New and Noteworthy is the City Tech Library OER Team’s monthly roundup of new and noteworthy open educational resources. 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 open educational resources initiatives at City Tech.
Anthropology
- Shared Voices: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, by Demetrios Brellas and Vanessa Martinez, ROTEL Project (2023). License: CC BY-NC
“Shared Voices is a student-centered cultural anthropology mini textbook built with an equity lens. This text aims to be accessible, interesting, accurate, and centered on marginalized voices. This text is a starting point for any introductory anthropology course recognizing that cultural change is constant and the familiar is cousin to the weird and unusual.”
Business
- Business Calculus with Excel, by Mike May, Saint Louis University (2024). License: CC BY-NC-SA
“This text is intended for a one semester calculus course for business students with the equivalent of a college algebra prerequisite. Rather than being a three-semester engineering calculus course that has been watered down to fit into one semester it is designed for business students.” - Indigenous Perspectives on Business Ethics and Business Law in British Columbia, by Annette Sorensen and Scott van Dyk, Coast Mountain College (2022). License: CC BY
“This book explores business ethics and business law through the lens of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada (with a focus on British Columbia in particular). It aims to fill a gap in business curriculum and support instructors who want to bring Indigenous content into their classes.”
Career and Technology Teacher Education
- Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education, Anita R. Walz and Julee P. Farley, Virginia Tech (2023). License: CC BY
“Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education is a toolkit of instructional resources designed to support higher education personnel who wish to improve or build strong and generative collaborations between higher education and PreK12 educators.”
Civil Engineering Technology
- Risk and Reliability for Engineers, by Robert Lanzafame, Delft University of Technology (2024). License: CC BY
“This book covers a wide range of topics that involve the use of probability to solve problems in engineering design and research. Although it is relevant for a wide range of disciplines, it draws heavily on the fields of civil engineering, environmental engineering and the geosciences. Specific topics include risk analysis, probabilistic design, reliability-based design (component and system reliability).” - Structural Analysis, by Felix Udoeyo (2024). License: CC BY-NC-ND
“Structural Analysis […] is intended to teach students the methods and techniques for the analysis of structures. A sound knowledge of structures is a prerequisite for their proper design and ensures the structural integrity of civil engineering infrastructural systems. […] The first part consists of an overview of structural analysis and introduces several structural loadings that may be considered during the analysis and subsequent design of structures. The second part covers classic methods of the analysis of determinate structures. The final section discusses classic methods for the analysis of indeterminate structures as well as methods for the analysis and construction of influence lines for indeterminate structures.”
Communication Design
- Writing for Digital Media, by Cara Miller, Anderson University (2024). License: CC BY
“This textbook focuses on writing and digital media. Increasingly, writing is published on digital platforms like social media, websites, and blogs, and this online writing performs a variety of personal, professional, academic, and civic functions. The textbook discusses these functions from a critical and rhetorical perspective and provides practical skills and strategies that students can put into practice in their own digital writing.”
Computer Systems
- An Open Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, by Paul W. Bible and Lucas Moser (2024). License: CC BY
“This textbook serves as a gentle introduction for undergraduates to theoretical concepts in data structures and algorithms in computer science while providing coverage of practical implementation (coding) issues.”
English
- Writing for Digital Media, by Cara Miller, Anderson University (2024). License: CC BY
“This textbook focuses on writing and digital media. Increasingly, writing is published on digital platforms like social media, websites, and blogs, and this online writing performs a variety of personal, professional, academic, and civic functions. The textbook discusses these functions from a critical and rhetorical perspective and provides practical skills and strategies that students can put into practice in their own digital writing.”
Health Sciences & Health Services Administration
- Building Bridges: Establishing a Foundation for Interprofessional Collaboration in Healthcare, by Andrea Nelson, Katherine Greene, and Katie Cavnar, University of West Florida (2024). License: CC BY-NC-SA
“…focuses on teaching interprofessional collaboration in healthcare to students entering their respective health profession’s program. This book will help students achieve success not only in their educational program, but as they experience various healthcare settings through internships and employment. This resource is targeted for students in healthcare professions.”
Human Services
- A Developmental Systems Guide for Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health Practitioners, by Sean E. Snyder, Temple University (2023). License: CC BY
The text “…provides clinicians with actionable evidence-based practices for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of child and adolescent mental and behavioral health. This approach combines developmental psychology and ecological systems in recognition of the fact that children’s developmental challenges, tasks, and capacities intersect with the risks and protective factors of their environment. Chapters feature detailed case studies and conclude with conversations with clinicians in which they share targeted recommendations for patient evaluation, treatment approaches, and family engagement and support.” - Social Work Practice and Disability Communities: An Intersectional Anti-Oppressive Approach, by Elspeth Slayter and Lisa Johnson, Salem State University (2023). License: CC BY-NC-SA
“Designed as a main textbook for social work courses at the bachelor’s and master’s level or for social work practitioners in the field, this work moves beyond a traditional medicalized and segregated approach (i.e., chapters organized around impairments) to the exploration of disability-specific populations, instead taking a more intersectional approach in discussing specific service areas and practice issues while weaving in stories about the lived experiences of disabled people with a range of social identities.”
Mathematics
- Carnegie Math Pathways, by Carnegie Math Pathways/WestEd (2024). License: CC BY-NC
“For more than a decade, Carnegie Math Pathways has been guided by a mission to improve outcomes and close equity gaps in gateway college mathematics. Now, Carnegie Math Pathways at WestEd has taken its commitment to equity a step further by releasing its Quantway and Statway materials as Open Educational Resources (OER).” - Quantway Core, by Carnegie Math Pathways (2024). License: CC BY-NC
“provides a one-term introductory quantitative reasoning course solution that builds algebraic and quantitative skills and reasoning. It is designed to replace the developmental sequence and can also be used to fulfill high school and technical college program math requirements.” - Statway Pathway, by Carnegie Math Pathways (2024). License: CC BY-NC
“is a two-term college course solution with integrated developmental math supports built in throughout the course designed to help students fulfill their developmental math requirements and succeed in college-level statistics in a single year.”
Psychology
- Foundations of Psychological Data Science I, by Lawrence Cormack and Franco Pestilli, University of Texas at Austin (2023). License: MIT License
“This course lays the foundation for data science education targeting psychological and brain science students. No previous coding experience is required. The students will be introduced to basic concepts and tools for data analysis. The focus is on hands-on practice and enjoyable learning. The course will use python as the programming language, and Jupyter Notebooks as the development environment (our “home base”) for the examples, tutorials, and assignments. We use Jupyterlab Notebooks because they are both the industry standard and a nice way to load, visualize, and analyze data as well as describe our findings in one environment. We will also learn GitHub to document changes and backup our work and, eventually, for use as a collaboration tool.”
OER Team
Cailean Cooney, Associate Professor, OER Librarian: ccooney@citytech.cuny.edu
Joshua Peach, Adjunct Reference & OER Librarian: jpeach@citytech.cuny.edu
Jo Thompson, Adjunct Reference & OER Librarian: jthompson@citytech.cuny.edu
