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Financial Accounting

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This book is suitable for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. The authors bring their collective teaching wisdom to bear in this book not by changing "the message"(financial accounting content), but by changing "the messenger" (the way the content is presented). The approach centers around utilizing the Socratic method, or simply put, asking and answering questions. The reason that this approach continues to be glorified after thousands of years is simple - it engages students and stresses understanding over memorization. So this text covers standard topics in a standard sequence, but does so through asking a carefully constructed series of questions along with their individual answers.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: C. J. Skender, Joe Ben Hoyle

Fundamentals of Business, First edition

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Fundamentals of Business (2016) is an openly licensed (CC BY NC SA 3.0) textbook designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business. This work is a project of University Libraries and the Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech. A new version of this book was released in August 2018. See http://hdl.handle.net/10919/84848 for more details. If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook, please help us understand a little more about your use by filling out this form http://bit.ly/business-interest See also the faculty sharing portal at: https://www.oercommons.org/groups/fundamentals-of-business-user-group/1379

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Author: Stephen J. Skripak

Fundamentals of Business, Second Edition

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Fundamentals of Business, Second Edition (2018) is an 372-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license. 2018 version formats include: PDF, Accessible "screen reader friendly" PDF, ePub, Mobi, XML/Pressbooks (editable), and open document format. The Pressbooks online version (HTML) is available at: https://doi.org/10.21061/fundamentals-of-business The 2016 version of this book includes editable MSWord files. If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook, please help us understand your use by filling out this form http://bit.ly/business-interest Instructor resource sharing portal: https://www.oercommons.org/groups/fundamentals-of-business-user-group/1379

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Author: Skripak Stephen J

Strategic Management

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Strategic Management (2020) is a 343-page open educational resource designed as an introduction to the key topics and themes of strategic management. The open textbook is intended for a senior capstone course in an undergraduate business program and suitable for a wide range of undergraduate business students including those majoring in marketing, management, business administration, accounting, finance, real estate, business information technology, and hospitality and tourism. The text presents examples of familiar companies and personalities to illustrate the different strategies used by today’s firms and how they go about implementing those strategies. It includes case studies, end of section key takeaways, exercises, and links to external videos, and an end-of-book glossary. The text is ideal for courses which focus on how organizations operate at the strategic level to be successful. Students will learn how to conduct case analyses, measure organizational performance, and conduct external and internal analyses. If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook, please help us understand your use by filling out this form http://bit.ly/strategy-interest How to Access this Book This text is available in multiple formats including PDF, a low-resolution PDF which is faster to download, Open Document Format (ODT), and ePub. It is also available online in Pressbooks at https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/strategicmanagement. Softcover print on demand options are available in color interior (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949373940) or black & white interior (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949373894). The main landing page for this book is: https://doi.org/10.21061/strategicmanagement. Attribution This textbook was adapted for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business capstone course, MGT 4394 Strategic Management, and is shared under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike 3.0 license. It is adapted without attribution to the original 2010 author or publisher at their request. It is adapted from Mastering Strategic Management which was published by the University of Minnesota Publishing in 2015 as an adaptation of the 2010 version. University of Minnesota Publishing reformatted the original text, and replaced some images and figures to make the resulting whole more shareable but did not otherwise significantly alter or update the original 2010 text. Powerpoint slides are available at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102735 A testbank only for instructors is also available at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104179 Instructor Resource Portal in OER Commons https://www.oercommons.org/groups/strategic-management-instructor-group/5209 Table of Contents Chapter 1: Mastering Strategy: Art and Science Chapter 2: Assessing Organizational Performance Chapter 3: Evaluating the External Environment Chapter 4: Evaluating the Internal Environment Chapter 5: Synthesis of Strategic Issues and Analysis Chapter 6: Selecting Business-Level Strategies Chapter 7: Innovation Strategies Chapter 8: Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies Chapter 9: Competing in International Markets Chapter 10: Executing Strategy through Organizational Design Chapter 11: Leading an Ethical Organization: Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility About the Author / Editorial and Production Teams Version Notes Glossary This work is published by Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business in association with Virginia Tech Publishing. Suggested Citation Kennedy, Reed. (2020) Strategic Management. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing. https://doi.org/10.21061/strategicmanagement CC BY NC-SA 3.0 Contributors About the Previous Author The publisher of the 2010 version of this book requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This Version Primary Contributor: Reed B. Kennedy Reviewer / Contributors: Eli Jamison, Joseph Simpson, Pankaj Kumar, Ayenda Kemp, Kiran Awate, and Kathleen Manning Cover Design, Illustration, and Alternative Text; Student Reviewer: Kindred Grey Research and Editorial Assistant; Student Reviewer: Kathleen Manning Managing Editor: Anita Walz Production Editor: Robert Browder Copyeditors: Grace Baggett, Lauren Holt ISBN 978-1-949373-94-3 (print-color) ISBN 978-1-949373-89-9 (print-black & white) ISBN 978-1-949373-96-7 (ebook-PDF) ISBN 978-1-949373-95-0 (ebook-Pressbooks) https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/strategicmanagement DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/strategicmanagement Accessibility Virginia Tech Publishing is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The HTML and screen reader–friendly PDF versions of this book utilize header structures and include alternative text which allow for machine-readability.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Awate Kiran, Jamison Eli, Kemp Ayenda, Kennedy Reed, Kumar Pankaj, Manning Kathleen, Simpson Joseph

