Business

Accounting

I was talking to our Accounting program faculty chair about adopting OER for the Principles of Accounting I & II course. They are currently using McGraw Hill’s Fundamental Accounting Principles with Connect Plus (costs $252 for new).  He said that they have found the homework manager insufficient in some of the OER they have already looked. They are really interested in OER but the Connect Plus platform makes it so easy for them to teach this gateway course.
For those of you who are using OER for the Principles of Accounting, how did you address this concern from faculty? What are the ancillaries you're using?

We haven't made the full shift yet, but my faculty liked Lumen's Principles of Accounting and My Open Math. I'm pretty sure they have a Waymaker version.

I have looked through the archived email for this group and was able to find a brief decision on the need for an online homeworking system for accounting students. The referred to conversation was a year ago so I am holding out hope to learn of more recent developments or suggestions. I have an amazing accounting faculty who strongly desires to offer a zero textbook cost course and has no problem with the books available. Her concern is she knows it won’t be possible for her to give the same instant feedback students need and receive in the connect accounting homeworking system.  Does anyone have an accounting instructor contact who has successfully moved away from a publisher homework system I might connect her with?  She desperately wants to offer a course free to students but does not want their learning to suffer because of her choice.
I exchanged email with a professor of ours here at FSCJ who has used MyOpenMath for her Accounting for Managers class. She advised it might be best to start with the Lumen Learning Course List. They have both a financial accounting and a managerial accounting course. I believe the Financial Accounting course is in Lumen OHM, their new Online Homework Manager, derived from MyOpenMath. I don’t know if Managerial Accounting is connected yet to OHM or if it uses MyOpenMath.

We are using Lumen OHM for the Financial Accounting course for online homework, but they don’t have the online homework piece for managerial and they don’t have a plan as of now to create it.

Our Accounting faculty are also wanting an online homework piece as well for the Accounting courses but the choices are slim to none.

It may also be possible (based on the instructor's time and your institution's resources) for the instructor to create their own homework set (we use Blackboard, which allows you to share pools and tests once they are created, as well as tagging the questions when you create them with specific feedback (for example, the assigned reading that is relevant to the topic)

I have a faculty member looking for an open textbook or resources for an accounting research course. The course outcomes are:
analyze an accounting financial issue, separate relevant from irrelevant information, identify problems, develop decision alternatives, and identify additional information needed.
navigate FASB Accounting Standards Codification to research accounting issues.
use critical thinking throughout the problem-solving process to ask appropriate questions and consider various alternatives.
write well-organized, grammatically correct correspondence with emphasis on clarity, coherence, and conciseness.
I've directed her to the Mason Metafinder, but does anyone have suggestions of resources they or their faculty are already using for accounting research?

Here's what I know of that's in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=accounting . Note that neither of these options is an OER.
OpenStax has two accounting books in their new business series: https://openstax.org/subjects/business

I am looking for an OER that has learning resources included. Such as videos, quizzes, and more, for Principals of Accounting.

Hello Megan, if you use Canvas  there are a lot of accounting courses for OER in Canvas Commons

My Accounting faculty have been using OpenStax Principles of Accounting, volume 1 (Financial Accounting) and
2 (Managerial Accounting) as textbooks, but a homework set through Cengage that covered the same material.
Now it seems that Cengage is discontinuing the homework site, and my faculty are looking for options,
preferably something that can be put into Canvas (or another LMS).
Are there options out there? Does anyone have recommendations?

LibreTexts new open homework system, ADAPT, has the ability to import into an LMS.
Instructors can use ADAPT to augment existing and newly constructed OER textbooks with summative exercises and embed them in LMSs,
 LibreTexts textbooks, in a standalone application, and in-class clickers.
The ADAPT homework system empowers faculty to build and use existing questions in multiple modalities:
(1) formative vs. summative, (2) autograded vs. open-ended grading, and (3) embedded via LMSs, textbooks, clickers, or stand-alone application.
It also includes an analytics infrastructure to provide real-time learning analytics to instructors on student progress with pre-defined learning objectives.
Also, it will be provided to all educators in California free of charge for the at least the next four years thanks to funding
from the CELL and the State of California. It is available to educators in any state as well for a super low price point
(currently around $30 per student per year).
If you'd like to know more, please reach out any time, and check out our LibreTexts YouTube channel for some recent videos on how ADAPT works.

