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Aviation

I'm working with an instructor to find a swap for AVI-101 World of Aviation. From the instructor:
"To give you an idea, we used the book Introduction to Aviation in Fall 2020 that was by author Mabonga.
Here is a link to B&N. What I liked was that it covered a variety of topics
and gave just a little bit of info for each (e.g. History, Regulations, Air Traffic Control, Maintenance, Operations, Meteorology).
What I didn't like was it gave TOO LITTLE info for each (literally 3-4 pages on each chapter).
The simplicity made the text feel as if it was designed for Middle School or Freshman of High School.
I would like something that talks a little about each of these topics but with some good information."

A few of our faculty at the University of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard School of Aviation & Aerospace have participated in our OERs program,
but I don’t know of anyone who has just done an introduction to aviation as a whole.  
Profs. Gary Ullrich and Brandon Wilde wrote and published an introductory book on Aviation Safety – it’s available for download from our institutional repository,
the UND Scholarly Commons, at https://commons.und.edu/oers/11/ .
 (It’s been heavily used, and they’re working on a new edition, but this is the one we have thus far.)  
Another faculty member, Fred Remer, did an Aviation Meteorology course.  
I can put you in touch with these folks, if that would help.

 Here's the search results for aviation in Skills Commons: http://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=aviation . 

Brewery and Fermentation

I’m trying to find resources for a freshman level brewing and fermentation course.
See the standards below.
Any resource that covers even one of these topics would be appreciated.
I’ve already looked at Merlot and OER Commons.
I found a little bit in the OER Commons.

This is a great example of a topic where open access materials
(books and articles which are open but might not have been created with an OER audience in mind) can be a great fit!
A few materials I've found are pulled together below:

Journal Special Issues:
Yeast Biotechnology 3.0: This Special Issue is a continuation of the first and second “Yeast Biotechnology”
Special Issue series of the journal Fermentation (MDPI).
This issue compiles the current state-of-the-art of research and technology in the area of “yeast biotechnology”
and highlights prominent current research directions in the fields of yeast micro- and nanobiotechnology,
brewer’s yeasts and beer fermentation, wine yeasts and wine fermentation, coffee bean fermentation and
new developments in biochemicals production by yeasts.
Microbiology of Fermented Foods and Beverages: This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Microbiology of
Fermented Foods and Beverages that was published in the journal Foods (MDPI).
Brewing and Craft Beer: This Special Issue, Brewing and Craft Beer, comprises nine different works by researchers
from five continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Oceania).
This Special Issue reflects thus a broad perspective on the most important questions that concern the researchers in
different parts of the world.
Monographs
Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning: Fundamentals and Strategies: With a focus on achieving product purity at
low cost, Distillation Control, Optimization, and Tuning: Fundamentals and Strategies highlights core concepts.
These include process variables for continuous binary distillation columns and the four basic control strategies,
the distillate and bottoms product quality performance objectives, and the tuning of process control loops.
Brewing Technology: In this book, the discussion encompasses leading-edge brewing technology with fermentation using
a non-Saccharomyces starter, healthy uses of spent grain from brewing processes, and an electronic nose for quality control,
but it also includes descriptions of local traditional alcoholic beverages of Korea and Cameroon.
Here are a couple of smaller-scale OER I've found to complement these:
Wine, Beer, and Alcohol (in Microbiology)
Fermented Foods (in Microbiology)
Fermentation (in Microbiology, Kaiser)
Yeast (in Inanimate Life, Briggs)
Open courseware for Harnessing the Biosphere: Natural Products and Biotechnology
(many open access readings and assignments)
Finally, some free-to-access but not open materials that may prove useful:
Biochemical Engineering Problem Sets & activitites (note: adapted from copyrighted text)
Biochemical Engineering Study materials
And, as I'm sure others will point out, your instructors can supplement these materials with paywalled content,
like additional chapter readings or articles, which can still be made available for students at no cost through services like
Course Reserves.
Some of these materials will necessarily be at a higher level, but if the instructor is willing to do some adaptation or pick out
the more introductory content within them, there is a bit to work from!

We have a set of modules addressing fermentation and food (with emphasis on beer) in our chemistry library:
https://commons.libretexts.org/book/chem-306236
We also had communication with our campus Brewery program about making some of their resources OER;
I will poke them again and see if I can get you something straight from the local brewery.

Child Develompment

I am conducting Child Development/ Early Childhood Education course revisions and looking for OER resources to integrate into the course outline. 

