Yvonne E. Anthony - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
This Open Educational Resource (OER) carries a significant responsibility by presenting statistics through an equity lens. The metaphor of a lens is used intentionally–as the glasses one wears can have a profound effect on what one sees. The book encourages further inspection of the ways in which data is collected, interpreted, and analyzed on a variety of social justice issues, such as health disparities, hunger and food insecurity, homelessness, behavioral health (mental health and substance use), and incarceration of males of color. It also attempts to reveal how the misuse of data can reinforce inequities, for example, by stigmatizing people and labeling neighborhoods as high poverty, violent, and having poor educational opportunities. Whether an intended or unintended consequence, irresponsible data use can contribute to racist impressions of people and communities.
Klaire Somoray - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
This book is designed as a short and introductory resource specifically aimed to help students grasp key concepts typically found in undergraduate psychology statistics subjects. It was initially developed for online and intensive programs, which are becoming increasingly popular in psychology education. The book utilises jamovi, a free and open-source statistical software. This peer reviewed book is completely free to download, use, and adapt and it is released using the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence.
Stephen Thomson - Author / Kevin Hollis - Author / Laurie Turnbull - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
This is a multimedia-enabled case in which students will be guided, by an industry expert, to apply structured problem-solving that addresses a typical supply chain problem, missing parts. What first appears as the issue may be a symptom of a root cause(s). The case utilizes videos, data files for analytics, audio recording, and videogame-style exercises to find the missing box of parts. The case is a collaboration between the Conestoga Centre for Supply Chain Innovation and ATS Automation and utilizes the ATS Business Model (ABM) approach to identifying and solving root causes. The case can be used in any Continuous Improvement course or program for either Business or Engineering students.
Kimberly Ernstmeyer - Editor / Elizabeth Christman - Editor
2026 · Book · Open Access
This book introduces concepts related to nursing leadership and management, prioritization strategies, delegation and supervision, legal implications of nursing practice, ethical nursing practice, collaboration within the interprofessional team, health care economics, quality and evidencebased practice, advocacy, preparation for the RN role, and the avoidance of burnout with self-care. Several online, interactive learning activities are included in each chapter that encourage application of content to patientcare situations. Additionally, the Appendix includes a “suite of patients” with suggested prompts for classroom discussion to assist students in applying concepts from the book to real patient-care situations.
Donald E. Richards - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
This textbook is based on a different paradigm for organizing an engineering science core --- a systems, accounting and modeling approach --- that emphasizes the common, underlying concepts of engineering science. Although this approach is not new, as most graduate students have been struck by this idea sometime during their graduate education, its use as the organizing principle for an undergraduate curriculum is new. By focusing on the underlying concepts and stressing the similarities between subjects that are often perceived by students (and taught by faculty) as unconnected topics, this approach provides engineering students a foundational framework for recognizing and building connections as they travel through their education.
Jaeyoung Choi - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
Limited access to subscription-based statistical software poses obstacles when students want to apply the skills they acquired in college. Although students may learn programs like SPSS or Stata while at the university, they often find themselves unable to continue using these programs after graduation, making their acquired skills obsolete. As an open-source software program, R offers a solution to this challenge. It is freely accessible to anyone, including students, after they graduate. Therefore, I decided to write a freely available book for those interested in becoming crime analysts, focusing on learning statistics without delving too deeply into mathematics. Moreover, this book emphasizes practical applications by utilizing R for data analysis, ensuring students can develop relevant skills beyond the university. I hope that students can easily follow the instructions in this book and replicate the same outcomes using the provided data. This practical experience will demonstrate the value of statistics and R, ideally inspiring students to further their learning in these areas.
Matthew J. C. Crump - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
This 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.
Judith Rafferty - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
This peer reviewed eBook introduces readers to foundational concepts in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, personality psychology and social psychology to help explain why conflict occurs, how it develops and how it may be managed and/or resolved.
Allen Urich - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
Stress is a feeling you get when faced with a challenge. In small doses, stress can be good for you because it makes you more alert and gives you a burst of energy. For instance, if you start to cross the street and see a car about to run you over, that jolt you feel helps you to jump out of the way before you get hit. But feeling stressed for a long time can take a toll on your mental and physical health. Even though it may seem hard to find ways to de-stress with all the things you have to do, it’s important to find those ways. Your health depends on it.