Does anybody know of any accounting courseware, either OER or low-cost that provide for example integrated Excel, Journal Entries,
T Accounts, Income Statement simulations?
We are looking for OER or low-cost alternatives to McGraw Hill Connect.

Lumen Learning has developed a Financial Accounting OER course.
Here’s the contact information
kiana@lumenlearning.com

We are currently transitioning to OER for our Accounting courses (Managerial and Financial Accounting).
While we have found excellent OER textbooks, we are exploring suitable platforms and alternatives to MindTap that can effectively simulate
accounting software. Does anyone have recommendations, even if they are more basic options or low cost?
Additionally, we would love to hear what solutions others are implementing in place of these types of software in your courses.

OpenStax has partnered with 16 education technology companies to offer low-cost learning technology aligned with our financial accounting
and managerial accounting textbooks. Our accounting partners can be found here; please select
"Principles of Accounting Volume 1: Financial Accounting" and
 "Principles of Accounting Volume 2: Managerial Accounting" under the "Books" filter to explore the accounting technology options.

Agriculture

I am looking for OER material on Agriculture, and more specifically the business, marketing/sales, and economic side of this field.

You may want to review:
https://newprairiepress.org/ebooks/28
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets
Andrew Barkley, Kansas State University
PDF, EPUB, and Kindle versions with chapter only downloads in PDF.

Business Law

Some of my colleagues are researching materials to use in a survey Business Law course, so I am reaching out to see if anyone has created or knows of open Business Law texts that could be used in a sophomore-level course. 
The Business Law course is intended for managers of business and covers the topics of employment law, torts, contracts, intellectual property, and business forms. One of the core requirements is giving students an intro to the business legal world and ethics. 

One of our business faculty at LBCC customized and updated Saylor's Business Law and the Legal Environment text last year. You can find the LBCC version in our institutional repository.

Our “Legal Environment of Business” faculty uses a combo of:
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-legal-and-ethical-environment-of-business
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/foundations-of-business-law-and-legal-environment

We are about to teach our Beta version of Business Law I. This was recently developed as an online course from multiple sources. The following are the major sources for almost all of the content:
Business Law and the Legal Environment – Saylor Academy - https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-law-and-the-legal-environment-v1.0-a/index.html
Business and the Legal and Ethical Environment - https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/business-and-the-legal-and-ethical-environment/index.html
Basics of Business Law – Lumen Learning - https://courses.lumenlearning.com/masterybusinesslaw/
Legal Basics for Entrepreneurs - https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/legal-basics-for-entrepreneurs/index.html

What are folks using for introductory-level paralegal and business law courses?

OpenStax just came out with a Business Law Essentials https://openstax.org/details/books/business-law-i-essentials . Our faculty are currently taking a look at switching to it.

We just finished integrating the OpenStax textbook to complement the FlatWorld textbook in our business library and both are ready for remixing for a customized Remix:
https://biz.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Law
We are working on a third text, but not ready to show.

Another option from an Oregon instructor: http://libarchive.linnbenton.edu/concern/open_educational_resources/ns064618f?locale=en
This is based on an adaptation of Business Law and the Legal Environment by the Saylor Academy.

My name is Melissa Randall and I am currently writing a business law textbook with my students as part of an OER grant funded by the State of Colorado. It is written for the 200-level undergraduate business law class required for business majors.
The textbook will be publicly available in Spring 2020. In the meantime, anyone interested in learning more about what will be in the text, supplemental OER resources we use in class, or the open pedagogy approach we implemented is welcome to contact me directly. My email is Melissa.Randall@ccd.edu .

Business and Professional Writing

One of our instructors is looking for an open textbook on business and professional writing. What do you recommend?

How about these two books? They get great reviews!

https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx

I'm in search of a Human Resource management open textbook. (Not the flatworld one) 
Would the Saylor book work for you? Tillamook Bay Community College is currently using it: https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_human-resource-management/

Does anybody know of ancillaries such as student supplements or assessments that have been developed for Exploring Business – either the Saylor or the UMN versions?
There is an Intro to Business course at https://piercemil.instructure.com/courses/1264001 under demo courses. Feel free to use any ancillaries there.

