Learning Framework: Effective Strategies for College Success

This free digital textbook serves as a companion to EDUC 1300/1200/1100 Learning Framework: Effective Strategies for College Success at Austin Community College. This book is an accessible and relevant way to explore the research and theory in the psychology of learning, cognition, and motivation as well as factors that impact learning, and the presentation of specific learning strategies. This Open Educational Resource was remixed from a previous version found at https://courses.lumenlearning.com/austincc-learningframeworks/ by Heather Syrett and Laura Lucas. Senior Contributing Author and EditorHeather Syrett, Professor and Assistant Department ChairStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community College Contributing AuthorsPamela Askew, ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community CollegeEduardo Garcia, ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community College Edgar Granillo, Professor and Department ChairStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community College Laura Lucas, Former Adjunct ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community CollegeMarcy May, Adjunct ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community CollegeTobin Quereau, Former Adjunct ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community CollegeAmber Sarker, ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community College Paul Smith, Adjunct ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community College Eva Thomsen, Associate ProfessorStudent Development and General StudiesAustin Community College Suggested Attribution for Reuse;Syrett, H., et al. Learning Framework: Strategies for College Success. Provided by: Austin Community College. Located at: OER Commons, https://www.oercommons.org/courseware/8434. License: CC BY-NC-SA-4.0 Revised August 2020 (Chapters 1, 4, 6, 7, and 8), August 2021 (Chapters 2 and 15), August 2022 (Chapters 1, 3, and 16), August 2023 (Chapters 1, 16, and 17), August 2024 (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 14.)

Material Type: Full Course

Statewide Dual Credit Speech and Communication

Statewide dual credit (SDC) classes are college-level courses taught at the high-school level by trained high-school teachers. All SDC courses culminate in a challenge exam which is used to assess mastery of the postsecondary-level learning objectives. Students who meet or exceed the exam ‘cut score’ receive college credit that can be applied to any Tennessee public postsecondary institution.  This course covers communication basics, listening, verbal and nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication, intercultural communication, group communication, and public speaking.

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Competent Communication

This is both a human communication and public speaking text for the general education course.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Bill Turner, Lisa Coleman, Thomas King

Computer Skills Curriculum For Adult Learners

This computer skills curriculum is designed for teaching computer skills, MS programs, and Social Media awareness to adult learners. The curriculum uses visual aids, practical application and performance based assessments making it appropriate for ESOL learners as well as native English speakers. Each module aligns with the corresponding Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment. Teacher notes, vocabulary lists, and additional resources are included in each module.

Material Type: Full Course, Lesson Plan

Author: Sherry Lehane

ENGR 1110: Engineering Graphics Instructional Materials

Instructional materials for the course "ENGR 1110: Engineering Graphics" include videos, assignments, slides, and drawings on the following topics: engineering graphics and scales, orthographic views, isometric views, dimensioning, section views, AutoCAD, layers, colors, mirrors, fillet, arrays, chamfer, blocks, Fusion 360, sheet metal modeling, tracing, textures, lofting and more.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Module, Syllabus

Author: Craig Leendert

College Level Reading Support: Readings to Engage Learners

These materials provide resources for those wanting to assist students with their reading comprehension and vocabulary. See section 1, titled "Overview" for additional information. The Overview (section 1) also contains a common course cartridge with the assessments for these learning materials including quizzes, discussions, and writing assignments. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lecture Notes, Reading

Authors: Star Boe, Jean Gorgie, Karen Hutson

Fundamentals of Communication

This textbook is a Fundamentals of Communication Textbook that includes intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, group communication, conflict management, and public speaking. 

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Amy Bryant, neely ann sheucraft, Harlan Pease

MTSU ENGL1010: Expository Writing

This open educational resource (OER) was compiled for use in ENGL 1010 – Expository Writing, the first of Middle Tennessee State University’s two first-year writing courses. This OER is divided into five main sections, all of which are designed with ENGL 1010’s course objectives in mind. Each of those sections contains a number of readings related to the section’s topic, with many of those readings curated from other open-access texts. The first-year writing sequence at Middle Tennessee State University takes a rhetorical approach to writing. This means that students are asked to consider how “good” writing is situational. There are no hard and fast “rules” for writing. Instead, there are conventions or norms and expectations specific to particular contexts. In ENGL 1010: Expository Writing, students practice identifying writing conventions across modes and contexts.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Amy Fant, Amy Harris-Aber, Candie Moonshower, Caroline LaPlue, Eric Detweiler, Jennifer Wilson, Kate Pantelides, Nicholas Krause, Paul Evans

Advanced Community College ESL Composition: An Integrated Skills Approach

This book has been created to provide a framework for building your skills in writing and critical thinking. It provides access to published samples from professional authors along with essay drafts from ESL students who have polished their skills in their respective writing courses. The themes in the readings will give you a variety of topics to discuss with your classmates, which may inspire your own deeper thinking and writing. Overall, we hope that as you proceed through these chapters, you will build confidence and develop your voice in the classroom and beyond.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Edgar Perez, Jenell Rae, Sara Behseta