Electromagnetics, Volume 1

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Electromagnetics Volume 1 by Steven W. Ellingson is a 225-page, peer-reviewed open educational resource intended for electrical engineering students in the third year of a bachelor of science degree program. It is intended as a primary textbook for a one-semester first course in undergraduate engineering electromagnetics. The book employs the “transmission lines first” approach in which transmission lines are introduced using a lumped-element equivalent circuit model for a differential length of transmission line, leading to one-dimensional wage equations for voltage and current. Suggested citation: Ellingson, Steven W. (2018) Electromagnetics, Vol. 1. Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing. https://doi.org/10.21061/electromagnetics-vol-1 CC BY-SA 4.0 Three formats of this book are available: Print (ISBN 978-0-9979201-8-5) PDF (ISBN 978-0-9979201-9-2) LaTeX source files If you are a professor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook please help us understand a little more about your use by filling out this form: http://bit.ly/vtpublishing-updates Additional Resources Problem sets and the corresponding solution manual are also available. Community portal for the Electromagnetics series https://www.oercommons.org/groups/electromagnetics-user-group/3455/ Faculty listserv for the Electromagnetics series https://groups.google.com/a/vt.edu/d/forum/electromagnetics-g Submit feedback and suggestions http://bit.ly/electromagnetics-suggestion Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Preliminary Concepts Chapter 2: Electric and Magnetic Fields Chapter 3: Transmission Lines Chapter 4: Vector Analysis Chapter 5: Electrostatics Chapter 6: Steady Current and Conductivity Chapter 7: Magnetostatics Chapter 8: Time-Varying Fields Chapter 9: Plane Waves in Lossless Media Appendixes A. Constitutive Parameters of Some Common Materials B. Mathematical Formulas C. Physical Constants About the Author: Steven W. Ellingson (ellingson@vt.edu) is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia in the United States. He received PhD and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University and a BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Clarkson University. He was employed by the US Army, Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Raytheon, and the Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory before joining the faculty of Virginia Tech, where he teaches courses in electromagnetics, radio frequency systems, wireless communications, and signal processing. His research includes topics in wireless communications, radio science, and radio frequency instrumentation. Professor Ellingson serves as a consultant to industry and government and is the author of Radio Systems Engineering (Cambridge University Press, 2016). This textbook is part of the Open Electromagnetics Project led by Steven W. Ellingson at Virginia Tech. The goal of the project is to create no-cost openly-licensed content for courses in undergraduate engineering electromagnetics. The project is motivated by two things: lowering learning material costs for students and giving faculty the freedom to adopt, modify, and improve their educational resources. Accessibility features of this book: Screen reader friendly, navigation, and Alt-text for all images and figures. Publication of this book was made possible in part by the Open Education Faculty Initiative Grant program at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/grants