I have a faculty member who is looking for an open textbook and/or other OER that covers the below business topics. Any suggestions?
- Business Communication
- Entrepreneurship / Business Planning / New Venture Development
Saylor has a Business Comm for Success book:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-communication-for-success/
And Business English for Success:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_business-english-for-success/
And a Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship book:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_sustainability-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/
And a book on Developing New Products and Services:
https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_developing-new-products-and-services/

Business and Information Technology

I'm assisting a counseling faculty member who is seeking OER content to support a new course to begin fall 2020. We have found books that are intro to business type and career exploration type but nothing combining the two. Any insight would be helpful. Here is the course description:

This course will introduce students to the main components of identifying a major in business/information technology. Career fields include, but are not limited to, management, marketing, sales, real estate, banking, finance, human resources, database administration, and computer support for business organizations. Through self-assessment students will explore their work interests, personality, skills, values, strengths, and life goals in order to find purpose in their academic curriculum. This course will include career planning, occupational research, and decision-making to formulate a real-world perspective on the local and national opportunities in these fields and the requirements needed to achieve them. Students also gain job search, networking, and interview skills in preparation for an internship search, as well as how to research job trends, salary, employment projections, and educational requirements.

There is an IT Careers module in the Internet Fundamentals course at https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Internet_Fundamentals/IT_Careers  . You could expand on this to add the business careers.

Corporate Training

I have an Ontario college educator seeking open materials for a corporate training and development course. She would be willing to adapt materials to our Ontario context of course.
Might you have suggestions and resources? I'm not seeing a large-scale open textbook, but small-scale would also be amazing.

I agree with Stephanie that corporate training can include a lot of different topics: leadership, team building, sexual harassment, etc. For specific topics, they can search in MERLOT.
I did find this book from BookBoon, How to Increase the Effectiveness of your Training. https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=1152723

A colleague is looking for OER options for an undergrad elective Training Skills and Techniques class in our Business track. My own search has come up dry, surprisingly.  
I would have thought there'd be more material readily available.

There aren't many explicitly "training" materials I've been able to find, but those topics are widely covered under different disciplines,
from Human Resources to Leadership and Business Management. Below are the top options I was able to find with a few quick searches,
but I wish you the best in finding more!
People Learning and Development: Transforming people and organizations through learning
Principles of Leadership & Management
Human Resources Management (Lumen, in Libretexts)
Connecting the Dots: Improving Student Outcomes and Experiences with Exceptional Instructional Design
Additional resources:
Communication Training and Development, Second edition — NOTE: Not technically an OER, but free to access under a CC BY NC ND license.
Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia — NOTE: Not technically an OER, but free to access under a CC BY NC ND license.

Customer Service

I am working with a faculty member who would like to move her course to OER.
The course title is "Customer Service" and falls in the Business and Service Industry Division.
Does anyone have resources (and a text) that might fit? I have checked and can't seem to find something that might work.

There's a Canvas shell for this course being used in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Customer

Economics

I have a faculty member using OpenStax Econ (both micro and macro) textbooks. He really likes the books, but is less happy with the test banks. Does anyone know of alternative test banks for those texts?

If the faculty member is using the Taylor OER textbooks for macro and micro I have heard the same complaint from faculty in our district (VCCCD) - that they don't like the testbanks. To get around this challenge faculty have been adding their own questions, or creating alternative assignments using FED data and graphs, or articles from the news.
I have not moved to OER Econ because of unsatifactory reports I have heard about the testbank and the absence of a free, interactive, workbook. Knewton is still being developed, and not free.

Nearly all faculty at Saddleback College in the Economics Department use Lumen Learning (OER content, not Candela or Waymaker).  The banks are good but already starting to be found by students on the various cheating websites.  We meet as a department once a year to revise the banks to minimize plagiarism.

I am supporting a faculty colleague who will be teaching Environmental Economics beginning this fall.
We haven't found any OERs specific to this subject out there and are wondering if there are resources we've overlooked,
or something that is in production but not yet published.

There are a number of resources on MERLOT:
Material Search Results (merlot.org)
Using MERLOT's search of other libraries:
Other Libraries (merlot.org)
Also:
The Web (merlot.org)

They might find some material in  Energy Markets, Policy, and Regulation  
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability_and_Conservation)/Book%3A_Energy_Markets_Policy_and_Regulation
and
Sustainability - A Comprehensive Foundation (Cabezas)
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability_and_Conservation)/Book%3A_Sustainability_-_A_Comprehensive_Foundation_(Cabezas)
and
The Economics of Food and Agricultural Markets (Barkley)
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Economics/Book%3A_The_Economics_of_Food_and_Agricultural_Markets_(Barkley)

