New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library OER Team’s weekly roundup of new and noteworthy OER. We try to include at least one OER relevant to each school at City Tech in every post. At the end of the month, these resources will be compiled and distributed by the library liaison for your department. Please contact us if you know of new or particularly interesting OER to share with our colleagues or would like more information about OER initiatives at City Tech.

Arts & Sciences

  1. Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice, by  Kristen A. Munger, Open SUNY Textbooks (2016). License: CC BY-NC-SA
    “Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to scientifically-based literacy research, early literacy development, literacy assessment, digital age influences on children’s literature, literacy development in underserved student groups, secondary literacy instructional strategies, literacy and modern language, and critical discourse analysis.”

  2. Radicalize the Hive, by Angela Roell, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries (2020). License: CC BY-NC
    “This book is a collection of stories from the field and resources for new and intermediate beekeepers interwoven with [the author’s] own experience as a beekeeper over the last decade.”

 

Professional Studies

  1. The Complete Subjective Health Assessment, by Lapum, St-Amant, and Hughes, Open E-textbook, Ryerson University (2019). License: CC BY-SA
    “This textbook is designed for the novice learner who is seeking to develop a foundational understanding of the complete subjective health assessment in the context of health and illness. The textbook deconstructs the categories of the complete subjective health assessment, providing learners with explanations and examples of what constitutes relevant subjective data.”

  2. Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition : Volume 7. Injury Prevention and Environmental Health, by Mock, Charles N.; Nugent, Rachel; Kobusingye, Olive; Smith, Kirk R., Open Knowledge Repository (2017). License: CC BY
    “The substantial burden of death and disability that results from interpersonal violence, road traffic injuries, unintentional injuries, occupational health risks, air pollution, climate change, and inadequate water and sanitation falls disproportionally on low- and middle-income countries. Injury Prevention and Environmental Health addresses the risk factors and presents updated data on the burden, as well as economic analyses of platforms and packages for delivering cost-effective and feasible interventions in these settings.”

 

Technology & Design

  1. Digital Photography for Graphic Communications, by Richard Adams and Reem el Asaleh, Martin Habekost, Jason Lisi, Art Seto, Ryerson University (2009). License: CC BY
    “The purpose of this book is to serve as a reference for a one-semester course in digital photography for graphic communications. Since digital cameras have mostly replaced colour scanners, graphic communicators need to capture images for use in magazines, catalogs, brochures, packages, signs, banners—all forms of printed materials—and also for eBooks, web sites, and apps.”

  2. Guided Inquiry Activities for Programming Language Concepts (2020) License: CC BY-SA
    “Guided Inquiry Activities for Programming Language Concepts is a collection of activities intended to support the use of POGIL in intermediate-level undergraduate computer science courses on functional programming and the implementation of programming languages.”

 

Cailean Cooney, Assistant Professor, OER Librarian: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
Joshua Peach, Adjunct Reference & OER Librarian: jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu
Joanna Thompson, Adjunct OER Librarian: jthompson@citytech.cuny.edu

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