College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success

College ESL Writers: Applied Grammar and Composing Strategies for Success is designed as a comprehensive grammar and writing etext for high intermediate and advanced level non-native speakers of English. We open the text with a discussion on the sentence and then break it down into its elemental components, before reconstructing them into effective sentences with paragraphs and larger academic assignments. Following that, we provide instruction in paragraph and essay writing with several opportunities to both review the fundamentals as well as to demonstrate mastery and move on to more challenging assignments.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Barbara Hall, Elizabeth Wallace

Harmony: A Writing/Grammar Textbook for ESOL Level 5

This is an initial draft edition of an integrated grammar and composition book for intermediate (level 5 of 8) students of English for Speakers of Other Languages. Grammar lessons review basic verb tenses, while composition lessons help students to master a healthy paragraph and then introduce the basic components of an essay. Materials use an arts theme.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Timothy Krause

Integrated writing skills for advanced students of ESOL

This writing course for advanced students of ESOL offers an integrated approach to metacognition and critical thinking skills, research and source evaluation skills, standard composition and grammar skills, and academic vocabulary skills. After some preliminary activities, each unit follows a regular routine: -warm-up writing prompts that review previous concepts and generate authentic writing from which to observe and discuss common grammar and mechanics -vocabulary lessons that present useful academic words that also appear in the texts -big-picture concepts for college writing adapted specifically for ESOL learners from Amy Guptill's Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence -grammar lessons that review the basics and then focus on clauses -composition lessons based on moving from five-paragraph essays toward organic research papers, again adapted from Amy Guptill's Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence -"getting ready to write" lessons focused on research, source evaluation, reported speech, and academic formatting -essay writing/editing prompts -self-reflection writing/editing prompts Materials make use of a textbook that is available at this link: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/synthesis/

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Timothy Krause

Building Academic Writing Skills

Short Description: “Building Academic Writing Skills” provides carefully targeted and sequenced instructions in academic writing and editing for intermediate level English as a Second Language (ESL) students. Word Count: 75767 Included H5P activities: 215 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

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Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with Sources

The focus of the text is on interacting in various ways with academic sources and popular articles, including paraphrasing, summarizing, responding to arguments, and using sources to support and develop your own ideas. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of writing you will be doing in the course and provides scaffolded practice to help you build the skills necessary to successfully complete that type of writing. The major writing assignments that make up this course were specifically chosen in order to target writing skills that can be applied to various writing contexts. The writing skills you practice in this course can also be applied to other courses in which writing is assigned, such as summarizing a textbook chapter, responding to written opinions, locating and evaluating academic sources, and composing an argumentative research paper.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Becky Bonarek, Steph Mielcarek, Trischa Duke

ELSI 043: English for Academic Purposes II: Course Description

This resource is a detailed course outline for ELSI 043: English for Academic Purposes II, a three-hour non-credit developmental English writing course designed for international freshmen at the University of Illinois Chicago. The course outline is a companion document for the OER textbook Integrated Skills: Academic Writing with Sources (UIC, 2021).

Material Type: Syllabus

Authors: Becky Bonarek, Jenna Buendia, Jordan Carson, Kris May, Steph Mielcarek, Trischa Duke

ENGL 2860: Introduction to Film

This course is an overview of film history using selected works from world cinema. The course introduces the basic elements of film expression and analysis while also examining how films reflect their cultural and historical context and the extent to which films reflect the diversity of human experience across multiple time periods and cultural perspectives.

Material Type: Full Course

Authors: Wes Spratlin, William Murphy

Spanish for Construction and Management

This online resource which is designed as a highly interactive alternative to a textbook for a full-semester course to help beginning students gain or increase Spanish skills that are useful for their career, daily life, academics and travel. The emphasis will be in language output for daily life and professional purposes, and there is very little emphasis on grammar as this will be acquired naturally through exposure to the language.Students will find activities to build speaking, listening, writing and reading skills as well as explore Spanish, Hispanic and Latin American culture.All sources in this resource are Open Educational Resources which are free and available to all users.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Vanessa Botts

Languages for Professions: In the Workplace

Iowa State University's Languages and Cultures for the Professions (LCP) program allows students to pursue a professional track degree—in the College of Business, the College of Agriculture, or the College of Engineering—while at the same time pursuing a second major in their chosen language in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (within the Department of World Languages and Cultures). But, it’s not just a language that students enrolled in this program are learning. LCP students are gaining the skills to be successful cultural entrepreneurs; they are not only able to communicate in a second language, but they become culturally competent and develop the skills to succeed in multicultural and multilingual professional settings. In this video, global professionals share about their current positions and workplace culture.

Material Type: Case Study

Authors: Iowa State University, Megan Myers

Languages for Professions: Global Professionals

Iowa State University's Languages and Cultures for the Professions (LCP) program allows students to pursue a professional track degree—in the College of Business, the College of Agriculture, or the College of Engineering—while at the same time pursuing a second major in their chosen language in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (within the Department of World Languages and Cultures). But, it’s not just a language that students enrolled in this program are learning. LCP students are gaining the skills to be successful cultural entrepreneurs; they are not only able to communicate in a second language, but they become culturally competent and develop the skills to succeed in multicultural and multilingual professional settings. In this video, LCP graduates and current students share what it means to them to be culturally competent global professionals.

Material Type: Case Study

Authors: Iowa State University, Megan Myers