A greater number of youth and adult facilities are pursuing college courses. There has been requests for college preparatory materials to meet the demand of student interest. Below is a list of Open Education Resources that community college instructors are presently using to reduce textbook costs and address college preparatory needs.
Open Education Resources are great for the budget, for instructor use and student access. Please take a peek and consider OER for your classroom education server, Endless Laptop or RACHEL servers.
A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students by Alise Lamoreaux. Designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives. https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/collegetransition**
College Success (Saylor): College Success has a student-friendly format arranged to help you develop the essential skills and provide the information you need to succeed in college. This is not a textbook full of theory and extensive detail that merely discusses student success; rather, this is a how-to manual for succeeding in college. The book provides realistic, practical guidance ranging from study skills to personal health, from test taking to managing time and money. Furthermore, College Success is accessible—information is presented concisely and as simply as possible. https://saylordotorg.github.io/text_college-success/index.html
How to Learn Like a Pro! by Phyllis Nissila: How to Learn Like a Pro! features the “big six” effective learning/study skills topics: learning styles and preferences, time and materials management, critical thinking and reading, note-taking, memory principles, and test-taking techniques. Each of the six units featuring a combined total of twenty-three lessons and accompanying exercises (with a dash of humor here and there) were developed with the diverse student body of the community college in mind as well as learners in other educational venues. https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/collegereading
About Writing: A Guide by Robin Jeffrey: This writer’s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student needs to successfully compose college-level work, including the basics of composition, grammar, and research. It is broken down into easy-to-tackle sections, while not overloading students with more information than they need. Great for any beginning writing students or as reference for advanced students! https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/aboutwriting/
Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. https://open.lib.umn.edu/writingforsuccess/
Writing in College is designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes. It provides a friendly, down-to-earth introduction to professors’ goals and expectations, demystifying the norms of the academy and how they shape college writing assignments. Each of the nine chapters can be read separately, and each includes suggested exercises to bring the main messages to life. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=247
The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking:Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking features two key themes. First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second is its emphasis on ethics in communication. It is this practical approach and integrated ethical coverage that setsStand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking apart from the other texts in this market. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=77