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Textbook

Author: Steven W. Ellingson

Electromagnetics, Volume 2

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Electromagnetics, volume 2 by Steven W. Ellingson is a 216-page peer-reviewed open textbook designed especially for electrical engineering students in the third year of a bachelor of science degree program. It is intended as the primary textbook for the second semester of a two-semester undergraduate engineering electromagnetics sequence. The book addresses magnetic force and the Biot-Savart law; general and lossy media; parallel plate and rectangular waveguides; parallel wire, microstrip, and coaxial transmission lines; AC current flow and skin depth; reflection and transmission at planar boundaries; fields in parallel plate, parallel wire, and microstrip transmission lines; optical fiber; and radiation and antennas. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Preliminary Concepts Chapter 2: Magnetostatics Redux Chapter 3: Wave Propagation in General Media Chapter 4: Current Flow in Imperfect Conductors Chapter 5: Wave Reflection and Transmission Chapter 6: Waveguides Chapter 7: Transmission Lines Redux Chapter 8: Optical Fiber Chapter 9: Radiation Chapter 10: Antennas Appendix A: Constitutive Parameters of Some Common Materials Appendix B: Mathematical Formulas Appendix C: Physical Constants Additional Resources Problem sets and the corresponding solution manuals Slides of figures used in and created for the book LaTeX sourcefiles. Screen-reader friendly version Errata for Volume 2 Collaborator portal for the Electromagnetics series https://www.oercommons.org/groups/electromagnetics-user-group/3455 Faculty listserv for the Electromagnetics series Submit feedback and suggestions The Open Electromagnetics Project https://www.faculty.ece.vt.edu/swe/oem Led by Steven W. Ellingson at Virginia Tech, the goal of the Open Electromagnetics Project is to create no-cost openly-licensed content for courses in engineering electromagnetics. The project is motivated by two things: lowering learning material costs for students and giving faculty the freedom to adopt, modify, and improve their educational resources. Books in this Series Electromagnetics, Volume 1 https://doi.org/10.21061/electromagnetics-vol-1 Electromagnetics, Volume 2 https://doi.org/10.21061/electromagnetics-vol-2 To express your interest in a book or this series, please visit http://bit.ly/vtpublishing-updates

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Textbook

Author: Steven W. Ellingson

Aerospace Structures

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Aerospace Structures by Eric Raymond Johnson is a 600+ page text and reference book for junior, senior, and graduate-level aerospace engineering students. The text begins with a discussion of the aerodynamic and inertia loads acting on aircraft in symmetric flight and presents a linear theory for the status and dynamic response of thin-walled straight bars with closed and open cross-sections. Isotropic and fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials including temperature effects are modeled with Hooke’s law. Methods of analyses are by differential equations, Castigliano’s theorems, the direct stiffness method, the finite element method, and Lagrange’s equations. There are numerous examples for the response axial bars, beams, coplanar trusses, coplanar frames, and coplanar curved bars. Failure initiation by the von Mises yield criterion, buckling, wing divergence, fracture, and by Puck’s criterion for FRP composites are presented in the examples. Resources PDFs (book and chapter-level) Problem sets: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104169 LaTeX sourcefiles: Expected spring 2022 Print (Softcover. Does not include appendix): https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949373444. Professors, if you are reviewing this book for adoption in your course, please let us know here: http://bit.ly/interest-aerospace-structures. Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting parts or the whole of the text are especially encouraged to sign up.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Eric R. Johnson

