This text discusses public policy as a skill that can be learned and implemented in local, state, and federal government. The book goes through the necessary steps to work within public policy and the necessary steps to engage and implement effective policy.
Material Type: Textbook
Introduction to Criminal Investigation, Processes, Practices, and Thinking is a teaching text designed to assist the student in developing their own structured mental map of processes, practices, and thinking to conduct criminal investigations. Delineating criminal investigation into operational descriptors of tactical-response and strategic response while using illustrations of task-skills and thinking-skills, the reader is guided into structured thinking practices. Using the graphic tools of a “Response Transition Matrix”, an “Investigative Funnel”, and the “STAIR Tool”, the reader is shown how to form their own mental map of investigative thinking that can later be articulated in support of forming their reasonable grounds to believe.
Material Type: Textbook
The basis for the development of this guidebook came about after a publisher had discontinued a text I had been using for a number of years in my patrol operations course. The text Police Officer’s Response Guide to Crimes/Incidents in Progress: by Nate Tanguay was designed for field patrol officers to have a reference book they could use in the field to assist then while on calls. Over the years I have had my students use this text and put in updated response concepts for call for service, as well as, specific state laws, paperwork requirements and other required duties for specific calls. With the discontinuation of the text, I made the determination to create my own guidebook with the updated response concepts that are being taught in law enforcement and reclassifying each call for service under the new National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) that the FBI will be implementing by 2021. With this project I was able to participate in Minnesota State Open Educational Resource (OER) Faculty Development to assist me in the development of this guidebook.
Material Type: Textbook
This is a laboratory manual with 14 experiments that is perfectly suited for a freshman (2nd semester) or sophomore course in Digital Electronics.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The CT OER adoption grant is used to spend the time to revise existing instructions and update lab supplies based on the newly adopted open-source lab manuals. Circuit Analysis courses require laboratory work requiring lab manuals with instructions. There are two excellent lab manuals that are published under Creative Commons Licenses. The laboratory manuals are in PDF format. In my Fall 2021 courses, the manuals are embedded in Blackboard learning management system. Students can download or print if desired. For easy accessibility and sustainability of the OER materials, the lab manuals are listed at CCSU Bookstore Adoptions and Insight Portals (AIP).
Material Type: Case Study
The Lumen Waymaker Writing Skills Lab contains eleven complete and customizable model units that integrate with the college LMS. Each unit includes text, videos, simulations, and other interactive activities to engage students with learning. Each unit in the platform also contains student self- checks and graded quizzes. Lumen makes their product easy and accessible for both students and instructors. When getting started with each unit, students will receive a personalized study plan. Students are able to test prior knowledge and then engage with in the program with the concepts that each student needs to work on the most. The students have access with enriched OER course materials within the platform. This product also provides students with immediate feedback and opportunities to continue to practice. The product also contains Offline Content Access where students can read each of the chapters offline, like a textbook. For instructors, this product contains many faculty resources such as PowerPoints and Question Banks. One helpful faculty resource in the platform is the ability to create emails that the students will receive when they are struggling to complete a unit. The emails appear to come from the instructor right when the student needs it most. Link to Waymaker: https://lumenlearning.com/courses/writing-skills-lab/ Link to Offline Resources: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-writingskillslab-2/
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The author explores topics and practices for English Language Learners and how to provide a more inclusive environment for intermediate and advanced students.
Material Type: Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Textbook
This resource is to be used with the Writing for Success OER textbook. All activites are listed with the corresponding chapter for ease of use.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
This course develops students’ writing at the college level, using materials organized around essential parts of the academic writing process. Key topics include rhetorical situations; the editing process; types and modes of academic writing; the research process; citation practices; informative and persuasive writing.
Material Type: Full Course
The following document has been created by the First Year Studies Department at Housatonic Community College. Many of the YouTube videos that are included have Standard YouTube licenses, which allows the sharing of links by educators; each has been attributed to their creator. The ancillary materials are organized by chapter and include discussion questions, journaling prompts, classroom activities, assessments, projects, and rubrics. This collection is CC-by 4.0; faculty may revise, remix, reuse, retain, and redistribute as needed, if the work is attributed appropriately. Some assignments or activities correspond directly to page numbers in the College Success text and others refer to the chapter in its entirety. Faculty will want to adjust some assignments to reflect software purchased by their respective colleges that perform the same functions as software used by Housatonic Community College. Housatonic Community College is not receiving money to promote the software that are within the document. The names of the software are in the document to provide other faculty context for the activity, assignments, or projects.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Teaching/Learning Strategy
In this presentations students will learn about why they may want to go to college and what they should expect to experience once there. This includes differences between high school and college, expectations, unwritten rules and where to look for help.
Material Type: Interactive, Lecture Notes
This resource contains links to two sets of slides and a blank pdf weekly schedule.The first set of slides focusses on getting students to reflect on how they use their time and what might be expected of them at the college level.The second set of slides gets into specific strategies for how to manage time. It is helpful to have students track their time while working through these presentations or in between the first and the second so that they can better relate to what they are reading to their own experience.
Material Type: Lecture, Lecture Notes, Lesson, Module
This is a video and accomanying worksheet that students can use to learn about antiseptics and disinfectants at home, how they are classified, and then research a product on their own.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
History of the development of antitoxin for the first cure for a bacterial disease, diphtheria.
Material Type: Lesson
Worksheet on drug resistance in bacteria, to accompany Nina Parker's Microbiology textbook, available on Open Stax.
Material Type: Homework/Assignment
OER
Material Type: Reading
OER Tutorials
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Interactive
