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Music and the Child
No full textChildren are inherently musical. They respond to music and learn through music. Music expresses children\u27s identity and heritage/ teaches them to belong to a culture/ and develops their cognitive well-being and inner self worth. As professional instructors/ childcare workers/ or students looking forward to a career working with children/ we should continuously search for ways to tap into children\u27s natural reservoir of enthusiasm for singing/ moving and experimenting with instruments. But how/ you might ask? What music is appropriate for the children I\u27m working with? How can music help inspire a well-rounded child? How do I reach and teach children musically? Most importantly perhaps/ how can I incorporate music into a curriculum that marginalizes the arts? This book explores a holistic/ artistic/ and integrated approach to understanding the developmental connections between music and children. This book guides professionals to work through music/ harnessing the processes that underlie music learning/ and outlining developmentally appropriate methods to understand the role of music in children\u27s lives through play/ games/ creativity/ and movement. Additionally/ the book explores ways of applying music-making to benefit the whole child/ i.e./ socially/ emotionally/ physically/ cognitively/ and linguistically.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1230/thumbnail.jp
Design Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing
No full textDesign Discourse: Composing and Revising Programs in Professional and Technical Writing/ edited byDavid Franke/ Alex Reid/ andAnthony Di Renzo/addresses the complexities of developing professional and technical writing programs. The essays in the collection offer reflections on efforts to bridge two cultures — what the editors characterize as the art and science of writing — often by addressing explicitly the tensions between them. Design Discourse offers insights into the high-stakes decisions made by program designers as they seek to function at the intersection of the practical and the abstract/ the human and the technical.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1246/thumbnail.jp
Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction
No full textFoundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction/ edited by Beth L. Hewett and Kevin Eric DePew/ with associate editors Elif Guler and Robbin Zeff Warner/ addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses. Written by experts in the field (members of the Conference on College Composition and Communication Committee for Effective Practices in OWI and other experts and stakeholders)/ the contributors to this collection explain the foundations of the recently published (2013) A Position Statement of Principles and Examples Effective Practices for OWI and provide illustrative practical applications. To that end/ in every chapter/ the authors address issues of inclusive and accessible writing instruction (based upon physical and mental disability/ linguistic ability/ and socioeconomic challenges) in technology enhanced settings. The five parts of this book attempt to cover the most important issues relevant to principle-centered OWI: (1) An OWI Primer/ (2) OWI Pedagogy and Administrative Decisions/ (3) Practicing Inclusivity in OWI/ (4) Faculty and Student Preparation for OWI/ and (5) New Directions in OWI. Working from the belief that most writing courses eventually will be mediated online to various degrees/ the editors offer principles and practices that will allow this collection to inform future composition theory and praxis. To this end/ the editors hope that the guidance provided in this collection will encourage readers to join a conversation about designing OWI practices/ contributing to the scholarship about OWI/ and reshaping OWI theory.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1250/thumbnail.jp
American Government - 2e
No full textAmerican Government 2e is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester American Government course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning/ including Insider Perspective features and a Get Connected module that shows students how they can get engaged in the political process. The book provides an important opportunity for students to learn the core concepts of American Government and understand how those concepts apply to their lives and the world around them.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1264/thumbnail.jp
Chemistry: Atoms First - 2e
No full textChemistry: Atoms First 2e is a peer-reviewed/ openly licensed introductory textbook produced through a collaborative publishing partnership between OpenStax and the University of Connecticut and UConn Undergraduate Student Government Association. This text is an atoms-first adaptation of OpenStax Chemistry 2e. The intention of “atoms-first” involves a few basic principles: first/ it introduces atomic and molecular structure much earlier than the traditional approach/ and it threads these themes through subsequent chapters. This approach may be chosen as a way to delay the introduction of material such as stoichiometry that students traditionally find abstract and difficult/ thereby allowing students time to acclimate their study skills to chemistry. Additionally/ it gives students a basis for understanding the application of quantitative principles to the chemistry that underlies the entire course. It also aims to center the study of chemistry on the atomic foundation that many will expand upon in a later course covering organic chemistry/ easing that transition when the time arrives. The second edition has been revised to incorporate clearer/ more current/ and more dynamic explanations/ while maintaining the same organization as the first edition. Substantial improvements have been made in the figures/ illustrations/ and example exercises that support the text narrative.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1279/thumbnail.jp
