This book is intended to give students a basic understanding of the various types and uses of ingredients used in the baking industry, and how certain ingredients, in particular grains and flours are produced, graded and processed in Canada.Understanding Ingredients for the Canadian Baker is one of a series of Culinary Arts books developed to support the training of students and apprentices in …
This open textbook for Introduction to General Psychology is a remix of newly-created chapters by UWG faculty and existing materials from OpenStax Psychology. The text was created under a Round Eight Textbook Transformation Grant.
This book is a practical guide to adapting or creating open textbooks using the PressBooks platform. It is continually evolving as new information, practices and processes are developed. The primary audience for this book are faculty and post-secondary instructors in Saskatchewan, Canada who are developing, adapting or adopting open textbooks at the University of Saskatchewan. However, there ma…
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American e…
A three-part training guide for bringing higher education instructors up to speed with Open Educational Resources (OER). This book was developed to serve as a standalone guide for independent creators and to support OER training through face-to-face, online, and hybrid delivery modes.
In this book, we offer an introduction to OER publishing, examples of Open Pedagogy, OER-Enabled Pedagogy, and working with learners; and guidelines, best practices, and suggestions for how to plan, create, publish, and distribute your OER textbook and materials. This book is divided into four chapters: Teaching with OER, Open Pedagogy, and Working with Learners offers information about tea…
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In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. We hope that by skimming the surface of a very deep subject, biology, we may inspire you to drink more deeply and make more informed choices relating to your health, the environment, politics, and the greatest subject that are all of us are entwined in, life itself.
Welchen Beitrag die Konzepte Bildungswerte und Schulentfremdung zur soziologischen Bildungsforschung leisten können, wird in diesem Buch theoretisch und empirisch aufgezeigt. Mit quantitativen Daten aus Sekundarschulen in Luxemburg und im Schweizer Kanton Bern (Projekt SASAL) werden Bildungsungleichheiten nach sozialer Herkunft, Geschlecht und Migrationshintergrund analysiert. Spezifische Wert…
Transitionen; Bildungsentscheidungen; Aus- und Weiterbildung; Steuerung Bildungsverläufe; Bildungs- und Berufsbildungsprozesse; Bildungsverläufe