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Keepin' Up with Popular Culture

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   English

Author(s): David Arditi

Subject(s): Popular culture

Institution(s): The University of Texas at Arlington

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 06/10/2025

In Keepin’ Up with Popular Culture, Dr. David Arditi introduces students to popular culture as a way to view and understand society, politics, and culture. This book demonstrates to students the overall importance of popular culture in their lives. It explores the ways that language is used (and the way that we use language) to construct the world around us through popular culture.
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Teamwork: An Open Access Practical Guide

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

Author(s): Andrew M. Clark, Lolin Martins-Crane, Mengqi Zhan, Justin Dellinger T.

Editor(s): Andrew M. Clark, Justin Dellinger T.

Subject(s): The Arts

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 19/08/2025

One of the things that faculty often hear from students is that they dislike working in teams. However, employers stress that teamwork is an essential skill for the workforce and want applicants that can apply the knowledge and skills gained through their experiences to their new career. The goal of this guide is to provide students with tools to help them understand what a team is, the different roles that comprise a team and how they fit into them, managing the teamwork process, and how to effectively market teamwork skills to their future employers. Students will have the opportunity to reflect on what they have learned and evaluate themselves and their team. Employer testimonials are included so students can hear from professionals in different disciplines about what teamwork looks like and how it applies to their occupation.

No Limits

CC BY (Attribution)  2 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): University of Texas at Arlington

Subject(s): The Arts

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 19/08/2025

Student Success and First Year Experience are learning community courses at UTA that teach new students academic success skills to aid their transition to college. The goal of the courses is to help students identify their individual needs, determine what resources are appropriate, recognize the faculty role in their development, and formulate a plan for an actively engaged and enriched experience from campus to career. The courses will be taught by Peer Academic Leaders (PALs) and faculty, staff and/or graduate students to provide guidance, raise awareness and understanding of students' majors and help support collaborative and co-curricular opportunities available within the School/College. This open educational resource is the required textbook for both courses.
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Where Does Art Come From?

CC BY (Attribution)   English

Author(s): Leah McCurdy

Subject(s): History of art

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 12/08/2025

Contributors to this open textbook offer relatable descriptions, details, and contexts of artworks from around the world, which have often been relegated to the peripheries of art and social history. Art traditions from Africa, Oceania, South and Southeast Asia, Islamicate regions, East Asia, and the indigenous Americas (before colonization) are prioritized to challenge the long-held view that “real art” only comes from the West. Introductory discussions of the history of art history and geographic conventions set the stage for considering the larger question, “where does art come from,” and other questions such as, “why haven’t I heard much about art from Africa, Oceania, etc.?” This book takes a pluralistic approach, forefronting diversity and interconnectedness. Scholars and students collaborated to produce this book. Student contributions will continue to improve the text and interactivity as it evolves. A scavenger hunt of student-made “easter eggs” builds a thread of engagement and humor throughout the book. Make sure to find them all! 

Sustainable Mobility

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  9 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Shams Tanvir

Subject(s): Transport planning and policy

Institution(s): California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 11/08/2025

This textbook and OER material cover tools and basic knowledge required to prepare transportation engineers and planners to contribute towards a carbon-neutral mobility future. In addition, we will explore the potential for vehicle electrification, automation, connectivity, and ridesharing to reduce the carbon impacts of auto mobility.  The textbook modules are intended to inform and teach students how to design streets for modes that have almost no carbon emissions. The goal of the textbook is to train engineering students on existing tools and policy levers that can be used to incorporate emerging transportation technologies in a sustainable, equitable, and efficient manner. The course is designed for graduate transportation engineering, and city and regional planning students. The undergraduate seniors will be able to absorb the materials given they have already taken fundamental courses on transportation engineering and planning, including traffic engineering and highway design.

This textbook is a product of the grant OERTransport: Enabling Transportation Planning Professional Advancement awarded to the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) in consortium with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the University of South Florida (USF). It was developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.

AI-Powered Education: Innovative Teaching Strategies to Elevate Student Learning

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

Author(s): Karen Magruder, LCSW-S, Ann M.L. Cavallo, PhD, Andrew M. Clark, PhD, Karen L. Bravo, PhD, MSN, RN, Jess Kahlow, PhD, Christy Spivey, PhD, Heather E. Philip, PhD, Kevin Carr, PhD, Michael Buckman, MBA, Jennifer Roye, EdD, MSN, RN, CHSE-A, CNE, Hugh J.D. Kellam, PhD, Luis E. Pérez Cortés, PhD, Rosie Kallie, PhD

