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Does anyone know about usable and well-written comprehensive Philosophy resources? A colleague of mine is looking for them, I’m assuming she needs general Philosophy (as opposed to subjects like the Philosophy of…).
Happy to pass along what I'm aware of in the philosophy world--look forward to hearing what others know of, too.

Modern Philosophy
ForAllX - Intro to Logic (a widely-used source, and yay SUNY authors)
Introduction to Philosophy (yay CUNY authors). He has other full text materials on his website, as well.
Introduction to Ethical Studies
An Introduction to Reason
Fundamental Methods of Logic (open access but not openly licensed)

The Rebus Community is currently developing a very comprehensive Introduction to Philosophy text, if your faculty member wants to be involved in writing new content, as well.

And, shameless plug, let's talk about how we at SUNY OER Services can support you and your faculty at Empire! Feel free to contact me directly.

I have one more to add. One of our philosophy professor here at Lansing CC, Dr. Matthew Van Cleave wrote an open textbook "Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking." It has been adopted by a number of faculty from all over and has good reviews so far. It is really an excellent resource and according to Matt, although there are excellent formal logic textbooks, on the one hand, and halfway decent critical thinking textbooks, on the other, there are really no good textbooks that do both well.

Hi Antonia, one more to add to the list:
Critical Thinking: Analysis and Evaluation of Argument
This was developed by a team at Portland Community College.

I worked with a professor over the summer to create this LibGuide as a text-replacement. A couple of the articles are in the library's databases, but most of this is on the Open Web. She had previously been using the text Archetypes of Wisdom (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/941070291), so it was comfortable for her to keep with the same format of following a specific Philosopher to explain the concept that they created or emblematized.
http://nwcc.libguides.com/PHL101OER

Ethics

I have an ethics professor who wants to teach ethics topics to a hospital ethics committee. He is asking for case studies too.

I’m not sure they include case studies, but there are a fair number of courses in the JHSPH Open Courseware that match or relate to these areas. Some other ideas
Public Health Ethics: Global Cases, Practice, and Context
Foundations of Health Information Technology (Undergraduate) Course Materials
Sunshine Electronic Health Record Academic Simulation

Professionalism and Leadership

Looking for OER materials for Professionalism and Leadership course for Gen Ed. Any help will be appreciated.

Lots of Leadership materials in MERLOT. Here is the hit list:
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/materials.htm?keywords=leadership&sort.property=relevance

Punjabi
A faculty member wants to develop an OER course for teaching the Punjabi language. If you happen to know of OER materials for Punjabi, please let me know.

I don’t have any more resources to recommend but you could point the faculty member to COERLL’s guide for creating OER for languages: http://bit.ly/coerll-course .

A BC instructor wrote the open textbook Speaking and Writing Punjabi, found in the BC Open Textbook Collection.

Swahili
I am looking for leads on an OER text for Anatomy and Physiology in Spanish and/or Swahili. So far I have found a few Spanish language resources via Merlot. Any additional ideas would be appreciated.

Two ideas for resources in Swahili:
1. Regarding Swahili which is spoken in Kenya (among other places), there is this UNESCO report on the state of OER in Kenya. It might contain some leads of where to look further. I know it's a bit round-about but sometimes that's what you've got to do. https://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214744.pdf
2. https://oerafrica.org

Typography for Graphic Design
I have a professor who is looking for an introduction to Typography for our Graphic Design emphasis students. The course has to do with a bit of history of letters and language, various type classifications, type anatomy and so on. If anyone knows of OER that could fit this topic, please share!

Salt Lake CC has an intro course and BC Campus has some good materials for this.
https://utah-primoprod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=digcoll_slc_27photo_10295&context=L&vid=MWDL
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=45f9a8a1-5901-4b32-87ae-b4f5c2aa99ef&contributor&keyword&subject
https://open.bccampus.ca/browse-our-collection/find-open-textbooks/?uuid=8751756a-772c-4232-bd7e-89f87f9d71b9&contributor&keyword&subject
The Digital Public Library of America has some really rich public domain collections around the history and structure. The following sites do as well.
https://museumofprinting.org/blog/

It's not an OER, but Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style and Johanna Drucker's The Alphabetic Labyrinth are two of the gold standards in the field. Bringhurst's book has been through 4 editions now, and it appears that there are several used copies of the 3rd edition available for well under $10 (cost + shipping), which is quite affordable for a print text (https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-list...condition=used). Used copies of Drucker's book also appear abundant and similarly priced: https://www.amazon.com/Alphabetic-Labyrinth-Letters-History-Imagination/dp/0500016089

If they're specifically looking for openly licensed work, Richard Rutter made an openly licensed web-centered riff on Bringhurst's text that's available here: http://webtypography.net/toc/ and on GitHub. This later became the seed of his own (all rights reserved) handbook on web typography.

Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality

Looking for materials about Virtual Reality VR or Augmeted Reality AR
in education in general.
Something very interesting for our university is focus on Vocational training.

As far as the second part of your request you might consider Skills Commons, a sister organization of MERLOT. It can be found here:
https://www.skillscommons.org/
Skills Commons contains resources for workforce development.

