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. Teaching Math and Science to Young Children, compiled by Sherese Mitchell, Hostos Community College (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA.
    “In recent years, there has been an increased emphasis on developing and testing new early math curricula.  The development of these curricula was informed by research focused on the mechanisms of learning math, and recent studies that test the impact of early math curricula show that devoting time to specific math activities as part of the school curriculum is effective in improving children’s math learning before and at the beginning of elementary school. Research evidence also suggests that children’s math achievement, when they enter kindergarten, can predict later reading achievement; foundational skills in number and operations may set the stage for reading skills. […] This textbook provides excellent guidance for teaching both math and science to young students.”
  2. Arab Media Systems, edited by Carola Richter and Claudia Kozman (2021). License: CC BY.
    “This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country’s media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contributions from experts in the field of media in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to provide valuable insights into the heterogeneity of this region’s media systems. It focuses on trends in government stances towards media, media ownership models, technological innovation, and the role of transnational mobility in shaping media structure and practices.”


Professional Studies

  1. Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook, by  Jordan R Covvey, Vibhuti Arya, Natalie A. DiPietro Mager, Neyda V. Gilman, MaRanda Herring, Stephanie Lukas, Leslie Ochs, and Lindsay Waddington, Milne Open Textbooks (2020). License: CC BY-NC
    “Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook is a collaboration of over thirty-five experts in public health pharmacy. The twenty-one chapters cover a broad array of topics relevant to pharmacy applications of public health: cross-cultural care, health literacy and disparities, infectious disease, health promotion and disease prevention, medication safety, women’s and rural health and more. Each chapter contains learning objectives and an introduction to the topic, followed by a case and questions. The chapter closes with commentary from the authors and patient-oriented considerations for the topic at hand.”
  2. Like Nobody’s Business: An Insider’s Guide to How US University Finances Really Work, by Andrew C. Comrie, Open Book Publishers (2021). License: CC BY.
    “From flagship public research universities to small, private liberal arts colleges, there are few aspects of these institutions associated with more confusion, myths or lack of understanding than how they fund themselves and function in the business of higher education. Using simple, approachable explanations supported by clear illustrations, this book takes the reader on an engaging and enlightening tour of how the money flows. How does the university really pay for itself? Why do tuition and fees rise so fast? Why do universities lose money on research? Do most donations go to athletics? Grounded in hard data, original analyses, and the practical experience of a seasoned administrator, this book provides refreshingly clear answers and comprehensive insights for anyone on or off campus who is interested in the business of the university: how it earns its money, how it spends it, and how it all works.”


Technology & Design

  1. Traffic Flow Theory: An introduction with exercises, by Victor L. Knoop, TU Delft Open (2021). License: CC BY-NC-SA.
    “Traffic processes cause several problems in the world. Traffic delay, pollution are some of it. They can be solved with the right road design or traffic management (control) measure. Before implementing these designs of measures, though, their effect could be tested. To this end, knowledge of traffic flow theory is needed.”
  2. Engineering Thermodynamics. Thermal Equation of State, by Natalia Muñoz-Rujas, Eduardo Montero, Gabriel Rubio-Pérez, and Mohamed Lifi, Universidad de Burgos Online (2021).  License: CC BY-NC-SA.
    “This video shows, from experimentation, the interdependence of the pressure, volume and temperature properties in fluids, as well as obtaining the vaporization curve (P-T) and the (P-V) diagram of a fluid.”

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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