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Biographical Dictionary of the History of Paleoanthropology

CC BY-NC-ND (Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives)   English

Author(s): Matthew Goodrum

Subject(s): Biography: science, technology and medicine, Anthropology, Prehistory

Institution(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Publisher: The University Library at Virginia Tech with Virginia Tech Publishing

Last updated: 02/02/2025

The Biographical Dictionary of the History of Paleoanthropology is an ongoing digital humanities project by Dr. Matthew Goodrum, a historian of science who teaches in the Department of Science, Technology, and Society at Virginia Tech. The work contains biographies of individual paleoanthropologists, especially those for whom little information exists in English. They are organized in alphabetical order. Each biography is subject to revision as new information comes to light, and new biographies will be added over time.
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Teaching in the University

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): Donna Westfall-Rudd, Courtney Vengrin, Jeremy Elliott-Engel

Editor(s): Donna Westfall-Rudd, Courtney Vengrin, Jeremy Elliott-Engel

Subject(s): Education

Publisher: Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in association with Virginia Tech Publishing

Last updated: 29/01/2025

Teaching in the University: Learning from Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty provides insight and strategies for successful teaching, advising, and mentoring postsecondary students. In particular, the authors offer support and encouragement for implementing student-centered teaching practices relevant to college classrooms. This book is designed for new university teaching faculty and graduate teaching assistants looking for innovative teaching resources. As an Open Educational Resource (OER), this textbook provides university instructors free access to high-quality teaching materials based on the experiences of fellow new instructors. Seventeen contributors and two co-editors from the current students and alumni of university teaching scholars programs offer this resource for fellow faculty and graduate students to improve instruction and engagement. Each chapter comes from the experiences and expertise of these talented individuals who speak directly to their peers.

Graduate students and instructors adopting this book or its methods are encouraged to record their use by completing the form located at http://bit.ly/teaching-interest.

Links to additional formats (PDF, ePub, and order print-on-demand) are available at https://doi.org/10.21061/universityteaching

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Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Anita R. Walz, Julee P. Farley

Subject(s): Education

Institution(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Publisher: Open Education Initiative at the University Libraries at Virginia Tech

Last updated: 25/01/2025

This toolkit is designed to address known gaps in knowledge and practice which limit the development of generative relationship-building processes between higher education faculty and PreK12 educators.

Higher education and PreK12 are vastly different domains. Well-intended, collaborative relationships do not always result in hoped-for creation of useful and reusable learning materials for PreK12 classrooms, nor of effective partnerships.

The toolkit is part of the Scholarly Communication Notebook and is intended to prepare and position practicing and future academic librarians and interested higher education faculty, staff, and students consulting with librarians to address gaps related to outreach to PreK12. It aims to expand use and re-usability of learning resources through informed practices regarding copyright, open-licensing, and accessibility. Designed for use in formal graduate-level library and information science courses and relevant for self-study by academic librarians already in practice, this toolkit includes videos, presentations, transcripts, activities, guides, assignments, and assessment tools for learning and delivery by librarians to faculty and students in higher education, and for use by interested instructional designers, other faculty, staff, and graduate students seeking to improve their service to PreK12 educators.

Are you a professor or academic librarian reviewing or using this toolkit? We would love to hear from you. CLICK HERE to leave your feedback.

Additional files for this resource are available at https://doi.org/10.21061/OER_PreK12_highered.

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Pulmonary Physiology for Pre-Clinical Students

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Andrew Binks

Subject(s): Respiratory medicine

Institution(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Publisher: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in association with Virginia Tech Publishing

Last updated: 23/01/2025

Pulmonary Physiology for Pre-Clinical Students is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of pulmonary physiology. This text is designed for a course pre-clinical undergraduate medical curriculum and it is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) content guidelines. The text is meant to provide the essential information from these content areas in a concise format that would allow learner preparation to engage in an active classroom. Clinical correlates and additional application of content is intended to be provided in the classroom experience. The text assumes that the students will have an understanding of basic cardiovascular physiology that will be helpful to understand the content presented here. This resource should be assistive to the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation given the material is presented in a succinct manner, with a focus on high-yield concepts.

