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No Limits

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Author(s): University of Texas at Arlington

Subject(s): The Arts

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 05/12/2024

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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Fundamentals of Math, Physics, and Statistics for Future Transportation Professionals

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Author(s): Anurag Pande, Peyton Ratto, Ahmed Farid

Subject(s): Transport planning and policy

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

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 05/12/2024

This textbook and OER material cover tools and basic knowledge required to master the prerequisite essentials of physics, mathematics, and statistics applied in transportation engineering. To our knowledge, no such textbook currently exists to build the KSTs (Knowledge, Skills, Tools) for college freshmen’ remedial courses required by most transportation engineering graduate programs that admit non-engineers (e.g., PHYS 141, MATH 142, STAT 321 at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo). The textbook modules are intended for students with undergraduate degrees in planning and other less technical fields who are interested in pursuing transportation careers where background engineering knowledge is required.

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

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Transportation Policies, Programs and History

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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: 05/12/2024

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.

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Green Cities and Transportation

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

Editor(s): Amber Raley

Subject(s): Urban communities

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 05/12/2024

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.

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Transportation Land Use Modeling and Policy (TLUMP)

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Author(s): Qisheng Pan, Soheil Sharifi

Subject(s): Transport planning and policy

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 05/12/2024

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.

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The Little Orange Book

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Author(s): The University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers

Editor(s): Art Brownlow, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Weston Rose

Subject(s): Education

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 05/12/2024

Teaching is a powerful profession. Whether you teach workshop-style classes of twenty-five students or convene your class in lecture halls with five hundred or more students, whether you teach first-year students or doctoral ones, your influence is profound. You are the representative of and the gateway into your discipline, and it is up to you to ensure students learn what they need to know to move on to the next level. But more than that, you have the potential to change students’ lives – to encourage them to think openly and strategically about the world around them, to help them communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences, and to help them contribute to the disciplinary, public and personal communities to which they currently belong and the ones to which they aspire to belong someday. But that potential, that power, that responsibility can be overshadowed by day-to-day uncertainties about how to be an effective teacher. Where can you turn to get advice or practical suggestions from experts? The Little Orange Book: Short Lessons in Excellent Teaching is modeled after Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book: Lessons and Teachings from a Lifetime in Golf. The vignettes and commentaries included here were written by the members of the University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. This honorific group represents the most accomplished and renowned teachers from the entire University of Texas System. The UT System has eight academic campuses and over 200,000 students. Each campus has some shade of orange as its chosen school color, inspiring the title of this volume, but the pieces are intended to be relevant well beyond the Lone Star State. The Little Orange Book contains short essays focused on the practical fundamentals of great teaching, revealing best strategies in and out of the classroom, no matter what the discipline or level of instruction. The topics range from simple but important tips such as remembering students’ names and creating a safe zone within the classroom to more advanced considerations such as determining when to use groups and drawing concepts for better understanding. There are also motivational pieces that focus on inspiring curiosity and introducing students to the tantalizing secrets of your discipline. Intermixed with the passages are one-liners and questions intended to provoke thought, reflection, discussion, and ultimately inspiration to try new things in your own class. We hope that readers – new and experienced teachers alike – will find many useful suggestions while reading The Little Orange Book. Teaching at all levels is currently undergoing tremendous change, and it will continue to do so. But the fundamentals of great teaching, like the fundamentals of a great golf game, are timeless.

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Big Data for Epidemiology: Applied Data Analysis Using National Health Surveys

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Author(s): Tiffany B. Kindratt

Subject(s): Epidemiology and Medical statistics

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 02/12/2024

National data sets provide an avenue for students to practice data analytic skills while also answering meaningful research questions. This open education resource was developed to train future public health professionals how to conduct secondary data analysis of national health surveys using SAS statistical software. SAS software was selected because it is one of the most commonly used software programs used among public health departments and academia. The book includes details on how to analyze public-use data from five common national health surveys, including the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) and National Health and Nutrition and Examination Survey (NHANES). All datasets and corresponding syntax files are available from the Open ICPSR Data Repository.

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Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook

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Author(s): Ashley Lemke

Subject(s): Archaeology, Anthropology

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 02/12/2024

Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook, is designed to assist professors, instructors, and students in introductory level archaeology courses. This workbook provides students with review materials and additional aspects to consider, to reinforce what is learned in the classroom lectures and through other materials. The workbook is organized by topics and chapters include questions, activities, and materials that reflect on archaeology and introduce students to this exciting and important field of discovery!

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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: 02/12/2024

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.

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Current and Emerging Trends in the Management of International Disasters

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Author(s): Annette Chretien, PhD, Brenda Murphy, PhD, Bryce Gunson, PhD(c), Christine Raj, BA, Christopher J Ainsworth MBA CEM®, Christopher Sheach, MA DEM, CEM®, Cihan Aydiner, Ph.D., Danielle J. Mayberry, JD, David A. McEntire, PhD, SFHEA, Dulce Suarez, Ph.D., Glenn Jones ESM CEM®, Hsin-Hsuan “Shel” Lin, SJD, Iuliia Hoban , Ph.D., Jack L. Rozdilsky, Ph.D., Jeffrey Glick, PhD, Jennifer Russell, MSN, RN, IBCLC, NHDP-BC, CHEP, Josh Ayers, Joshua D. McDuffie, M.S., E.I., Kazi Amdadul Hoque, MA, MPH, MSS, Kelbie R. Kennedy, JD, Kent Cawley, DBA, Kesley J. Richardson, DPA, MPH, CEM®, Laura J. Brown, PhD, Laura M. Phipps, DrPH, MPH, CPH, RS, Logan Gerber-Chavez, Ph.D., Lorraine Schneider, MSc, CEM®, Marc Anthonisen, MPA, Marcelo M. Ferreira, PhD, CEM®, Michael Prasad, MA, CEM®, Mikey Latner, Muhammad Awfa Islam, Oenone Chadburn, MA (Econ), Ozzie Baron, Patrick S. Roberts, PhD, Ray Hsienho Chang, Ph.D., Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner, MPA, Rita V. Burke, PhD, MPH, Romeo B. Lavarias, DPA, Shirley Feldmann-Jensen, DPPD, MPH, RN, PHN, Tanya Buhler Corbin, Ph.D., Terry D. Cooper, DHSc, MS, MPH, CEM®, Terrence O’Sullivan, PhD, MAAS, Yi-En “Mike” Tso, PhD., Yungnane Yang, PhD, Zawad Ibn Farid

Editor(s): Laura M. Phipps, DrPH, MPH, CPH, RS, David A. McEntire, PhD, SFHEA

Subject(s): Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)

Publisher: Mavs Open Press

Last updated: 02/12/2024

This edited book examines major problems facing the international disaster community as well as innovative solutions to global emergency management, focusing on the current and emerging trends in disaster management that cross geographic, social, and political borders. Each chapter provides takeaway lessons from preparedness approaches and response techniques employed by different countries to address current and emerging threats and issues. Contributing authors include scholars, researchers, and practitioners in fields related to disaster science and international emergency management.