Entrepreneurship

I want to let everyone know that we have two new open textbooks from our Edwards School of Business that have been added to our catalogue. Both are by Professor Lee Swanson and carry a CC-BY-SA license. Please let me know if you know of anyone who adopts these. Thank you.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit - http://openpress.usask.ca/entrepreneurshipandinnovationtoolkit/
The Business Plan Development Guide - http://openpress.usask.ca/businessplandevelopmentguide/

I'm back asking for help for another colleague of mine. She teaches our Business 052: Introduction to Entrepreneurship using Entrepreneurship by Bessant and Tidd (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Entrepre...-9781119221876).
I searched on the archives here, and only really saw an OpenStax option ( https://openstax.org/details/books/entrepreneurship ) but it looks like it's not available, yet. I did pass that on to my colleague to see if it would be helpful.
In the meantime, I've attached our Course Outline of Record, and would love if anyone could point me to any suitable OER. Especially helpful would be resources from instructors who've converted from a textbook similar to the one she's using. But, that might be too much of an ask, so I'll take any help that's out there. Thanks!

Dr. Michelle Ferrier, Ohio University & Liz Mays, Arizona State University and Pressbooks wrote Media Innovation & Entrepreneurship support by the Rebus Community.
Book link: https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/
Book info: https://www.rebus.community/t/project-summary-media-innovation-entrepreneurship/514
 

I'm back asking for help for another colleague of mine. She teaches our Business 052: Introduction to Entrepreneurship using Entrepreneurship by Bessant and Tidd ( https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Entrepreneurship-p-9781119221876 ).
I searched on the archives here, and only really saw an OpenStax option ( https://openstax.org/details/books/entrepreneurship  ) but it looks like it's not available, yet. I did pass that on to my colleague to see if it would be helpful.
In the meantime, I've attached our Course Outline of Record, and would love if anyone could point me to any suitable OER. Especially helpful would be resources from instructors who've converted from a textbook similar to the one she's using. But, that might be too much of an ask, so I'll take any help that's out there. Thanks!

There are a couple of adoptions in Oregon that may be of interest to you: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Entrepreneur

Hotel and Tourism Business

I am working with a Business/Management faculty member looking for OERs for U. S. Hotel & Tourism Business/Management,
especially for any specifically regarding Casinos & Cruise Management.
 
FYI: There is a second and more current edition of the Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC(CC BY) here:  
Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality in BC - 2nd Edition.

Our Hospitality department asked me to look into OER for their new program.
These were the resources I collected for them that were either free or open.
I wasn't able to find anything on cruises or casinos but maybe something in here will be of use!
Hospitality OER Request List

Human Resources

I've been digging through my email trying to find an email re OER for HR and I am coming up empty.
Anyone have anything they'd like to shout out in this area?

While OpenStax does not offer a textbook on HR, they do offer chapters on pertinent HR topics in their business textbooks.
All OpenStax textbooks are available for free online under an open license. I've linked the relevant chapters below:
Introduction to Business: Chapter 8 (Managing Human Resources and Labor Relations)
Organizational Behavior: Chapter 17 (Human Resource Management)
Principles of Management: Chapter 11 (Human Resource Management)
You may find that other chapters in these textbooks are relevant to your HR courses.

We have this version of the Human Resources Management text
https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/humanresourcesmgmt/

Human Relations

I’m helping my Business faculty look for OER for Cañada’s BUS 101: Human Relations. It seems like there isn’t as much out there; so far, I’ve only seen the following:
Sac City College has a remix of Human Relations and Organizational Behavior on LibreTexts
The Open Textbook Library has a new text, Scarbrough’s Psychology of Human Relations, which is an OpenOregon’s project.
(OTL also has another one, but it’s from 2012, so that may not be as good an option for recency.)
OpenStax has Organizational Behavior, but that may only cover some of what is needed.
Is there anything else out there that folks are using?

Here is an Introduction to Human Relations OER collection that one of our Skyline faculty colleagues,
Soledad McCarthy adapted and developed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NNkQKcwfJOxjJMVruN4oXo_qbEllgflb/view?usp=sharing


 

International Trade / International Institutions

I’m seeking OER that addresses international trade and international institutions. This would be for a faculty member who is working on an OER book chapter for International Relations.