Editor(s): Karen Magruder, LCSW-S, Ann M.L. Cavallo, PhD, Andrew M. Clark, PhD

Subject(s): Teaching skills and techniques, Higher education, tertiary education

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 21/05/2025

AI-Powered Education is a practical teaching resource crafted by educators, for educators, focusing on the integration of AI to enhance student learning. The book provides a collection of practical, step-by-step activities from a variety of disciplines in higher education. Each activity integrates AI tools and technologies into the classroom in innovative ways, with detailed guidance for instructors to seamlessly adopt these ideas.
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Español práctico: introducción al estudio de la lengua española

CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial)   Spanish

Author(s): Jinny K. Choi, A. Raymond Elliott, Sonia Kania

Editor(s): Sonia Kania

Subject(s): Lenguaje y lingüística

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 21/05/2025

Hoy en día el español es una lengua global que cuenta con unos 500 millones de hablantes nativos. Español práctico: introducción al estudio de la lengua española es un Recurso Educativo Abierto (REA) que explora la historia, la estructura y la diversidad de esta lengua global. El libro provee al alumno una introducción al estudio del español como sistema lingüístico e incluye temas como el desarrollo del español como lengua global, los sonidos y la ortografía de la lengua, la estructura de las palabras y las oraciones, la variación y el contacto de lenguas. El libro sirve de puente entre los cursos de lengua y los cursos avanzados de lingüística, sin abrumar al estudiante con todos los detalles científicos de la disciplina. A lo largo de los seis capítulos, se mantiene una finalidad didáctica práctica: se presenta la información de manera interactiva y se le invita al estudiante a aplicar sus conocimientos lingüísticos a contextos específicos, por ejemplo, en el uso del español en diversas profesiones, niveles sociales, regiones dialectales, etc.

Transportation Policies, Programs and History

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike)  25 H5P Activities    English

Author(s): Ivonne Audirac, Amber B. Raley, Jenifer Reiner, Soheil Sharifi-Asl

Editor(s): Jenifer Reiner

Subject(s): Transport planning and policy

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 23/01/2025

Transportation Policies, Programs and History is a text intended for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in urban and transportation planning. Contents by chapter include:

  1. Brief history of U.S. transportation policy and traffic congestion: A persistent transportation planning issue.
  2. Transportation planning and modeling.
  3. Transportation programming and evaluation.
  4. Equity in transportation planning
  5. Mobility modes.
  6. Transportation, accessibility, and the built environment.
  7. Transit and transit-oriented development.
  8. Transportation and new technologies.
  9. Sustainable transportation.
  10. Transportation in the Global South.

This textbook is part of a six-volume series produced under the grant OERTransport: Enabling Transportation Planning Professional Advancement awarded to the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) in consortium with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the University of South Florida (USF). It was developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.

Transportation Land Use Modeling and Policy (TLUMP)

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

Author(s): Qisheng Pan, Soheil Sharifi

Subject(s): Transport planning and policy

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 10/01/2025

Transportation Land Use Modeling and Policy is an open educational resource (OER) that offers a thorough exploration of various approaches and frameworks for modeling the complex relationship between land use and transportation, with a focus on scenario-based analysis for issues such as equity, environmental impact, and other critical transportation policies.

The textbook begins by providing an overview of the current urban transportation landscape, highlighting ongoing challenges like transportation equity. It then introduces foundational theories related to land use and transportation, setting the stage for an in-depth examination of different modeling approaches. Using case studies and real-world examples, primarily from North America, the book demonstrates how these models explain and predict the relationship between land use (residential, economic, industrial activities) and transportation (accessibility).

After reviewing existing integrated land use and transportation models and discussing the future direction of integrated land use and transportation planning, the latter part of the book delves deeper into travel demand modeling (TDM) practices. It highlights traditional methods like the four-step model and provides a brief overview of newer techniques such as activity- based and agent-based models.

This textbook is part of a six-volume series produced under the grant OERTransport: Enabling Transportation Planning Professional Advancement awarded to the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) in consortium with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the University of South Florida (USF). It was developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.

Green Cities and Transportation

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

Author(s): Ariadna Reyes-Sanchez, Soheil Sharifi-Asl, Ladan Mozaffarian

Editor(s): Amber Raley

Subject(s): Urban communities / city life

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 10/01/2025

This textbook equips advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the knowledge, skills, and multidisciplinary perspectives needed to understand how sustainable mobility and infrastructure can support climate change mitigation and transportation equity for low-income commuters.

The textbook is organized into three sections:

  1. Sustainability, Transportation Equity, and Planning.
  2. Case Studies and Lessons from the North and South.
  3. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Cities, and Mobility.

It includes eleven chapters, each featuring discussion questions, reading materials, and in-class exercises designed to help students develop a research paper on transportation.

This textbook is part of a six-volume series produced under the grant OERTransport: Enabling Transportation Planning Professional Advancement awarded to the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) in consortium with California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) and the University of South Florida (USF). It was developed under an Open Textbooks Pilot grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education. However, its contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the Department of Education, and no endorsement by the Federal Government should be assumed.