CSU Channel Islands uses ALL OER for its Child Development major
I suggest you contact the coordinator or program chair: https://education.csuci.edu/programs/early-childhood-studies.htm
Also, there are OER for Child Dev on the cool4ed.org site at: http://cool4ed.org/courseshowcase.html#education

There is an ECE OER/ZTC google group which we have been using as a content repository for a wide variety of ECE courses (over 30)!
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/early-childhood-education-oer-collaboration
We also have an ECE OER/ZTC email list and twice monthly conversations if you would like me to add you to that group

City College of San Francisco teaches Chinese Language Child Development courses.
The faculty in this program are seeking Chinese Language (Mandarin and/or Cantonese) OER Child Development textbooks (full books-- not articles or factsheets). Does anyone know of anything out there?
Alternatively, these faculty are willing to translate a Child Development OER to Chinese--  but they would need some kind of funding (the college can't provide it). Does anyone have leads on a funder that might be able to support this (or ideas of organizations to ask)?

You may find what you are looking for in the Open Textbooks for Hong Kong: http://www.opentextbooks.org.hk/

Would anyone happen to know of any good Child and Youth Care OER?

I recommend and use the College of the Cayon's texts in my Early Childhood courses.
Very good! The link below is their OER textbooks, there is a section dedicated to Early Childhood. This may be a place to start.
https://www.canyons.edu/academics/onlineeducation/ztc/textbooks.php

We have an instructor who recommends the College of the Canyons materials as well.
Child Growth and Development
Child, Family, and Community
Observation and Assessment

We have harvested the nice College of the Canyon's texts and 20 others in our ECE bookshelf:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Early_Childhood_Education

Chinese

We are looking for any resources out there on introductory Chinese. Anything you can send our way would be much appreciated.

Here are some for you:
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages/Chinese
and this one is being harvested right now:
https://human.libretexts.org/Under_Construction/Learning_Chinese_-_A_Foundation_Course_in_Mandarin_I_()

Here's one OER from an Oregon community college: 
http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=chinese
 

Deaf Culture

I have an instructor looking for OER materials for his Deaf Culture course. Does anyone have any ideas that I can send his way? 
 
Here is what I found using SUNY Geneseo’s Oasis:
https://oasis.geneseo.edu/basic_search.php
(Thanks, Alexis & team!!)
Below is  ASL, not Deaf Culture.
http://www.ltcconline.net/greenl/oer/oerlistfromlistserve.htm#Sign_Language

I don't know what the scope of the course is, but I just read this wonderful article by Leeann Hunter at Washington State University:
The Embodied Classroom: Deaf Gain in Multimodal Composition and Digital Studies< https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/the-embodied-classroom-deaf-gain-in-multimodal-composition-and-digital-studies/ ? >
According to the "About the Journal" page, it carries a CC BY-NC-SA license.?

Gallaudet University Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center has lots of resources. Many of them are in ASL. Many of them are not OERs, but there are lots of links. Here is the link to the Deaf Culture section: https://www3.gallaudet.edu/clerc-center/info-to-go/deaf-culture.html
The NCCSD is a clearinghouse of projects that were federally funded. https://www.nccsdclearinghouse.org/disability--deaf-studies.html

Design

I’m working with an instructor who is developing a new course on user experience design, design thinking, and prototyping.  

Disabilities

I have a faculty member looking for a textbook for a disabilities class.  She currently uses Educating Exceptional Children by Kirk.  However, this book is very expensive and this faculty person would like an OER alternative.  The name of the class is Disabilities:  Diagnosis and Interventions and here is the description –  “Examines the etiology and symptomology of disabilities, including physical and mental health, modality deficits and language-based learning disabilities.  Students becom familiar with legislation, social policies, diagnosis and treatment, as well as appropriate intervention.”

There may not be a single open book which addresses everything you need, but you may be able to combine this book from BC Campus with journal articles from PubMed or DOAJ.
Here's the book:  Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities & Mental Illness  
https://open.bccampus.ca/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=5872a030-f5d9-4ea3-a9d2-696a99c005dc&contributor=&keyword=&subject=Psychiatric/Mental%20Health%20Nursing

I am working with an instructor on an inclusive design course. The focus is on accessibility and universal design for built environments and interior design. Do you know of any collections of resources I could point them toward for this? 
I've found many TED Talks, government-released documents on ADA requirements, and open access articles on Universal Design for architecture, but I haven't found any resources intended to be used as teaching materials. 
The instructor is especially interested in lecture materials about disabilities (statistics, diagnoses, design interventions etc). 

My two gurus for this request are Jutta Treviranus and Jess Mitchell of the Inclusive Design Research Center.

 Any recommendations for OER for an Introduction to Disabilities course?
I am finding this difficult to search for online because of the wealth of content about using OER for students with disabilities!
(I already saw the post about the stock photo collection and will be sharing that.)

Colleagues at CUNY School of Professional Studies wrote Introducing Developmental Disability through a Disability Studies Perspective.

