material Type:
Textbook
Provider:
Toronto Metropolitan University
Date Added:
02/28/2022
3D Printing in the K-12 Mathematics Classroom
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A Beginner’s Guide for Teachers

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This book is for math teachers with little to no experience with 3D printing who would like to incorporate it into their classroom.

Long Description:
This book is for math teachers with little to no experience with 3D printing who would like to incorporate it into their classroom. Included are reasons why 3D printing is useful in a classroom, logistics of how 3D printing works, example activities for all grade levels, and ways for teachers to think of their own activities.

Word Count: 17468

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Subject:
Mathematics
Provider:
Fig Hollow Publishing
Date Added:
03/07/2017