Construction Contracting: Business and Legal Principles, Second edition

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About Construction Contracting: Business and Legal Principles, 2nd edition by Stuart H. Bartholomew: Exceptionally practical and authoritative, this introduction to construction contracting as it applies to typical, every-day situations explains “theoretical” ideas in terms of what really happens in practice. It emphasizes the more common case law holdings and industry customs that help avoid troublesome legal issues during the completion of a project. - Provided by previous publisher. Have you adopted this book for a course? We'd love to know. Please complete the adoption form at: https://bit.ly/construction_contracting Find me free online in PDF at https://doi.org/10.21061/constructioncontracting2e Find me free online in Pressbooks at https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/constructioncontracting Table of Contents 1. Interface of the Law with the Construction Industry 2. Contract Formation, Privity of Contract, and Other Contract Relationships 3. The Prime Contract - An Overview 4. Prime Contract - Format and Major Components 5. Owner-Construction Contractor Prime Contract "Red Flag" Clauses 6. Labor Agreements 7. Purchase Order and Subcontract Agreements 8. Insurance Contracts 9. Surety Bonds 10. Joint-Venture Agreements 11. Bid and Proposals 12. Mistakes in Bids 13. Breach of Contract 14. Contract Changes 15. Differing Site Conditions 16. Delays, Suspensions, and Terminations 17. Liquidated Damages, Force Majeure, and Time Extensions 18. Allocating Responsibility for Delays 19. Constructive Acceleration 20. Common Rules of Contract Interpretation 21. Documentation and Records 22. Construction Contract Claims 23. Dispute Resolution Published in 2002 as ISBN 1-13-091055-4 | Rights reverted to estate 2022 | Published by the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech 2022 as ISBN 978-1-957213-20-0 under CC BY NC SA 4.0. (c) Estate of Stuart H. Bartholomew. Released with permission by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial- ShareAlike (CC BY NC-SA) 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode This material was previously published by Pearson Education, Inc. Any derivatives of this work must comply with the requirements of the Creative Commons license and include the following statement, “This material was previously published by Pearson Education, Inc.” Accessibility Statement: The Open Education Initiative at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The PDF and online versions of this book utilizes header structures and alternative text which allow for machine readability and navigation. Note to users: This work may contain components (e.g., illustrations, or quotations) not covered by the license. Every effort has been made to identify these components but ultimately it is your responsibility to independently evaluate the copyright status of any work or component part of a work you use, in light of your intended use.

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Author: Stuart H. Bartholomew

Let's Get Writing!

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A freshman composition textbook used by the English Department of Virginia Western Community College (VWCC) in Roanoke, Virginia. It aligns with ENG 111, the standard first-year composition course in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). The ten chapter headings are: 1. Chapter 1 - Critical Reading 2. Chapter 2 - Rhetorical Analysis 3. Chapter 3 - Argument 4. Chapter 4 - The Writing Process 5. Chapter 5 - Rhetorical Modes 6. Chapter 6 - Finding and Using Outside Sources 7. Chapter 7 - How and Why to Cite 8. Chapter 8 - Writing Basics: What Makes a Good Sentence? 9. Chapter 9 - Punctuation 10. Chapter 10 - Working With Words: Which Word is Right? This book was created by the English faculty and librarians of VWCC using Creative Commons -licensed materials and original contributions.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Ann Moser, Elizabeth Browning, Jenifer Kurtz, Katelyn Burton, Kathy Boylan, Kirsten Devries

Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students

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Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of common cardiovascular diseases, disorders and pathologies. This text is designed for a course pre-clinical undergraduate medical curriculum and it is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) content guidelines. The text is meant to provide the essential information from these content areas in a concise format that would allow learner preparation to engage in an active classroom. Clinical correlates and additional application of content is intended to be provided in the classroom experience. The text assumes that the students will have an understanding of basic cardiovascular physiology that will be helpful to understand the content presented here. This resource should be assistive to the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation given the material is presented in a succinct manner, with a focus on high-yield concepts. The 70-page text was created specifically for use by pre-clinical students at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and was based on faculty experience and peer review to guide development and hone important topics. Available Formats ISBN 978-1-957213-02-6 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-957213-03-3 (ePub) ISBN 978-1-957213-04-0 (print) https://www.amazon.com/Cardiovascular-Pathophysiology-Pre-Clinical-Students-Andrew/dp/1957213043 ISBN 978-1-957213-01-9 (Pressbooks) https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/cardiovascularpathophysiology Also available via LibreTexts: https://med.libretexts.org/@go/page/34347 How to Adopt this Book Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting parts or the whole of the text are requested to register their interest at: https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical. Instructors and subject matter experts interested in and sharing their original course materials relevant to pre-clinical education are requested to join the instructor portal at https://www.oercommons.org/groups/pre-clinical-resources/10133. Features of this Book 1. Detailed learning objectives are provided at the beginning of each chapter; 2. High resolution, color contrasting figures illustrate concepts, relationships, and processes throughout; 3. Subsection summary tables 4. End of chapter lists provide additional sources of information; and 5. Accessibility features including structured heads and alternative-text provide access for readers accessing the work via a screen-reader. Table of Contents 1. Arrhythmias 2. Heart Failure 3. Hypertension 4. Valvular Disease 5. Heart Sounds and Murmurs 6. Congenital Heart Disease 7. Ischemic Heart Disease Suggested Citation Binks, Andrew., (2022). Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students, Roanoke: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. https://doi.org/10.21061/cardiovascularpathophysiology. Licensed with CC BY NC-SA 4.0. About the Author Dr. Andrew Binks is a cardiopulmonary physiologist who gained his BSc (Hons) in Physiological Sciences at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, then a MSc in Human and Applied Physiology from King’s College, London. He returned to Newcastle to do his PhD and study the underlying physiological mechanisms of dyspnea, the cardinal symptom of cardiopulmonary disease. He continued investigating dyspnea at Harvard School of Public Health as a postdoctoral fellow and then as a research scientist. After seven years at Harvard, Andrew took his first faculty position at the University of New England where he taught cardiovascular and pulmonary physiology to health profession and medical students. He continued to teach medical students their heart and lung physiology after moving to the University of South Carolina’s Medical School in Greenville where he also directed the school’s heart and lung pathophysiology courses. Andrew currently teaches heart and lung physiology and pathophysiology at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, directs the heart and lung pathophysiology course and has also served as the departmental director of faculty development. In his two decades of teaching medical physiology, Andrew has regularly drawn upon his dyspnea research experience to generate an active, clinically focused approach to medical education. This book is part of that approach and supports students preparing for class with the basic information with the intention to apply and contextualize that information in a guided case-based classroom experience. Andrew has published numerous peer-reviewed research papers and book chapters about dyspnea and about contemporary medical education. He has also given keynote presentations, faculty workshops and international webinars to promote effective medical education for the modern adult learner. Accessibility Note The University Libraries at Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech Publishing are committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The HTML (Pressbooks) and ePub versions of this book utilize header structures and include alternative text which allow for machine-readability. Please report any errors at https://bit.ly/feedback-preclinical

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Andrew Binks

Adopting Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

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VCCS's "Pathways" Course provides faculty with an introduction to the laws that influence the use, re-use, and distribution of content they may want to use in a course. Activities include finding openly licensed content for use in a class and publishing openly licensed works created by faculty. At the end of the course, students will have openly licensed content that will be ready for use in a course.

Material Type: Full Course, Textbook

Author: Linda Williams

Library Class Sessions for Research Methods in Building Construction: Evaluating Sources

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Using source evaluation as the theme, discussed different article types such as government reports, case studies, literature reviews, peer-reviewed scholarly articles, law reviews, self-published articles, and the value of each. Class included a hands-on activity with worksheet.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Leslie Mathews, Virginia Pannabecker

Open Access Discussion Session - Psychology Graduate Course

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This OER Package includes a description, lesson plan, and materials for a discussion session addressing: Why are open research practices, open access, and author rights important to Psychology graduate students? How might tools and resources related to these impact choices graduate students may make in research design, research practice and documentation, and venues for sharing research results? This session included a pre-class reading assignment and an in-class session with discussion and hands-on activities. The topics of focus were: open research practices, open access, and selecting publication venues for sharing research. These topics were discussed in the context of authorship as experienced by students in undergraduate and graduate programs, including course papers, theses and dissertations, conference presentations, and journal article publishing. Discussions were based on three readings completed prior to the in-class session that covered aspects of: open access, peer review, and open research practices. The class also discussed evaluation criteria to use when selecting a publication venue.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Virginia Pannabecker

