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Crop Genetics
Copyright Year: 2023
Contributors: Suza and Lamkey
Publisher: Iowa State University
License: CC BY-NC
This book provides an introduction to genetic concepts such as reproductive systems, recombination, mutation, segregation and linkage analysis, inbreeding, quantitative inheritance, fertility regulation, population genetics and polyploidy.
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Early Childhood Literacy: Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers, Birth – Age 5
Contributors: Pegorraro Schull, La Croix, and Miller
Publisher: VIVA
License: CC BY-NC-SA
Engaging and Empowering Emergent Readers and Writers, Birth - Age 5
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Contextualised open educational practices: Towards student agency and self-directed learning
Copyright Year: 2022
Contributors: Olivier, du Toit-Brits, Bunt, and Dhakulkar
Publisher: AOSIS Publishing
License: CC BY
This book covers original research on the implementation of open educational practices through the use of open educational resources at the university level. The emphasis on open education in this book is on contextualising resources, supporting student agency and fostering self-directed learning specifically within a South African milieu. The envisaged chapters cover conceptual and review research and empirical work focussing on open educational practices and the use of renewable assessments. The work starts off with an overview of an institutional-wide open education project that prompted the research followed by research on open education in terms of various modules in the health science, music education, law, philosophy, dietetics, anthropology, French language learning, journalism and political science. There is a clear gap in the literature on open education in terms of open educational practices, specifically in terms of contextualising resources, supporting student agency and fostering self-directed learning in a South African context. Despite the existence of some general works on open education in terms of policy, social justice and open textbooks, this book will be unique in exploring the intersections of openness, specifically with contextualisation, student agency and self-directedness.
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Computer Systems Security: Planning for Success
Contributor: Tolboom
Publisher: Ryan Tolboom
License: CC BY-NC-SA
The text, labs, and review questions in this book are designed as an introduction to the applied topic of computer security. With these resources students will learn ways of preventing, identifying, understanding, and recovering from attacks against computer systems. This text also presents the evolution of computer security, the main threats, attacks and mechanisms, applied computer operation and security protocols, main data transmission and storage protection methods, cryptography, network systems availability, recovery, and business continuation procedures.
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Advanced Macroeconomics: An Easy Guide
Copyright Year: 2021
Contributors: Campante, Sturzenegger, and Velasco
Publisher: LSE Press
License: CC BY-NC
Macroeconomic policy is one of the most important policy domains, and the tools of macroeconomics are among the most valuable for policy makers. Yet there has been, up to now, a wide gulf between the level at which macroeconomics is taught at the undergraduate level and the level at which it is practiced. At the same time, doctoral-level textbooks are usually not targeted at a policy audience, making advanced macroeconomics less accessible to current and aspiring practitioners.
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It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Contributors: Kim, Marshall, and Pulliam
Publisher: LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
License: CC BY-NC-SA
In addition to original material this book is an adaptation of Introduction to Speech Communication authored by Sarah E. Hollingsworth, Kathryn Weinland, Sasha Hanrahan, and Mary Walker with a CC BY-NC-SA license. Introduction to Speech Communication includes original work as well as adapted and remixed material from Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition licensed CC BY-NC-SA, Stand Up, Speak Out licensed CC BY-NC-SA, and Fundamentals of Public Speaking licensed CC BY.
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Introduction to Biological Psychology
Contributors: Dommett, Berni, Clifton, and Hall
Publisher: University of Sussex Library
License: CC BY-NC
An open access textbook designed primarily for use by first and second year undergraduate students of British Psychological Society accredited Psychology degree courses in the UK.
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The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
Contributors: Hansen, Hung, and Ira
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
License: CC BY-NC
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline
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Fundamentos de sistemas operativos
Copyright Year: 2015
Contributors: Wolf, Ruiz, Bergero, and Meza
Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
License: CC BY-SA
Todos los usuarios de equipos de cómputo (esto es, prácticamente cualquier persona del mundo) tienen contacto con un sistema operativo, y ciertas expectativas acerca de su funcionamiento. ¿Cómo es que un sistema operativo puede gestionar y compartir los recursos de cómputo?
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PRODUCCIÓN DE NOTICIAS TELEVISIVAS EN ESPAÑOL EN ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMÉRICA
Contributor: Rodríguez
Publisher: Mavs Open Press
License: CC BY
Producción de Noticias Televisivas en Español en Estados Unidos de América es el primer Recurso Educativo Abierto (REA) dedicado exclusivamente al tema. Este REA expone la terminología empleada en las salas de redacción, facilita el entendimiento de la profesión y presenta ejemplos reales que conllevan al mejoramiento de la educación y la producción de noticias televisivas estadounidenses.
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