Textbooks cataloged in MERLOT include:
International Relations - https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=6051296
International Relations Theory - https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=6051297
History of International Relations - https://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=6051246

Intro to Business

I’ve been given the opportunity to pitch an OER textbook for an Intro to Business class alongside the typical publishers. I know that this committee’s biggest issue with OER is the (perceived) lack of instructional materials (instructor test bank, student self-tests,  simulations, slide sets, etc.).   I’m aware of materials from OpenStax, eCampusOntario, and BCcampus but I’d really like to wow the committee with other possible solutions.
If you know of any additional ancillary materials for Intro to Business topics (esp. the OpenStax text), I would love to hear about them!

Lumen's Intro to Business has lots of faculty resources. You can see the list and request access here -
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wmopen-introductiontobusiness/

There is a faculty member at my institution searching for OER textbooks to teach an Introduction to management and  Introduction to personal finance courses.  Any suggestions?

Check out the OpenStax business series. The management text is there, definitely.
Also, UC Irvine Extention did a personal finance series.

We’ve also uploaded our recently completed Principles of Management (Man2021) course materials into The Orange Grove under the Complete Florida collection.
Finance will be uploaded there in the next few weeks.

For business OER you may want to see the environmental scan conducted in Spring 2019 for eCampus Ontario's by Kyle Mackie:
Slides https://www.kylemackie.ca/business-oer-environmental-scan
Summary report: https://www.ecampusontario.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/2019-04-04-business-oer-summary-report-en-v1.pdf
Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f3BhcWacUsFfZ-toc68_fb0Hwu2foVkifoa8P4NlUWs/edit#gid=0

Management

I’m looking for a Principles of Management for business text – with ancillaries if possible.
Here’s what I’ve found.
Saylor.org  Principles of Management   https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_principles-of-management-v1.1/         
          Republished in 2012
The same appears in Open.unm   https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/principles-of-management
          Publish date 2015 – Reviews 2018 (does that mean it’s been reviewed and would be current?)
Principles of Management – Lumen   Found in Opensuny, OER commons  - it is open?
Merlot – cannot connect because connection not secure – certificate expired yesterday.
I thought I had seen one in OpenStax  
Instructor looking for the most current.  Where would I find the last update?  
The newest edition of the book currently being used is $160 – ouch!

We just released in beta our online OER course development for Principles of Management. Our primary source was the Lumen Learning Principles of Management Course, mixed in with the Boundless Management text for some topics. Quiz pools were available too. All were open. 

  OpenStax will publish a Principles of Management book by the end of Spring 2019, with ancillaries available Fall 2019. 
Thanks, Nicole. For those of you using Canvas, there will be a Canvas course shell for the new OpenStax text about a month after the book is released.  

We have a faculty looking for resources for a Management - Labor Management Relations course. I have found a couple of items via The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM) but they are very old resources. We haven’t had much luck finding a good solid resource covering the majority of these topics.

Another faculty member is looking for resources for her Small Business Management (SBM 2000) course. I’ve shared with her those listed on the OpenOregon resources page and we’ve reviewed resources from OpenStax.
Anyone have any alternative resources that are being used?

You may find the 48 texts we are hosting on the LibreTexts:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=business&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
Also, there are about 20 customized business books at different campuses if you search under "Campus Bookshelves" (many remixed from content found in the "central bookshelves" search above).

I am working with two faculty members who are looking for slide decks for these two books:
Principles of Management https://open.lib.umn.edu/principlesmanagement/
Core Principles of International marketing https://opentext.wsu.edu/cpim/

Here's who is known to use Principles of Management in Oregon:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Principles%20of%20Management
You're welcome to contact the ppl with linked email addresses about their courses to see whether they have decks they could share.

We're developing a new undergrad course in supply chain management to run next fall.  Instructor is reviewing texts now, open to OER options.  
Are there any hidden gems other than the "usual suspects" (OpenStax, OER Commons, etc.)?

These are some supply chain related titles produced out of Conestoga College and in partnership with Fanshawe College in Ontario Canada.
You can find them on the eCampus Ontario Library portal too. There are instructor resources available too. Please find the links below for your convenience.
Global Value Chain
Introduction to Logistics
Procurement in the Supply Chain World

Microsoft Applications

I started to jump for joy when asked to teach a new (to me) business course in the fall so that our department could offer a certificate (4 courses) completely using OER’s. – yes, moving in the right direction, starting small.  However, the one course needed is CGS1101 – Microsoft Applications.  The instructors are using SIMnet software with simulations, recursive learning, immediate feedback, etc.  and not interested in redesigning a course because of the value SIMnet has.    Has anyone experienced this and is there anything out there that can be used?  I’m assuming because of the software from the publisher – McGraw Hill -  it  may be hard to compete/compare. 

