Geography
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Cultural Geography
Has anyone come across OER for a cultural geography course? Our instructor is already using an open textbook for his world regional geography course, but would like to start using OER for his cultural course, as well. It looks like opengeography.org is down too?
We’re working with Rebus on a new open textbook for our Human Geography course. You can find information on this project here - https://forum.rebus.community/topic/202/human-geography-project-summary?utm_source=Rebus+Community+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0d745d16e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c42869f96a-0d745d16e4-75469793
Physical Geography
We (West Hills Coalinga) are looking for a lab manual for physical geography, does anyone have a resource that you can share? Our faculty here have searched for one but have not been successful in locating one.
I (Jen Bjerke) ran into the same issue so I am piloting my own OER physical geography lab manual this semester at San Bernardino Valley College. I'll be ready to share it sometime this summer. Anyone interested in learning more is welcome to contact me.
The University of Saskatchewan and the University of British Columbia, working with the Rebus Foundation, and in the process of writing a Human Geography textbook.
https://forum.rebus.community/category/39/geo-human-geography-principles-and-applications-lead-paul-hackett-usask
World Geography
Our GEOG department chair is developing a hybrid version of the course and wants to replace the expensive current textbook. OpenStax has nothing, and zero hits of "geography" on Larry Green's mega-list. I found https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_world-regional-geography-people-places-and-globalization/ Anything else?
If you haven’t examined it yet, you may want to check out the resources on this site: http://www.opengeography.org/etextbooks.html Our Geography department has found it useful.
See: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx If the link does not work, go to "open.umn.edu" and search "Geography." Three open textbooks are listed. Good luck.
Thanks, Barbara!
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=335
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=78
We've created a Google doc with links to OERs on this topic. Because we're using it for a course development project, we've limited edit access to our team for now. Thanks, all, for sharing. Larry, feel free to add this to your list.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1citMnTrg2TBTMBukXUeG74XdBITA_a7izQRaNgH4-1I/edit?usp=sharing
I have an instructor who is teaching world geography, she currently uses World Regional Geography: People, Places and Globalization ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=78 ). The problem she is currently facing is access to a free detailed academic atlas. Does anyone know of one that is available?
Hi Kristine, would the CIA World Factbook work? See e.g. "Albania": https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/al.html
Downside is that it is organized primarily by nations, of course
Also, it's a bit of heavy lifting to find/gather, but Wikimedia Commons has pretty good/diverse maps collections, e.g. Albania again: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_Albania
I know little about Wikimedia's "Atlas of the World", but maybe also useful: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Atlas_of_the_world
I searched on MERLOT and found several possibles, although I'm not quite sure what an "academic" atlas would be:
https://www.infoplease.com/atlas/world-atlas-map-library
http://go.hrw.com/atlas/span_htm/world.htm#top
https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
While not technically "an atlas," some of Stanford's GIS resources are open and could possibly be used to simulate an academic atlas.
Like ArcGIS, I believe QGIS (an openly available download) has a bank of maps within the program and has the potential to be used for course material. It may be worth checking out here: https://library.stanford.edu/research/stanford-geospatial-center/software
The two faculty heavily involved with GIS work there, David Medieros and Stace Maples are both incredibly approachable (I interned as an MLIS student in their department) and their contact information is located here: https://library.stanford.edu/research/stanford-geospatial-center/about-us
They may have suggestions for open sources based on your faculty member's course needs.
Weather and Climate
Help! I have an instructor who is looking for Physical Geography and Weather and Climate. Any suggestions?
Here's what I have from a survey of California Community College faculty - the data were never compiled.
https://www.earthonlinemedia.com/ebooks/tpe_3e/title_page.html (The Physical Environment) (Identified by multiple respondents)
https://serc.carleton.edu/resources/22397.html (Fundamentals of Physical Geography)
Physical Geog- search online for Michael Ritter’s The Physical Environment. It was free but copyrighted. He recently changed the license to OER. Also check out Adam Dastrup’s website: opengeography.org. Dastrup is using Pressbooks and they look empty initially because he didn’t write intros, but use the TOC and you’ll find great content. Not sure about weather & climate.
Yes, I have three chapters related to the atmosphere, weather, and climate as part of my Introduction to Physical Geography OER textbook. Yes, I need to add info in the introduction, but I’ve been too focused on the main chapters right now. Feel free to use these any way you need, including the embedded videos and links to other sources.
Chapter 9: The Atmosphere
Chapter 10: Weather Processes and Systems
Chapter 11: Global Climates and Change
Instructors in Oregon are using a combination of previously shared and original content for Physical Geography: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=Physical%20Geography
I know of one open meteorology course being taught: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=meteor
For climate change, instructors are using library ebooks.
In addition to all the great resources mentioned previously, I would like to mention that we just integrated Brune's Fundamentals of Atmospheric Science text into our Geosciences library and is ready for easy remixing.
https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Meteorology/Book%3A_Fundamentals_of_Atmospheric_Science_(Brune)
It may be a more more advanced than you are looking for, but can be edited/customized like all our content.