Erin Fields
Understanding community-university knowledge exchange: A Case Study of the Making Research Accessible Initiative (MRAi)
Author(s):Mandy Choie, Heather O’Brien, Luanne Sinnamon, Nick Ubels
Description:This Open Education Resource focuses on the Downtown Eastside Research Access Portal as a case study for learning about community-university knowledge exchange.
Data Science: A First Introduction (R Version)
Author(s):Tiffany Timbers, Trevor Campbell, and Melissa Lee
Description: This textbook provides an approachable introduction to the world of data science. In this book, you will learn how to identify common problems in data science and solve them with reproducible and auditable workflows using the R programming language.
Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground
Author(s): Ayaka Yoshimizu and Saeko Suzuki
Description:Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground is an open educational resource that engages transpacific histories of interracial sex, intimate labour, and migration—that is, the undercurrent of imperial expansion and settler colonialism in the pacific region throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.
Statistics Labs for Psychology
Author(s): Zakary A. Draper
Description: This lab manual is intended as a resource for gaining experience (1) conducting statistical tests in R, (2) reporting results in APA style, and (3) interpreting those results in the context of a given study.
Open Problem Bank for Physics (OPBP)
Author(s): Firas Moosvi, Jake Bobowski, John Hopkinson, Reza Khanbabaie
Description: The Open Problem Bank for Physics (OPBP) is meant to be used with introductory physics courses that are either calculus or algebra-based. It pairs nicely with the OpenStax College or University Physics textbooks developed by Rice University.
Mythoi Koinoi – An Open Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth
Author(s):Kate Minniti, Tara Mulder, Pippa Rogak, Luoyao Zhang
Description:Mythoi Koinoi: An Online, Open-Access Anthology of Greek and Roman Myth provides undergraduate university students with free, easy access to primary source texts and images for Greek and Roman mythology. Mythoi Koinoi means “Mythology for the People” in Ancient Greek, and it is intended to give everyone who engages with it access to the writings and artistic creations of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
Digging into Canadian Soils – An Introduction to Soil Science
Author(s): Canadian Society of Soil Science
Description: Written entirely by members of the Canadian Society of Soil Science, “Digging into Canadian Soils: An Introduction to Soil Science” provides an introduction to the core disciplines of soil science, and introduces the concepts and vocabulary needed by students just beginning their soil science journey.
UnRoman Romans
Author(s): Siobhán McElduff
Description: UnRoman Romans is a reader on socially stigmatized groups in ancient Rome: actors athletes, dancers, sex workers, and sexual non-conformists. This reader was created as part of a class and uses student-scholars who contributed parts of the reader as a course assignment. It contains out of copyright and original translations of ancient texts, along with introductions, glossaries, images and other explanatory material.
Participatory Publishing : Zines as Open Pedagogy
Author: Alexandra Alisauskas, Erin Fields, and Jessi Taylor
Description:This resource contains a presentation outlining the integration of zines into a Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Course, an outline of the zine assignment, and a zine on using images.
The Mission, the Message, and the Medium – Science and Risk Communication in a Complex World
Author(s):Chelsea Himsworth, Kaylee Byers, and Jennifer Gardy
Description:This textbook covers many of the principles of science communication, as well as the theory and practice of risk communication. The content is divided into three main sections: 1) the ‘mission’ (why you are communicating), 2) the ‘message’ (what you are communicating), and 3) the ‘medium’ (how you are communicating).
The Laws of Settlement – 54 Laws Underlying Settlements Across Scale and Culture
Author(s): Erick Villagomez
Description: Laws of Settlement revives, updates and refreshes the ’54 Laws of Settlements’ outlined in Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis’ seminal book Ekistics: An Introduction to the Science of Human Settlements, making them relevant to the problems we face in the 21st century.
Let’s Read French
Author(s):Somayeh Kamranian, Guy de Maupassant, Alphonse Daudet, and Jean Giono
Description: An open text reader of Public Domain 19th century French Literature with interactive language learning activities. The text could be read by students who have level B1 and B2 (intermediate and upper intermediate) in French, but by adding the synonym of some of the words in English, we tried to make it accessible for the students who have level A2 (elementary level).
Inorganic Chemistry for Chemical Engineers
Author(s): Vishakha Monga, Paul Flowers, Klaus Theopold, William R. Robinson, and Richard Langle
Description: The main objective of this book is to introduce students to the basic principles of inorganic chemistry and link them with current applications relevant to a chemical engineer.
Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Physical Geography, Second Edition
Author(s):Stuart MacKinnon, Katie Burles, Terence Day, Fes de Scally, Nina Hewitt, Crystal Huscroft, Gillian Krezoski, Allison Lutz, Craig Nichol, Andrew Perkins, Todd Redding, Ian Saunders, Leonard Tang, and Chani Welch
Description:
This lab manual is a cross-institutional project from British Columbia (BC), Canada that provides 22 labs to be implemented within first-year post-secondary physical geography courses.
Foundations of Chemical and Biological Engineering I
Author(s):
Jonathan Verrett, Rosie Qiao, and Rana A
Description:This text for chemical and biological engineering contains such topics as carbon capture from power plant emissions and ammonia production for use in fertilizers.