Course description: A course designed to use components of the Microsoft Office suite in commonbusiness applications. Students will gain experience in using Word to create and edit documents; Excel to create, modify and chart spreadsheet data;Access to create, edit and manipulate data in databases; and PowerPoint tocreate a professional slide show presentation. Students will complete integration exercises. Windows functions such as file management, e-mail, and Internet Explorer will be addressed briefly.

In response to Request 1, we are using Information Literacy from Lumen Learning in combination with the activities from GCFLearnFree.org. 

GCFLearnFree is not creative commons licensed, so I reached out to them about it and here was their response:

"While our site does not fall under Creative Commons, you can read our Terms of Use to see how specifically you can use our content.

As far as citing us goes, how exactly you do this will depend on the style guide you're using (MLA, APA, Chicago, AP, etc.), but a basic citation should look something like this: GCFLearnFree.org. GoodwillCommunity Foundation. Web. 16 Jan. 2014 (or date accessed). 

You can also list Goodwill Community Foundation as the author/editor.

I hope this helps, but please let me know if you have additional questions. Thanks for using GCFLearnFree.org!"

I'm not certain how much redesign would need to be done for your course, but on our end, it was a matter of matching the current activities with the activities from GCFLearnFree. A moderate amount of time spent, but worth it for us.

Personal Finance

I'm in search of OER (textbook + supplemental materials) on personal finance for a faculty member. We're interested in Siegel and Yacht's "Personal Finance," but the 2009 edition is a little dated. Do you know of any revised editions floating around out there? Open to other possibilities as well.

Our personal finance instructor uses:  https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Personal%20Finance.pdf

Next Gen seems like a great resource - they have a full curriculum with lessons and many resources:  http://nextgenpersonalfinance.org/

I am looking if someone is using an OER material/book with no cost for BUSI 1307 Personal Finance course.

I definitely recommend checking out Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy, an OER book published via Temple University.
https://tupress.temple.edu/open-access/north-broad-press/economics-for-life

Hi Syed, here's what I know of that's in use in Oregon:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=personal%20f

Here is a list of OER materials/books on Personal Finance from the Oasis (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search) search tool.
https://oasis.geneseo.edu/basic_search.php?search_query=personal+finance

The three comprehensive course/textbooks all of which have been peer-reviewed:
1. Financial Empowerment: Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-indigenous People
Author: Bettina Schneider, First Nations University of Canada, Saylor Academy
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=5c918b0d-c893-4fd5-a578-45d62a37d383&contributor=&keyword=&subject=
2. Personal Finance Course
Author:Chris Boies
https://www.coursesidekick.com/finance/study-guides/atd-lfcc-personalfinance
3. Personal Finance Textbook
Author: Rachel Siegel - Author / Carol Yacht
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/31

We (LibreTexts) have a couple books that may be of use to you:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?mode=visual&search=%22personal%20finance%22&library=&subject=&location=all&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=&cid=&sort=random
All our pages can be remixed into a customized text if desired as all OER should be.

There's a great book published via Temple University that has a unique spin on this topic:
Economics for Life: Real-World Financial Literacy
by Donald T. Wargo
https://temple.manifoldapp.org/projects/economics-for-life

Greetings! I've got a faculty member who is interested in Personal Finance that was published by Saylor back in 2009.
Would anyone have an update of this text - or something similar and more current?

Our program just published a 2nd edition of Financial Empowerment:
Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People by Bettina Schneider.
The text was originally adapted from the Personal Finance text by Saylor. This edition has been adapted for a Canadian context.
https://opentextbooks.uregina.ca/financialempowermentsecond/

There is a current project going on in Coastline College to update this book and they are going all out with many bells and whistles.
It is being built on LibreTexts; I think they are also working on the homework in ADAPT. I can hook you up if you like.
Delmar
BTW: This is really a flat world knowledge book not Saylor.

Project Management

I am wondering if anyone can help me with finding Project Management course materials or an OER textbook.
I have a faculty member who is new and starting a community college certificate for Project Management and I would love to find some
open educational resources rather than him picking a textbook that is very expensive. Thank you in advance for your help.

