Overview: This Pressbook is a textbook for American Government courses. This course is taught using a mastery approach. It was designed to give you the best opportunity for success. Your instructor will guide you through the process, but below are some important things to keep in mind as you begin.
Overview: This textbook is an introduction to the legal environment of business.
Overview: COUNS 142 at College of the Canyons Focuses on brain-based learning strategies that develop self-regulatory learning: discovering self-motivation; gaining self-awareness; developing emotional intelligence; employing interdependence; accepting personal responsibility; applying active listening; reading and note-taking; monitoring performance; and developing a growth mindset that belie…
Overview: This book is a work in progress; and will hopefully remain that way in perpetuity; where authors will come back and update their chapters and others will add more chapter. It is aimed to serve as a textbook for classes exploring the nature of learning in the digital age. The genesis of this book is a desire to use OERs in all my teachings, coupled with the realization that the resourc…
Overview: Experiential education, or learning by doing, takes many forms and experiential learning activities can be embedded in a postsecondary course, comprise an entire course, or serve as the focus of a complete term of study. Experiential learning can be introduced early on in a program of study to provide students with early exposure to authentic experiences tied to their discipline or re…
Overview: This guide will help you prepare for online learning success by introducing you to the online learning environments at Niagara College in addition to your role as a learner within them.As you come to understand yourself as an online learner, you will also be introduced to effective learning strategies: time management for online learners, information management, professional communica…
Overview: A collection of readings on Learning Environments Design. Created by EDUC/HCI-603: Advanced Learning Environments Design graduate course at Iowa State University. Learning Environments Design Reading series is published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
Overview: As its title suggests, Learners and Learning is a module that addresses most directly the central, core business of schooling. The aim of the module is to improve the teaching abilities of teachers. It accordingly promotes a theoretically informed understanding of what learning is,how it takes place, and how teachers may go about organising systematic learning. The module enables teac…
Overview: Leadership and Influencing Change in Nursing is designed for a single-semester introduction to the professional nurse’s leadership role as both a care provider and a formal leader. An assortment of authors with diverse nursing leadership roles across Saskatchewan and Canada have contributed to this textbook. These diverse voices are focused on providing student nurses with the found…
Overview: This textbook covers a variety of topics related to African American History and culture, from African Origins to the Reconstruction era.