Hoping I can ask if anyone has some OERs/open textbooks, or ideas for who I could contact about OER on the following topics (I have done some preliminary digging in the BCcampus collection, and a few other collections, but have not found a lot as yet).  I would like Canadian context if possible, but am happy to look at materials that could be adapted.
Inclusive education
Disability studies
Recruitment and selection, and specifically related to this "talent acquisition" and legal considerations

The CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS) created the OER Introducing Developmental Disability Through a Disability Studies Perspective.
In addition, the Journal of Teaching Disability Studies has a CC license.


This might be helpful for part of your OER.

Distilling Spirits

I have an instructor who is looking for anything OER related to Distilling Spirits.
I have searched Open Educational Resources, Merlot, OER Commons, OpenStax, and Open Textbook Library.
Search terms used include the following: distilled, distillation, food chemistry, and fermentation. If you have any additional suggestions, I would be grateful.   Thank you!

This is a book we had made a few years ago that focused on Fermentation in food chemistry that may be useful:
https://commons.libretexts.org/book/chem-306236
If you want to review the scope of food related OER in our corpus, take a look at this link: https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=food
I hope some of this is useful to you.

Engineering

At Haiti Open University, we are facing a challenge to setup labs for our engineering students. we are looking for affordable/free solutions in remote, simulated and hands-on labs in civil, electrical and computer engineering. Do you know Colleges/Universities that will allow our students to use their remote labs? 

There are several options for free remote computer labs. Consider:

There are many free cloud-based Integrated Development Environments. Start with repl.it.
Amazon AWS Educate offers free compute time on AWS. Free trials on AWS are also available.
Microsoft Imagine offers free compute time on Azure. Free trials on Azure are also available.
Google offers free trials on Google Compute.

German

We have an adjunct faculty member who is looking for materials for his Introduction to German course (beginner II level at a community college). He’s looking for both textbook and ancillary materials, especially relating to grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structure. I searched OER Commons, MERLOT, Open Textbook Library, OASIS, and BCCampus Open Ed and have located many (useful) interactive materials, but not much on the textbook side of things.
If anyone has either material type (textbook or ancillary) to share, we would greatly appreciate it!

I'd recommend the University of Texas at Austin's Center for OER and Language Learning https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/german . We just reached out to them to find resources for our Spanish classes and they have been very helpful.

Horses

Any chance that someone has a lead on OER that is related to training, husbandry, and riding of horses?   I’m not even sure where I would begin looking for this type of content so any help is appreciated!

Here are some helpful resources for veterinary medicine topics which may include horse-related topics. Not all are OER, but all are free online  
https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/vetmed   

Two courses at LBCC use library ebooks for their horse courses: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=horse 

Information Literacy

Would any of you happen to have a textbook for an Information Literacy class that you could recommend?

Some of our instructional librarians use this one for an LSC150 – 1 cr info lit course - https://textbooks.opensuny.org/the-information-literacy-users-guide-an-open-online-textbook/

Here is our Information Literacy LibGuide:
http://research.lakelandcc.edu/c.php?g=664721&p=4672853

There is also this one from Mike Caulfield - https://webliteracy.pressbooks.com/

Language Design

A faculty member asked me about training specifically on language course design. An OER perspective is preferred, but this seems a bit niche so I'd appreciate any leads. 

Check out COERLL, the Center for OER for Language Learning, at the University of Texas at Austin. They host conferences and webinars on language instruction, as well as have a bank of great OER and resources.
https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/

Leadership

I am looking for material on organizational leadership. We are currently using a Cengage textbook but are exploring OER options for a leadership experience course. (Introduction to leadership, Research perspectives on leadership, and the Personal side of leadership  models of personality, traits, leader behavior, problem-solving styles, etc.). I have looked around a bit so far, but have not located anything that seems to work. I appreciate any information/direction anyone has to share.

LibreTexts has several text entries on organization and leadership:
https://commons.libretexts.org/catalog?search=lead&library=&subject=&location=&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
https://commons.libretexts.org/catalog?search=organizational&library=&subject=&location=central&author=&license=&affiliation=&course=&publisher=
but when looking at the page level on the socialsci and business libraries, we have >1600 pages with "leadership" keywords (more with organization I bet):
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=leadership&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
https://biz.libretexts.org/Special:Search?qid=&fpid=230&fpth=&query=leadership&type=wiki&path=Bookshelves
There is a good chance that a simple use of our OER Remixer can build a book that may work for you (with limited editing afterwards).

