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OER: A Field Guide for Academic Librarians
No full textWe intend this book to act as a guide writ large for would-be champions of OER/ that anyone—called to action by the example set by our chapter authors—might serve as guides themselves. The following chapters tap into the deep experience of practitioners who represent a meaningful cross section of higher education institutions in North America. It is our hope that the examples and discussions presented by our authors will facilitate connections among practitioners/ foster the development of best practices for OER adoption and creation/ and more importantly/ lay a foundation for novel/ educational excellence.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1561/thumbnail.jp
Yet Another Introductory Number Theory Textbook (Cryptology Emphasis Version)
No full textThis version of YAINTT has a particular emphasis on connections to cryptology. The cryptologic material appears in Chapter 4 and §§5.5 and 5.6/ arising naturally (I hope) out of the ambient number theory. The main cryptologic applications – being the RSA cryptosystem/ Diffie-Hellman key exchange/ and the ElGamal cryptosystem – come out so naturally from considerations of Euler’s Theorem/ primitive roots/ and indices that it renders quite ironic G.H. Hardy’s assertion [Har05] of the purity and eternal inapplicability of number theory. Note/ however/ that once we broach the subject of these cryptologic algorithms/ we take the time to make careful definitions for many cryptological concepts and to develop some related ideas of cryptology which have much more tenuous connections to the topic of number theory. This material therefore has something of a different flavor from the rest of the text – as is true of all scholarly work in cryptology (indeed/ perhaps in all of computer science)/ which is clearly a discipline with a different culture from that of “pure”mathematics. Obviously/ these sections could be skipped by an uninterested reader/ or remixed away by an instructor for her own particular class approach.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1582/thumbnail.jp
Web Accessibility for Developers
No full textWeb Accessibility for Developers is a technical book aimed primarily at programmers. Learn how to develop accessible interactivity on the Web and gain expertise using WAI-ARIA/ a W3C specification that enables optimal use of assistive technologies/ like screen readers/ when navigating the Web.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1587/thumbnail.jp
Speaking of Culture
No full text“Speaking of Culture” is a collection of instructor-authored background readings intended to accompany other activities/ discussions/ experiences/ projects/ and readings for IELI 2470 – Cross-Cultural Perspectives/ a course offered by faculty in the Intensive English Language Institute at Utah State University. Its main purpose is to define culture and other concepts often associated with it.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1624/thumbnail.jp
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu
No full textThe purpose of this text is to provide a reference for University level assembly language and systems programming courses. Specifically/ this text addresses the x86-64 instruction set for the popular x86-64 class of processors using the Ubuntu 64-bit Operating System (OS). While the provided code and various examples should work under any Linux-based 64-bit OS/ they have only been tested under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (64-bit). The x86-64 is a Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) CPU design. This refers to the internal processor design philosophy. CISC processors typically include a wide variety of instructions (sometimes overlapping)/ varying instructions sizes/ and a wide range of addressing modes. The term was retroactively coined in contrast to Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC3).https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1628/thumbnail.jp
Answering questions with data: Introductory Statistics for Psychology Students
No full textThis is a free textbook teaching introductory statistics for undergraduates in Psychology. This textbook is part of a larger OER course package for teaching undergraduate statistics in Psychology/ including this textbook/ a lab manual/ and a course website. All of the materials are free and copiable/ with source code maintained in Github repositories.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1632/thumbnail.jp
Principles of Political Economy - Third Edition
No full textThis textbook is unique among economics textbooks. It contains many of the same topics as mainstream textbooks/ but it includes and takes very seriously heterodox critiques and alternatives to the mainstream approach to economics. It includes a whole range of alternative theories/ including Post-Keynesian/ Austrian/ Marxian/ radical/ feminist/ institutionalist/ and other approaches. The purpose is to teach students about alternative schools of economic thought but also to deepen their understanding of the dominant/ neoclassical approach to economics. In this sense/ it draws a great deal of inspiration from Richard Wolff and Stephen Resnick’s Contending Economic Theories. Following Wolff and Resnick/ an even broader objective is to teach students that economics is a discourse and that no single voice can rightfully claim to have a monopoly on the truth about economics.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1634/thumbnail.jp
Microwave and RF Design: Amplifiers and Oscillators
No full textMicrowave and RF Design: Amplifiers and Oscillators presents the design of amplifiers and oscillators in a way that enables state-of-the-art designs to be realized. Detailed strategies and case studies are presented. Design of competitive microwave amplifiers and oscillators is particularly challenging as many trade-offs are required in design/ and the design decisions cannot be reduced to a formulaic flow. The emphasis is on developing design skills. This book is suitable as both an undergraduate and graduate textbook/ as well as a career-long reference book.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1652/thumbnail.jp
Conservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa
No full textConservation Biology in Sub-Saharan Africa comprehensively explores the challenges and potential solutions to key conservation issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. Easy to read/ this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics/ including threats to biodiversity/ environmental laws/ and protected areas management/ as well as related topics such as sustainability/ poverty/ and human-wildlife conflict. This rich resource also includes a background discussion of what conservation biology is/ a wide range of theoretical approaches to the subject/ and concrete examples of conservation practice in specific African contexts. Strategies are outlined to protect biodiversity whilst promoting economic development in the region.https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1667/thumbnail.jp
Psychology: The Science of Human Potential
No full textThe first chapter provides an overview of the textbook and reviews the history of psychology and its methodology. Psychology is described as a science studying how hereditary (nature) and experiential (nurture) variables interact to influence the thoughts/ feelings/ and behavior of individuals. The remainder of the text will be organized in sections entitled “Mostly Nature” (Biological Psychology; Sensation & Perception; Motivation & Emotion)/ “Mostly Nurture” (Direct Learning; Indirect Learning (i.e./ observational learning and language); Cognition)/ and “Nature/Nurture” (Human Development; Personality; Social Psychology; Maladaptive Behavior; Professional Psychology and Human Potential).https://mds.marshall.edu/oa-textbooks/1679/thumbnail.jp