Differentiating Between Open Access and Open Educational Resources

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Differentiating open access and open educational resource can be a challenge in some contexts. Excellent resources such as "How Open Is It?: A Guide for Evaluating the Openness of Journals" (CC BY) https://sparcopen.org/our-work/howopenisit created by SPARC, PLOS, and OASPA greatly aid us in understanding the relative openness of journals. However, visual resources to conceptually differentiate open educational resources (OER) from resources disseminated using an open access approach do not currently exist. Until now. This one page introductory guide differentiates OER and OA materials on the basis of purpose (teaching vs. research), method of access (analog and digital), and in terms of the relative freedoms offered by different levels of Creative Commons licenses, the most common open license. Many other open licenses, including open software licenses also exist.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Author: Walz Anita

Voices of Virginia: an Auditory Primary Source Reader

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Voices of Virginia pulls together stories from oral history collections from across decades and archives to create an all-audio source companion for Virginia’s high school and college students. The "album" is only two hours long, but contains dozens of short oral histories from eyewitnesses to key moments in American history, from the end of the Civil War to the 1980s. The excerpts are downloadable, accessible by smartphone, and accompanied by a transcript. Audio clips are also available on Soundcloud. You’ll also find a brief introduction to each narrator, historical context adapted from experts at Encyclopedia Virginia, American Yawp, and Public Domain sources, and helpful classroom tools like discussion questions, activities, and lesson plans that fit into both the Virginia high school and college U.S. History curriculum. By following the larger national story with narratives from across the Commonwealth, Voices of Virginia grounds students in how history guides and is guided by everyday people and their experiences. This material is aligned to the History and Social Science Standards for Virginia Public Schools - March 2015. The collection was curated by Jessica Taylor, Ph.D. with Emily Stewart. Feedback regarding this collection is welcome at https://bit.ly/VoicesOfVirginia

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Primary Source, Reading

Authors: Emily Stewart, Jessica Taylor

Fundamentals of Business, third edition

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Fundamentals of Business, third edition (2020) is an 370-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license. Read more about the book and see various access links at: https://blogs.lt.vt.edu/openvt/2021/01/06/announcing-open-textbook-fundamentals-of-business-third-edition

Material Type: Interactive, Reading, Textbook

Authors: Ron Poff, Stephen J. Skripak

Class Slides for Strategic Management

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Class slides for Strategic Management are freely-available, screen-reader friendly, openly-licensed, and editable. The slides align with the freely-available open textbook, Strategic Management, which is the required text for Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business undergraduate capstone course, MGT 4394 Strategic Management. The collection includes eleven chapter-level .ppt slides with questions and activities, and additional slide decks with exercises and cases. The open textbook, Strategic Management is freely available in PDF, ePub, Pressbooks, and other formats at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99282 About the license Unless otherwise noted, the book, slides, and contents there in are licensed with a Creative Commons NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC BY NC SA) 3.0 license, which allows anyone to remix, tweak, and build upon the work for uses which are primarily non-commercial. New works must acknowledge the original work and must be licensed under the same CC BY NC SA 3.0 license. See Creative Commons' Best Practices for Attribution for further information: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution. Help us! If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook and/or slides, please help us understand your use by filling out this form http://bit.ly/strategy-interest How to adapt and share the slides Instructors are encouraged to customize the slide deck by adding their own content and examples. According to the Creative Commons BY NC SA license, customized and shared versions of the slides must: - Retain the original copyright statement - Be released under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY NC SA) 3.0 license - Include a link to the original slide deck source: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102735 - Include brief statement regarding whether or not changes were made - List the the name of the adapter. Find, Adapt and Share Resources Instructors are encouraged to share their versions via the Instructor Resource Portal in OER Commons To view the Errata or Report an Error, please see the links at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102735. Accessibility Virginia Tech is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. All figures within the slides have alternative text. This work is published by Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business in association with the University Libraries' at Virginia Tech Open Education Initiative. Contributors: Management Faculty, Pamplin College of Business Reed Kennedy Eli Jamison Other esteemed, former faculty from the Department of Management University Libraries Design and accessiblity: Kylie Call Figure design and editorial: Kindred Grey Project Management: Anita Walz