Medical Office Assistant

Are there institutions that have found OER resources that are no less than two years old for use in a medical office assistant program?  Also, if you know of OER resources, do they include exercises and practice work? If so, can you list them?  Here are the range of interests our professor has for the topic:
Medical Assisting: Administrative and Clinical Competencies
Mosby’s Front Office Skills for the Medical Assistant
Medical Ethics
Clinical Care Classification
Medical Billing and Coding

I am unaware of any comprehensive resources that are openly licensed on this topic. However, two sites you’ll want to check out are SkillsCommons.org and KnowledgeToWork.com. SkillsCommons is a repository of resources created by TAACCCT grant recipients:
https://www.skillscommons.org/discover?query=medical+office
and Knowledge to Work is a portal created by Lord Fairfax Community College that catalogs free and low-cost learning materials (including OER, but not exclusively) on a variety of subjects (you can narrow search results by license type). Knowledge to Work has many resources for health information management,
which has some topics that overlap, and we are currently working to add resources for medical office assistants as well:
https://www.knowledgetowork.com/  

Mentoring

Our counseling faculty is creating a course on the value/importance of mentoring. This would be for students learning to be mentored. Can anyone recommend OER for this topic?

You may find bits and pieces of what you are looking for in our Counseling and Guidance bookshelf of the LibreTexts SocialSci library:
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Counseling_and_Guidance

Hi Sarah, would this be of use to you?
Tutor Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Tutoring Skills by Penny Feltner and James R. Gapinski

Resume/Interview Class

Hi all, I’ve got an instructor who is looking for materials for her resume/interview class. Does anyone have anything?

Saylor Academy has some openly licensed courses on Resume Writing and Interviewing Skills.
PRDV102: Resume Writing
https://learn.saylor.org/course/PRDV102
PRDV103: Interviewing Skills
https://learn.saylor.org/course/PRDV103

Dave Dillon's Blueprint for Success in College and Career has chapters on Resumes and Interviewing (ch. 42 and 43).

We have a counselor who's using content from Counseling 110: Career and Life Planning by College of the Canyons. Unit 5 has content on resumes and interviewing.

World Languages

My faculty colleagues in World Languages are interested in utilizing OER, but they need  language learning materials -- really, lab materials, resources that students use to practice the language. We have found open textbook materials, but have not been successful in locating other/ancillary materials. Any suggestions?
 
COERLL has supplementary resources: https://www.coerll.utexas.edu/coerll/materials . The Open Language Resource Center at University of Kansas has language OER, although they may be mostly full curricula: http://olrc.ku.edu/ .

Also, the Boise State Pathways project for World Languages has tons of resources, many created – by students! – specifically for language labs. https://www.boisestate.edu/worldlang/pathways/

COERLL features on our website and gives digital badges to language educators who use, promote, or create OER, and we’d love to feature your language faculty. They can learn more on our Language OER Network page or contact me for more information.

On top of Sarah Sweeney's suggestions, I also would check out LibreTexts' offerings. There are numerous options, and they integrate well into Canvas.

https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Languages

MERLOT has an Editorial Board in World Languages and over 3000 resources. All are categorized by the language, i.e. Spanish, German, etc. Follow this link.
 
Material Search Results (merlot.org)

We currently have instructors working on 100 and 200 level materials for Spanish.  This OER work includes practice and assessments and is built in Canvas.  They are currently working and should be ready to share in spring.  I'm the OER faculty specialist at our college and I would like to facilitate them sharing their work!
Phil Root  

Workplace Experience:

I received a request from a professor in search of resources to help with the creation of a 1-credit course called "The Workplace Experience."  
Much of the content to be included in the course is specifically requested by our industry advisors.  
To include topics like:

Coming to work on time
Working when you are at work
Following through on tasks at work
Communicating with supervisors
Workplace dress
Personal business at work
Continuous learning at work
Problem solving
Professional attitudes and behavior.
Mobile phone use

Is anyone aware of any resources that address these topics?  Essentially, How to Be a Good Employee 101.

World Religions:

I have a Blackboard administrator who is looking for OER for a World Religions course.
Any resources or support materials you may have and are willing to share will be greatly appreciated.

Here is our current collection of Religious Studies books/modules on the LibreTexts Humanities library:
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Religious_Studies
I hope this may help you. Feel free to reach out to us if you want to learn more about how to use these materials to remix your own customized texts.
Cheers, Delmar

One of our faculty will be teaching a Religion course on the “Survey of the New Testament”
and needs assistance in finding appropriate OER materials.
I have given her the “usual suspect” list of where to find resources but this is not my field so I know very little

We don't have an explicit text focusing on the New Testament, but our Religious Studies section of the
LibreTexts Humanities library has content that does overlap with topic:
https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Religious_Studies
 
Try the Open Digital Theological Library, lots of results to sort thru:
https://opendigtheolib.on.worldcat.org/search?queryString=New+Testament 

We don't have any religious content here at Lumen, however here is some information that might be helpful.