Additional versions of this book are freely available at: https://doi.org/10.21061/pulmonaryphysiology and https://med.libretexts.org/@go/page/34378.

Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting parts or the whole of the text are requested to register their interest at: https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical. Instructors and subject matter experts interested in sharing original supplemental materials are invited to join https://www.oercommons.org/groups/pre-clinical-resources/10133.

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Virginia Cooperative Extension Gardener Handbook

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Virginia Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Program

Editor(s): Kathleen Reed, Devon Johnson

Subject(s): Gardening

Institution(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia State University

Publisher: Virginia Cooperative Extension

Last updated: 22/01/2025

Virginia Cooperative Extension Gardener Handbook is a guide for all gardeners in Virginia. It covers a variety of topics important for beginning and experienced gardeners, including soil health, native plants, and integrated pest management. This manual provides an understanding of the basics of gardening in Virginia and helps to build a strong foundation of gardening knowledge. Resources for additional reading can be found at the end of each chapter. We encourage readers to take a deeper dive into the topics that interest them and continue their learning journey.

Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) is the outreach and engagement branch of Virginia Tech and Virginia State University, Virginia’s land-grant universities. Through VCE, Extension agents, specialists, and volunteers work to share knowledge and advance the wellbeing of all Virginians. This handbook serves as the main training text for new Extension Master Gardener volunteers.

The main landing page for the book is https://doi.org/10.21061/vcegardener.

Let us know how you are using this book https://bit.ly/interest-vcegardener.

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Significant Statistics - beta (extended) version

CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike)  201 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Adapted by John Morgan Russell, from Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, David Diez, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher D. Barr, Julie Vu and David Harrington

Editor(s): Anita Walz

Subject(s): Probability and statistics

Institution(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Publisher: Department of Statistics in affiliation with the University Libraries at Virginia Tech

Last updated: 21/01/2025

Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics is intended for students enrolled in a one-semester introduction to statistics course who are not mathematics or engineering majors. It focuses on the interpretation of statistical results, especially in real world settings, and assumes that students have an understanding of intermediate algebra. In addition to end of section practice and homework sets, examples of each topic are explained step-by-step throughout the text and followed by a ‘Your Turn’ problem that is designed as extra practice for students.

Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics was adapted from content published by OpenStax including Introductory Statistics, OpenIntro Statistics, and Introductory Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences. John Morgan Russell reorganized the existing content and added new content where necessary.

Note to instructors: This book is a beta (extended) version. To view the final publication (available in PDF, EPUB, print, and Pressbooks), please visit https://doi.org/10.21061/significantstatistics.

Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook: please help us understand your use by filling out this form: https://bit.ly/stat-interest.

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Cardiovascular Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Andrew Binks

Subject(s): Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences

Publisher: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in association with Virginia Tech Publishing

Last updated: 20/01/2025

CARDIOVASCULAR PATHOPHYSIOLOGY FOR PRE-CLINICAL STUDENTS, is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of common cardiovascular diseases, disorders and pathologies. This text is designed for a course pre-clinical undergraduate medical curriculum and it is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) content guidelines. The text is meant to provide the essential information from these content areas in a concise format that would allow learner preparation to engage in an active classroom. Clinical correlates and additional application of content is intended to be provided in the classroom experience. The text assumes that the students will have an understanding of basic cardiovascular physiology that will be helpful to understand the content presented here. This resource should be assistive to the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation given the material is presented in a succinct manner, with a focus on high-yield concepts.

Additional versions of this book are freely available at: https://doi.org/10.21061/cardiovascularpathophysiology and https://med.libretexts.org/@go/page/34347.

Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting parts or the whole of the text are requested to register their interest at: https://bit.ly/interest-preclinical. Instructors and subject matter experts interested in sharing original supplemental materials are invited to join https://www.oercommons.org/groups/pre-clinical-resources/10133.

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Epidemiology

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Charlotte Baker

Subject(s): Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Medical and health informatics

Institution(s): Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Publisher: Charlotte Baker in association with the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech

Last updated: 08/01/2025

Epidemiology is an openly-licensed text designed for medical degree-seeking clinical students without a prior background in public health. Using sports medicine and injury prevention examples and applications, it aims to provide students with the basics of epidemiology terms and concepts and is intended to guide medical school students as they prepare for the USMLE Step 1 Exam and to transition from student to clinician. It includes an introduction to general concepts and terminology of epidemiology, study designs and their relationship to clinical questions, and the use of epidemiology in clinical diagnosis and screening of disease. Concluding sections of the book present sources of errors in epidemiologic studies including bias, confounding, and effect modification. The book is notable for its use of accessible, inclusive figures and examples, and end-of-chapter graphic notes which summarize the chapter visually.

PDF, ePub, and print versions of this text are available at https://doi.org/10.21061/epidemiology.

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Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance, 3rd edition

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): James F. Marchman III

Editor(s): Anita Walz

Subject(s): Aerospace and aviation technology, Aircraft and aviation, Aerodynamics, Engineering: general

Publisher: James F. Marchman III in association with the University Libraries at Virginia Tech

Last updated: 16/12/2024

Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance, 3rd edition is a college undergraduate-level introduction to aircraft aerodynamics and performance. The objective of this text is to provide a “stand alone” coverage of basic, subsonic, aircraft performance preceded by an introduction to the basics of aerodynamics that will provide a background sufficient to the understanding of the subjects to be studied in aircraft performance. This text is designed for a course in Aircraft Performance that is taught before the students have had any course in fluid mechanics, fluid dynamics, or aerodynamics. The text is meant to provide the essential information from these types of courses that is needed for teaching basic subsonic aircraft performance, and it is assumed that the students will learn the full story of aerodynamics in other, later courses. The text assumes that the students will have had a university level Physics sequence in which they will have been introduced to the most fundamental concepts of statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics, and basic conservation laws that are needed to understand the coverage that follows. It is also assumed that students will have completed first year university level calculus sequence plus a course in multi-variable calculus. Separate courses in engineering statics and dynamics are helpful but not necessary. Any student who takes a course using this text after completing courses in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics should find the chapters of this book covering those subjects an interesting review of the material

This is a nearly verbatim presentation of Dr. Marchman’s 3rd edition (2004) of the text with minor corrections to text and formulas, addition of machine-readable math, alt text, and redrawn figures. It is available in Pressbooks, PDF, and ePub.

Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting parts or the whole of the text are requested to register their interest at: https://bit.ly/aerodynamics_interest

Downloadable versions of this book and further information are freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96525

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Pulmonary Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)   English

Author(s): Andrew Binks

Subject(s): Respiratory medicine

Publisher: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in association with Virginia Tech Publishing

Last updated: 13/12/2024

Pulmonary Pathophysiology for Pre-Clinical Students is an undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge of pulmonary pathophysiology. This text is designed for a pre-clinical undergraduate medical curriculum and is aligned to USMLE(r) (United States Medical Licensing Examination) content guidelines. The text is meant to provide the essential information in a concise format that would allow learner preparation to engage in an active classroom. Clinical correlates and additional application of content is intended to be provided in the classroom experience. The text assumes that the students will have an understanding of basic pulmonary physiology that will be helpful to understand the content presented here. This resource should be assistive to the learner later in medical school and for exam preparation given the material is presented in a succinct manner, with a focus on high-yield concepts.The 82-page text was created specifically for use by pre-clinical students at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and was based on faculty experience and peer review to guide development and hone important topics.