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An instructor at our community college in Washington State is looking for the following. Although he's interested in local environmental issues, any resources on these topics that you all know about are greatly appreciated.
"I am looking for OER materials I can use with an environmental science class (Local environmental issues) in the fall. I need something that covers the following topics:
Population growth, Sprawl/Land Use, Water resources, Water Pollution, Energy, Waste (household, municipal, hazardous), Air pollution"
This book on sustainability might have some useful components:
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=4e3cc83c-7c80-4dc3-bd3f-40598c6906d8&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Earth
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Check out https://www.skillscommons.org/
This is where the materials from the TAACCCT grant were uploaded. You'll find many courses related to sustainability and a few certificate and degree programs.
You might check out the spreadsheet that an Environmental Science team in Oregon put together when redesigning a course: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1myZvsJA5t_TNsEJ2uAttDk9zfZOyedLsCqWH-ojRy7w/edit?usp=sharing
Looking for two OER:
1) Meteorology for Non-Science Majors
2) Intro Oceanography (Marine Science)
Does anyone have any suggestions or know of OER in development for these subjects?
This book from BCcampus may be useful - https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=52166cd1-e380-4e1b-9a6f-d891936e4749&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Earth,%20Ocean%20&%20Atmospheric%20Science
I have an instructor who is looking for OER - an open textbook for Environmental Health. This course is part of Public Health associate degree program.
You will find many of these topics in our environmental chemistry section: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Chemistry
I am searching for any newly (2021-2022) published OERs in Intro to Environmental Science.
If you have any suggestions, please reply.
I have already reviewed the following:
Canada Environmental Science: A Canadian perspective https://www.oercommons.org/courses/e...science-4/view
2022 Environmental Science: an Open Educational Resource by Sean Whitcomb
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/environmental-science-an-open-educational-resource/view
The Ecosphere and Environmental Issues by Sarah Sojka 2022
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-ecosphere-and-environmental-issues/view
Environmental Issues by Andrew Frank 2020
https://www.oercommons.org/courses/environmental-issues/view
Hi Sandra, here's what's in use in Oregon for ES courses - you might find some recent/relevant materials here:
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Environmental%20Science
You might also take a look at Melissa Ha and Rachel Schleiger's OERI book " Environmental Science" at
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Ecology/Environmental_Science_(Ha_and_Schleiger)
and other books on the LibreTexts' Ecology bookshelf
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Ecology
Climate Change
I am working on a project for another institution to put together a textbook on Climate Change
Judith Sebesta uses quite a few great examples in her book that you could use in your book.
https://pressbooks.pub/climatechangeandfilm/
Earth Science
I'm wondering if anyone knows of Earth Science courses at community colleges? I'm not looking necessarily for materials -- I've found some. I'm looking for people who are happily using OER I might be able to connect our faculty with.
I know just such a person, Eryn Klosko: https://www.sunywcc.edu/academics/school-of-mathematics-science-and-engineering/dr-eryn-klosko/
Eryn's OER courses (including Earth Science) are very impressive. Tell her Elaine Farrally-Plourde sent you...
You should talk to the people at SERC
https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/about/index.html
The Science Education Resource Center is a grant-funded office at Carleton College, founded to improve education in the Earth sciences and beyond.
Today we are a team of 14 educators, researchers and technical specialists who have worked with over 100 award winning education projects across the STEM disciplines and allied fields.
Engaging participants from more than 1,000 institutions of higher education, as well as K-12 curriculum developers and teachers,
we have created one of the world's largest collections of pedagogic resources.
In collaboration with instructors, institutions and national organizations.
Environmental Conservation
Is anyone aware off resources available for Environmental Conservation?
Colby Moorberg from Kansas State University recently published Soil and Water Conservation, An Annotated Bibliography.
We have been collecting some OER resources on our platform that may be useful:
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability)
All ready for easy remixing/editing for customized text/course generation.
Environmental Law
I'm looking for OER in the area of undergraduate environmental law. I've searched Open Textbook Library, OER Commons, OASIS, Merlot, CNX, and general open web search. Ideas?
Have you tried CALI? They have a collection of OER at https://www.cali.org/the-elangdell-bookstore
I know you already searched this but I've had good luck finding legal textbooks on https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks . Sometimes it takes a little digging to find the content.
I did find: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/wetlands-law-a-course-source
I also found this website: https://www.nap.edu/topic/285/environment-and-environmental-studies which has some OER textbooks on specific topics which could possibly be remixed.
Sustainability
I have a faculty member looking for a textbook for a new introduction to environmental science course with a sustainability focus. Here is the course description if that helps with resources:
This course aims to teach students the skills to both define sustainability and to assess if a given process or product can be deemed “sustainable.” Synthesis of fundamental ecological principles and anthropogenic activities will be covered. Conversation about pollution prevention, ecological risk, and remediation will aim to help students become more sustainable world citizens.
This one looks promising, since the first word of the forward is “sustainability” https://cnx.org/contents/JFkrFJcl@1.1:HdWd2hN5@2/Foreword
Hi April, you could also check out Matt Fisher's book: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/envirobiology/
This book from Ohio State might be more supplemental, but it still may have useful components. This is an example of open pedagogy where students at Ohio State actually wrote and maintain this textbook.
https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/sciencebites/
If anyone can help, I have a colleague looking for collaborators to author/remix OER on environmental sustainablity:
As you likely know, the Libretexts has a section on Environmental Engineering that four texts have been integrated:
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Environmental_Engineering_(Sustainability)
I presume this is a good starting point for remixing. I have dreams for this topic to expand enough to be an independent library in our LibreVerse. If you colleague fancies a chat about how to use our platform and existing content effectively, feel free to share my contact info.
Andrew Millison wrote an OER Intro to Permaculture that might be useful for you: https://open.oregonstate.education/permaculture/
Water Quality Monitoring
A faculty member at Saddleback College is looking for OER related to Water Quality Monitoring (ENV 140). I had him look at the three Water Technology resources from College of the Canyons and his feedback was: "These textbooks are directed towards an operator's license at a water treatment plant. These are excellent textbook materials - someone put a lot of effort into preparing them. However, my course has a stronger direction towards understanding regulations, field monitoring and laboratory analysis."
Linn-Benton Community College in Oregon has found library ebooks that work for some of their WW courses: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=ww%20
I'll pass along the info about the open resources in this area from COC (link: http://www.canyons.edu/Offices/DistanceLearning/OER/Pages/COC%20OER%20Textbooks.aspx#Water%20Technology ).