Hello, CVTC created 150 open source augmented reality simulation and serious games for health care students as part of the ARISE project, funded by a Dept of Labor TAACCCT IV grant. Teaching plans for the scenarios can be found on Skills Commons at http://support.skillscommons.org/showcases/open-courseware/healthcare/augment-reality/
We will also be developing 25 open source VR scenarios as part of the Open RN grant funded by the Dept of Education. To read more about this project go to www.cvtc.edu/OpenRN

Water Management Structures

I have an instructor looking to replace the current lab manual for her Water Management Structures course in the College of Engineering. The course has been using a book that was written by an instructor in the department who retired almost 30 years ago. The students currently pay $65 for it.
Below are the learning outcomes. If anyone has a text or some resources that might do the trick, please let me know.
As a result of taking this course, the student should:

Have a basic understanding of the principles applicable to the design of hydraulic structures;
Be able to apply the three basic equations governing fluid flow (continuity, energy and momentum equations) and other fluid flow principles to hydraulic structure design;
Understand the uses, applications and analysis procedures of various types of hydraulic structure, including dams and spillways, and irrigation, drainage and related structures;
Be able to prepare detailed design notes that are neat, complete, and properly referenced;
Be familiar with the materials that may be used in the design and construction of hydraulic structures;
Develop an understanding of various aspects of water resources engineering, particularly with respect to water control;
Be aware of the use and application of physical hydraulic models in the development of hydraulic structure design criteria; and
Have an understanding of dam safety and other aspects of safety associated with hydraulic structures as well of environmental regulations pertaining to work in waterbodies.

At College of the Canyons, our program in Water Systems Technology has produced Open Textbooks for all 11 of their courses. Some of the content might be helpful for the course you’re looking for.
You can find a list of our open textbooks at College of the Canyons ZTC; scroll down to the end until you find Water Technology. The books on the website are published as PDFs; let me know if you’d like the Word version.

World Health Problems

I’m working with an instructor to find open resources for a World Health Problems course.
The course covers the major causes of morbidity and mortality around the world. Topics include water availability, sanitation, malnutrition, mental health and addiction, AIDS, and other diseases. The health problems of developed countries are compared and contrasted with those of developing countries, along with the methodologies used by national and international agencies to solve them.

You might be able to get some data points from this public domain site:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html

The World Health Organization CC licenses its publications via its institutional repository, and you can search or browse by subject.
http://apps.who.int/iris/browse?type=mesh

World Religions

Thanks for previous recommendations related to Platforms and Biology. Today, I'm reaching out for any open textbooks focused on World Religions - or associated OER. While we are hoping for textbooks primarily focused on world religions I am aware that other disciplines (Anthro) may have relevant content and welcome those suggestions too. The instructor I am working with is building a capstone course that aims to address contemporary faith traditions from the aspect of contemplative practices and interfaith dialogue. Additionally, we are hoping to identify other resources (archival), that allow students to view primary source documents and their translations. I've already identified one such site - The Internet Sacred Text Archive, and would love any leads in that vein.

The Sinai Codex is the earliest (4th Cent CE) complete manuscript of the New Testament. It is online here: http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/codex/
While the site is not truly Open, the copyright page states that the electronic version is freely available for personal and educational use. The Greek text itself is public domain, of course - the authors have been dead well over 70 years.

I'm glad to see that there will be more OER available for this area soon. In Oregon faculty have made use of library ebooks in the meantime (not open or free, but more affordable for students). The following are known to be in use:
Peters, F. (1994). Reader on Classical Islam. Princeton University Press.
Abdel, H. M. A. (2005). The Qurʼan. New York: Oxford University Press.
Understanding the Religions of the World: An Introduction by Will Deming. Wiley-Blackwell, 2015.
World Religions Reference Library
Riggs, T., Thomson Gale, & Gale Group. (2006). Worldmark encyclopedia of religious practices (Gale virtual reference library). Detroit, Mich.: Thomson Gale. Jackson, R. (2014).
The God of Philosophy An Introduction to Philosophy of Religion. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.
Yandell, Keith E, & Yandell, Keith E. (2002). Philosophy of Religion A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy). Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.
We also have one PHL course using Philosophy of Religion by Philip A. Pecorino, Ph.D., which is licensed CC-BY-NC-ND.

A colleague of mine is looking for OER for her “World Religions” course. Please post any suggestions here. Thank you!

This is what I know of that's in use in Oregon: http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=religi
Most are using library resources as course materials.

Environmental Ethics

A Philosophy faculty member on my campus is looking to move to all openly-licensed materials in her Environmental Ethics course. Does anyone know of an existing OER textbook in this area, or one that's in the works? Of course, she and I can work together to curate a collection of resources. If so, any thoughts on some places to start?

We have an Environmental Science class called “Human Impact on the Environment”, and some of the themes run parallel to your course description. Although, it’s not a philosophy course, so the resources may not be perfectly aligned, our instructor is using selections from the following two open textbooks, which may be helpful for your needs:
1. Zehnder, Caralyn et. al. "Introduction to Environmental Science" (2016). Biological Sciences Open Textbooks. Book 4. http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/biology-textbooks/4
2. Theis, Tom and Tomkin Johnathan. "Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation" https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=96

Study Skills

Has anyone come across good OER for a college study / learning skills course? I’m doing some research for our Learning and Academic Resources department.

There is the College Success book from the Open Textbook Library - http://open.lib.umn.edu/collegesuccess/
PLUS … our university has done two adapted versions of the book:
University Success - http://openpress.usask.ca/universitysuccess2ndedition/
Strategies for Academic Success - http://openpress.usask.ca/strategiesforacademicsuccess/

Check out the student success category in the open textbook library: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx?subjectAreaId=10
I also recommend Dave Dillon's textbook, still in beta: https://press.rebus.community/blueprint2/

San Bernardino Valley College has compiled an excellent collection of College Success OER:
https://www.valleycollege.edu/open-education-resources/faculty/counseling.php

Here's an open textbook put together by counseling faculty at College of the Canyons: student success.

Our college success instructor found this open resource from UNC Chapel Hill and just loves it: http://learningcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/

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