Material Type: Lecture

Authors: Eli Jamison, Kennedy Reed, Pamplin College of Business

Neuroscience for Pre-Clinical Students

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Neuroscience for Pre-Clinical Students covers neuroenergetics, neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and selected amino acid metabolism and degradation. This USMLE-aligned text is designed for a first-year undergraduate medical course and is meant to provide the essential biochemical information from these content areas in a concise format to enable students to engage in an active classroom. Hence, it does not cover neurophysiology and neuroanatomy; and clinical correlates and additional application of content are intended to be provided in the classroom experience. The text assumes that the students will have completed medical school prerequisites (including the MCAT) in which they will have been introduced to the most fundamental concepts of biology and chemistry that are essential to understand the content presented here. With its focus on high-yield concepts, this resource will assist the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation. The 49-page text was created specifically for use by pre-clinical students at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and was based on faculty experience and peer review to guide development and hone important topics. Available Formats ISBN 978-1-949373-80-6 (PDF) ISBN 978-1-949373-81-3 (ePub) ISBN 978-1-949373-84-4 (print) https://www.amazon.com/Neuroscience-Pre-Clinical-Students-REN%C3%89E-LECLAIR ISBN 978-1-949373-82-0 (Pressbooks) https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/neuroscience Also available via LibreTexts: https://med.libretexts.org/@go/page/35685 How to Adopt this Book Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting parts or the whole of the text are requested to register their interest at: https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical. Instructors and subject matter experts interested in and sharing their original course materials relevant to pre-clinical education are requested to join the instructor portal at https://www.oercommons.org/groups/pre-clinical-resources/10133. Features of this Book 1. Detailed learning objectives are provided at the beginning of each subsection; 2. High resolution, color contrasting figures illustrate concepts, relationships, and processes throughout; 3. Summary tables display detailed information; 4. End of chapter lists provide additional sources of information; and 5. Accessibility features including structured heads and alternative-text provide access for readers accessing the work via a screen-reader. Table of Contents 1. Neuron and astrocyte metabolism 2. Neurotransmitters — ACh, glutamate, GABA, and glycine 3. Neuropeptides and unconventional neurotransmitters 4. Amino acid metabolism and specialized products Suggested Citation LeClair, Renée J., (2022). Neuroscience for Pre-Clinical Students, Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing. https://doi.org/10.21061/neuroscience. Licensed with CC BY NC-SA 4.0. About the Author Renée J. LeClair is an Associate Professor in the Department of Basic Science Education at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, where her role is to engage activities that support the departmental mission of developing an integrated medical experience using evidence-based delivery grounded in the science of learning. She received a Ph.D. at Rice University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute in vascular biology. She became involved in medical education, curricular renovation, and implementation of innovative teaching methods during her first faculty appointment, at the University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine. In 2013, she moved to a new medical school, University of South Carolina, School of Medicine, Greenville. The opportunities afforded by joining a new program and serving as the Chair of the Curriculum committee provided a blank slate for creative curricular development and close involvement with the accreditation process. During her tenure she developed and directed a team-taught student-centered undergraduate medical course that integrated the scientific and clinical sciences to assess all six-core competencies of medical education. Accessibility Note The University Libraries at Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech Publishing are committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The HTML (Pressbooks) and ePub versions of this book utilize header structures and include alternative text which allow for machine-readability. Please report any errors at https://bit.ly/feedback-preclinical

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Author: Renee LeClair