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Interactive Modules Build compelling interactive media elements that integrate anywhere your students learn. Browse Our Most Popular Textbooks Over 2500 openly licensed and curated books and counting. Search them all in the Commons. Big Ideas in Cosmology Physics Kim Coble, Kevin McLin,Lynn Cominsky The traditional textbook, bound to the physical limits of the printed page, cannot illustrate the full complexity, movement, and beauty of the cosmos. In 2012, NASA granted astronomer Lynn Cominsky a multi-year grant with a mandate to develop an interactive experience that could better capture the dynamic nature of the  universe. Dr. Cominsky was joined … Continue reading Big ...Infant and Toddler Care and Development Social Science Amanda Taintor When you think about infants and toddlers, what words and images come to mind? William James imagined infants as experiencing a blooming, buzzing confusion” (James, 1890). 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This OER is designed to provide students access to interactive activities in order to reinforce the acquired knowledge of basic Spanish vocabulary and grammatical points. The activities presented in each chapter are contextualized and interconnected through the Spanish language and culture. … Continue reading ¡Naveguemos ...Nursing Fundamentals Medicine ErnstmeyerChristman (Eds.) This book introduces the entry-level nursing student to the scope of nursing practice, various communication techniques, and caring for diverse patients. The nursing process is used as a framework for providing patient care based on the following nursing concepts: safety, oxygenation, comfort, spiritual well-being, grief and loss, sleep and rest, mobility, nutrition, fluid and electrolyte … Continue reading Nursing ...A World Perspective of Art Appreciation Humanities Deborah GustlinZoe Gustlin rt appreciation is centered on the ability to view art throughout history, focusing on the cultures and the people, and how art developed in the specific periods. You cannot understand art without understanding the culture, their use of materials and sense of beauty. Art is also conveyed by the simple act of creating art for … Continue reading A ...Introduction to Engineering for Engineers and Scientists Engineering Scott Johnson This course is a two semester Introduction to Engineering that is based on two courses that was taught at Prince George’s Community College: Computer Programming for EngineersScientists and Introductory Engineering. This course assumes a remix of the two for better flow.Fundamentals of Geology Geosciences Kimberly Schulte When you ask the question What is geology?” most people will initially respond that it is the study of rocks. This is true, but geology is also so much more than that. The truth is that geology is an intricate part of your everyday life.View All Books in Commons Latest NewsUpcoming Events News 07 Sep New In-Person Workshops for the ADAPT Homework Platform Jennifer Rogers 0 Comments News 02 Aug LibreOne Goes Live to Improve your Login Experience Jennifer Rogers 0 Comments News 27 Feb LibreTexts Announces New Grant to Expand ADAPT Homework System Jennifer Rogers 0 Comments 10 May Webinar: Create Your Textbook to Fit Your Mission Time: 8 am PST 30 May ADAPT Workshop CSU Fullerton Time: 9- 3 am PST 10 May Webinar: Spanish Open Educational Resources (OER) Homework Hackathon 2: Let’s have fun with ADAPT Time: 11 -12 PST Built by educators for educatorsstudents You're in good company with over 5000 educators across the World building their OER initiatives on LibreTexts LibreTexts has made my transition to using OER textbooks in all my math courses easy and enjoyable! I love the way I can customize existing OER content so easily into a coherent textbook that covers exactly the right topics and in the way I want them presented. If an explanation or an instruction is unclear, I can improve the wording quickly and easily. If additional examples are needed for a topic, I can easily add them. My students appreciate not having to pay for a textbook, and their performance has not been hindered. In fact, on topics for which I have added my own new explanations and examples, they have performed even better than before! Paul Seeburger Professor, Faculty of Mathematics, Monroe Community College I have moved to LibreTexts for all of my classes. It has allowed me to take full advantage of OER so that I was able to customize the textbook by remixing it and also directly embed my videos throughout and embed fully interactive activities allowing students to have mathematics learning materials that address all of their learning styles. My students have repeatedly thanked me for providing them with free materials that provide them the opportunity to succeed in their math classes. Dr Larry Green Professor, Lake Tahoe Community College LibreTexts is the epitome of what OER represents. It contains a vast repository of OER material that keeps growing with one of the most powerful tools to create and remix OERs. It is exciting to see...