Here are a couple I know of:
Project Management by Adriene West, BC Campus
Project Management for Instructional Designers by David Wiley, EdTechBooks I've used this as an instructional designer,
but it also has some guidance useful for project management in any field.

Grad students in our College of Ed updated the Wiley book a couple of years ago.
https://openpress.usask.ca/pm4id/

Here are some OER resources in the LibreVerse that you may take advantage of:
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=Project+Management
As with all OER content hosted in our corpus, it is easily remixed with our Remixer augmented with our autoattribution system for effective compliance
with applicable open licensing. Also, the Conductor side of our Commons&Conductor is a Project Management tool customized for OER construction
( https://commons.libretexts.org  ). I don't know if that would be useful for you but it is free for the public to use.

At Fanshawe, we  worked with a faculty member on the Essentials of Project Management OER. It comes with PowerPoint slides, questions, key terms and H5P

Retail Management

Hi y'all, I'm the new OER Librarian at Tacoma Community College, and this is my first time sending out a call out for OER ideas and suggestions. 

We've got a bit of an OER emergency with a course and program here at TCC, for a Retail Management course (BUS 145), for winter quarter.

There look to be some very promising options at SkillsCommons for retailing -- any experience using or reviews for those resources -- or other OER ideas/suggestions for retail management? 

If it helps, here's a summary/paraphrasing of BUS 145 Course Learning Outcomes:

What is retailing and career opportunities in retailing
Trends shaping today's retailers and different types of retailers
Unique costumer benefits offered by stores, catalogs, and internet retail channels
How technology affects the future shopping experience
Factors affecting customer purchase decisions
Retail strategies
Types of locations available to retailers
Human resources in retail management
Consumer-retailer and vendor-retailer communications
Customer relationship management
Build brand equity for stores and merchandise
Employee recruitment, motivation, training, and evaluation for salespeople and store managers

We are currently using this textbook: http://www.textbookmedia.com/Products/ViewProduct.aspx?id=3859

Retailing: Integrated Retail Management, 2nd edition


It is not OER, but it is an excellent book and students can read it online for $29.95 or purchase a digital bundle for $36.95. Compared to $260 for Retailing Management (Levy) from Amazon, it is an excellent value. And, again, it is an excellent book.

Savings and Investment

I'm looking for OER materials for a savings and investment course that focuses on stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and real estate.
As you can imagine, searching OER services for information on "savings" and "investment" produces a lot of results about OER, but not necessarily OER about savings and investment.
If anyone has a course or collected material, I'd appreciate hearing about it. I've found many results in sources like OER commons, but not necessarily a textbook or full course focused on this topic.  Any additional help is appreciated.

I've worked with a couple of faculty members at Nassau Community College to design an OER Personal Finance course. This is their recommendation: 
We found a book from Saylor that we think is very good.   The link is below.  I hope this is helpful!
https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/textbooks/Personal%20Finance.pdf

Social Media Marketing

I have a business professor who is looking for OERs on Social Media Marketing.
We’ve found some chapters from Intro texts and the like; however, they have been a bit broad in scope.
What we’re looking for are works that cover these topics:
History of Social Media Marketing
Visual Storytelling through Social Media (or as part of Social Media Marketing)
Mobile Marketing on Social Networks
Future of Social Media Marketing

Red & Yellow's eMarketing textbook (which is CC BY-NC-SA) contains some, but not all, of what you are looking for.
They have a couple chapters dedicated exclusively to social media. Social media is also embedded in other chapters.
In particular, I like their "Future of Advertising" chapter.
Direct Download:
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/RY_eMarketing_ed7.pdf
Red & Yellow site:
https://www.redandyellow.co.za/textbook/

OpenStax offers a free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed Principles of Marketing textbook featuring a chapter titled "Direct, Online, Social Media, and Mobile Marketing."
 

Store Operations

I'm hoping someone may have found a textbook to use with a Store Operations course. I've been able to find some of the content requested in basic business and/or marketing textbooks, but am having trouble finding content that includes the following topics:  Best practices in retail Loss Prevention, Best practices in retail visual merchandising, Best practices in retail inventory management, How to create a communication plan, How to start your own retail business  DiSC Personality Profiles

I searched for a similar course and didn't find too much OER, but did find a decent number of relevant e-books in the O'Reilly/Safari Books platform, if your library has access to this database.  As for OER I found the following:
https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/lets-go-shopping/
https://www.cteonline.org/curriculum/outline/retail-merchandising-cte-online-model/ktnU1c