Tammie Bolling - Author / Angela Mitchell - Author / Tanya Scott - Author / Nyrobi Wheeler - Author / Bridget Lepore - Author / Janine Walton - Author / Timothy Burgoyne - Author / Rick Arguello - Author / Valeree Falduto - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
Workplace Software and Skills is designed to flexibly support a range of courses covering computer literacy, Microsoft Office, and Google Suite applications. The textbook covers both hard and soft skills that are applicable to a broad range of academic majors and careers. Chapters combine studio learning and guided practice with scaffolded activities designed to reinforce a student’s ability to perform higher-order tasks independently. Workplace Software and Skills leverages complementary product features in spreadsheet, word processing, presentation, and similar applications. Modules are designed for maximum flexibility by including both Microsoft Office Suite and Google Suite applications, in order to best reflect the skills needed for today’s workforce. Authentic activities and real-world contexts develop a cumulative and thorough understanding, which reinforces the importance of cross-platform proficiency. Highly visible features also note Apple/Mac functions as needed.
Juan Fernandez Cantero - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
¡Bienvenida/o a Ventanas empresariales: Español para profesionales de los negocios! Este libro de texto ha sido específicamente creado para los estudiantes de SPA 302: Español para profesionales de los negocios de la Universidad de Kentucky. La idea del libro surgió debido a la necesidad de materiales actualizados y accesibles para este campo de estudio del español de las profesiones junto con la escasa disponibilidad de recursos educativos abiertos en el área de español de las profesiones. El presente material ha sido financiado por el programa de subvenciones para Recursos Educativos Abiertos del servicio de bibliotecas de la Universidad de Kentucky. Debido a su naturaleza en línea, este libro continuará en constante evolución, no se trata, por tanto de un material estático, terminado y archivado, sino que podría evolucionar a medida que se va refinando el material tras distintas iteraciones del curso para el que fue desarrollado. Respecto a su aplicabilidad, este libro puede utilizarse como recurso principal para una clase inicial de español de los negocios o aprovecharse alguno de sus módulos o partes por separado. Las cuatro grandes partes en las que se divide el libro ofrecen a los estudiantes un acercamiento inicial al panorama empresarial en Latinoamérica y España, la creación de empresas, el trabajo en la oficina y la seguridad laboral y los entornos empresariales. Este libro consta de las siguientes unidades: Economía, empresa y cultura en el mundo hispano. Aquí se presentan algunos aspectos económicos y culturales que afectan a las empresas hispanas. Creación y establecimiento de una empresa. En esta unidad se trata, de manera general, el proceso de creación de una empresa, los tipos de empresas que se pueden dar en el mundo hispano y nociones básicas sobre la organización empresarial. La oficina y prevención de riesgos laborales. Expandiendo lo aprendido en la unidad anterior sobre organización empresarial en esta unidad se exploran distintos tipos de organización del trabajo en oficinas, la comunicación en entornos profesionales y la importancia de la salud en el trabajo. Una mirada a entornos profesionales hispanos. En esta unidad se trata, por un lado, la importancia de los aspectos éticos y sociales de las empresas en el mundo hispano y por otro lado, los entornos empresariales en los que se mueven los hispanos en Kentucky y, concretamente, en Lexington. Las unidades están estructuradas de manera que se presenta primero información y vocabulario especifico a través de lecturas. Cada lectura incluye preguntas previas para activar los conocimientos que los estudiantes ya poseen sobre el tema y preguntas de expansion al post-lectura para reforzar, practicar y expandir lo aprendido. Además, en cada unidad se incluye la sección “Una ventana a…” en el que se abordan casos empresariales más extensos que los presentados en las actividades de refuerzo. Además, al final de cada unidad se ofrece un proyecto de recapitulación en el que los estudiantes amplían los temas tratados de una manera creativa y personalizada. Es importante señalar que el nivel de lengua objetivo es el avanzado bajo según la escala de ACTFL, que se aproxima a un nivel B2.1 del Marco Europeo de Referencia para las Lenguas.
Jayme L. Renfro - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
Public Administration: The Essentials provides students with the conceptual foundation they need for an introduction to the field of public administration. This OER textbook covers the most critical issues in the field through the use of classic texts and theory as well as through modern examples.
Steve McCartney - Author / Rick Parent - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
In this book, you will examine the moral and ethical issues that exist within law enforcement. This book will also familiarize you with the basic history, principles, and theories of ethics. These concepts will then be applied to the major components of the criminal justice system: policing, the courts, and corrections. Discussion will focus on personal values, individual responsibility, decision making, discretion, and the structure of accountability. Specific topics covered will include core values, codes of conduct, ethical dilemmas, organizational consequences, liability, and the importance of critical thinking. By the end of this book, you will be able to distinguish and critically debate contemporary ethical issues in law enforcement.