Applied Combinatorics
No full textApplied Combinatorics is an open-source textbook for a course covering the fundamental enumeration techniques (permutations/ combinations/ subsets/ pigeon hole principle)/ recursion and mathematical induction/ more advanced enumeration techniques (inclusion-exclusion/ generating functions/ recurrence relations/ Polyá theory)/ discrete structures (graphs/ digraphs/ posets/ interval orders)/ and discrete optimization (minimum weight spanning trees/ shortest paths/ network flows). There are also chapters introducing discrete probability/ Ramsey theory/ combinatorial applications of network flows/ and a few other nuggets of discrete mathematics. Applied Combinatorics began its life as a set of course notes we developed when Mitch was a TA for a larger than usual section of Tom\u27s MATH 3012: Applied Combinatorics course at Georgia Tech in Spring Semester 2006. Since then/ the material has been greatly expanded and exercises have been added. The text has been in use for most MATH 3012 sections at Georgia Tech for several years now. Since the text has been available online for free/ it has also been adopted at a number of other institutions for a wide variety of courses. In August 2016/ we made the first release of Applied Combinatorics in HTML format/ thanks to a conversion of the book\u27s source from LaTeX to MathBook XML. An inexpensive print-on-demand version is also available for purchase. Find out all about ways to get the book. Since Fall 2016/ Applied Combinatorics has been on the list of approved open textbooks from the American Institute of Mathematics. Applied Combinatorics is open source and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC-BY-SA).https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1284/thumbnail.jp
An Introduction to Computer Networks - Second Edition
No full textAn Introduction to Computer Networksis a free and open general-purpose computer-networking textbook/ complete with diagrams and exercises.It covers the LAN/ internetworking and transport layers/ focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing/ real-time traffic/ network management/ security and the ns simulator. The book is suitable as the primary text for an undergraduate or introductory graduate course in computer networking/ as a supplemental text for a wide variety of network-related courses/ and as a reference work.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1296/thumbnail.jp
About Writing: A Guide
No full textThis writer\u27s reference condenses and covers everything a beginning writing student should need to successfully compose college-level work. The book covers the basics of composition and revising/ including how to build a strong thesis/ how to peer review a fellow student\u27s work/ and a handy checklist for revision/ before moving on to a broad overview of academic writing. Included for those students who need writing help at the most basic level are comprehensive sections on sentence style and grammar/ verbs/ nouns and other tenets of basic grammar. Finally/ the sections on research and citation should help any student find solid evidence for their school work and cite it correctly/ as well as encouraging an understanding of why citation is so important in the first place. This is a guide that is useful to writing students of all levels/ either as a direct teaching tool or a simple reference.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1302/thumbnail.jp
Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective
No full textAccounting Principles: A Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts/ however/ is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet/ analyze various business situations/ work effectively as a member of a team/ and communicate your ideas clearly. This text was developed to help you develop these skills.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1318/thumbnail.jp
Discrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction - 3rd Edition
No full textDiscrete Mathematics: An Open Introduction is a free/ open source textbook appropriate for a first or second year undergraduate course for math majors/ especially those who will go on to teach. The textbook has been developed while teaching the Discrete Mathematics course at the University of Northern Colorado. Primitive versions were used as the primary textbook for that course since Spring 2013/ and have been used by other instructors as a free additional resource. Since then it has been used as the primary text for this course at UNC/ as well as at other institutions.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1327/thumbnail.jp