Safaa Dabagh - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
You're Smarter Than You Think: Statistics is a free, openly licensed introduction to statistics written for community college students and designed from the ground up for neurodivergent and anxious learners. Every section follows the same six-step rhythm (Read This First, Let's Talk About It, Now We Name It, Watch It Work, Your Turn, Check Your Voice), and every chapter opens with a Math Skills warm-up so a missing arithmetic step never derails a big idea. The book is organized around the student learning outcomes shared by community college statistics courses: describing data, estimating with confidence, and testing claims. It covers data and sampling, graphs, center and spread, probability, distributions, the Central Limit Theorem, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, two-sample tests, ANOVA, chi-square, and regression. Four free Technology Companions (R and RStudio, jamovi, StatCrunch, and the TI-84) carry every method into whatever software a course uses, each keyed chapter by chapter and packaged with ready-made datasets. Graphs, printable work space, answer keys, per-part formula sheets, and a cumulative final-exam prep are included throughout.
Simon Aman - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
The purpose of this material is to provide an overview of the free programming language, Python, and a few of its software libraries that are most useful for improving Introductory Statistics students' learning and for providing an alternative statistical software package for those who perform statistical data analysis and plotting. This material, along with the companion workbook and a free web-based Python platform, could easily replace the use of other software packages and calculators in an Introductory Statistics course. Part I, Sections 1 to 4, covers the basics of the Python programming language. Part II, Sections 5 to 13, focuses on Python for introductory statistics, and Part III, Section 14, covers selected advanced statistics topics in Python. Additionally, there are demo video links accompanying key steps for further instruction. No prior programming knowledge is required or assumed.
Danielle Navarro - Author / David Foxcroft - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
Based on Danielle Navarro’s widely acclaimed and prize-winning book Learning Statistics with R, this elegantly designed textbook offers undergraduate students a thorough and accessible introduction to jamovi, as well as how to get to grips with statistics and data manipulation. Lucid and easy to understand, Learning Statistics with jamovi covers the analysis of contingency tables, t-tests, correlation, regression, ANOVA and factor analysis, while also giving students a firm grounding in descriptive statistics and graphing. It includes learning aids for applying statistical principles using the jamovi interface, as well as embedded data files to accompany the book, and comprehensive chapters on probability theory, sampling and estimation, and null hypothesis testing. Freely available in open access, Learning Statistics with jamovi is an ideal introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students of psychology, as well as behavioural and health science students and anyone who needs to understand and use statistical analysis in their work.
Caitlin E Ward - Author / Collin Nolte - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
"An Intuitive, Interactive Introduction to Biostatistics" is an introductory statistics textbook oriented towards towards undergraduate students in the health sciences. While covering the breadth of material typically presented in a first semester statistics course, including introductions to probability and distributions, study design, CLT, hypothesis testing, and inference, IIIB distinguishes itself with its focus on cultivating student intuition through the use of guided questions and interactive simulation-based applets. Written in R, this open-source text has been created with customizability in mind, offering instructors maximal flexibility in arranging and modifying the content.
Multiple Authors - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
This OpenStax resource aligns to introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. An array of recurring features engages students in entrepreneurial thinking, managing change, using tools/technology, and responsible management; furthermore, the unique chapter on Social Media and Communication contextualizes the importance and implications of various platforms and communications methods.
Dyana P. Mason - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
Nonprofit organizations are on the front lines in communities, providing an important foundation for the social safety net in the United States and around the world. They also provide places where people can gather, share ideas and build community. They often accomplish amazing feats with few resources. This book was designed to be used in an undergraduate-level introductory course in the nonprofit sector. It provides an overview of the vocabulary used in defining the work of nonprofit organizations, topics of interest to nonprofit managers, and describes the primary roles nonprofits play in American (and to a lesser extent international) communities. The book also considers the growing numbers and influence of social enterprises and other “social innovation” organizations. Throughout, it brings in leading themes of accountability, ethics and obligations facing many nonprofit organizations as they go about their work – challenges that should be well understood by anyone interested in becoming a leader in the nonprofit sector.
David Tuffley - Author
2026 · Book · Open Access
A comprehensive guide to IT governance, policy, ethics and law for students, practitioners and researchers. Covers the latest developments and best practices in the field, with a focus on the ethical, legal and social implications of IT. The textbook is divided into nine chapters, each covering a key topic in IT governance, policy, ethics and law.
