This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 5. This level 5 reader, one of a series of six readers, is roughly...
BC Open Textbooks
These open textbooks are openly licensed using a Creative Commons license, and are freely available in ebook formats, or through print-on-demand books available at cost.
NNELS is facilitating access to these publicly available textbooks by including catalogue records with links to these textbooks. All the links in these records will take you to the BC Open Textbooks website.
An important facet of the Open Textbooks is that they were written and designed with accessibility in mind. All are available in more than one format, and cover a range of topics including arts, business, health, recreation and tourism, science, social science, trades, and upgrading programs.
The BC Campus Open Textbooks Project was Canada’s first official open textbook project. Funding for the first stage was announced by the BC provincial government's Ministry of Advanced Education in October 2012, with a second round of funding being announced in the spring of 2014, particularly for trades and skills training.
For more information, please see the full listing of the Open Textbooks and learn more about the Open Textbooks history and rationale.
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Author:Ivits, ShantelSummary: - Author:Ivits, ShantelSummary:
This reader contains 11 original instructional essays written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 6. This level 6 reader, one of a series of six readers,...
- Author:Ivits, ShantelSummary:
This reader contains 11 original instructional essays written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Course Pack 6. This level 6 reader, one of a series of six readers,...
- Author:Omassi, Jenna, Yano, Brady, Munro, DanielSummary:
Student support and advocacy for OER is important to ensure that OER gain or continue to build momentum on campuses, bring together community members, and push for the adoption and creation of resources. This toolkit provides...
- Author:Brown, NoreenSummary:
This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well....
- Author:Avissar, Yael, Choi, Jung Ho, DeSaix, Jean, Jurukovski, Vladimir, Wise, Robert, Rye, ConnieSummary:
Biology is designed for multi-semester biology courses for science majors. It is grounded on an evolutionary basis and includes exciting features that highlight careers in the biological sciences and everyday applications of the...
- Author:Clark, Mary Ann, Choi, Jung Ho, Douglas, MatthewSummary:
Biology 2e (2nd edition) is designed to cover the scope and sequence requirements of a typical two-semester biology course for science majors. The text provides comprehensive coverage of foundational research and core biology concepts...
- Author:Dillon, DaveSummary:
"Blueprint for Success in College: Career Decision Making is a students' guide for the process of identifying a major and career. This text focuses on career exploration. This book is a remix of two previously existing OER (Open...
- Author:Dillon, DaveSummary:
Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies is a students' guide for classroom success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college focuses on study skills and time...
- Author:Hill, Linda Bruce, Lamoreaux, Alise, Nissila, Phyllis, Priester, Thomas, Dillon, DaveSummary:
Blueprint for Success in College and Career is a students' guide for classroom and career success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation focuses on study skills, time management, career...
- Author:Adeleye, OlaoluSummary:
This guide is designed to offer readers the opportunity to reflect on the significance of racism in their own lives. Act 1: Self and Schemas at an individual level. Act 2: Society and Systems at a structural level. Act 3: Schools and...
- Author:Crowell, BenjaminSummary:
This short text is designed more for self-study or review than for classroom use; full solutions are given for nearly all the end-of-chapter problems. For a more traditional text designed for classroom use, see Fundamentals of Calculus...
- Author:Green, ArthurSummary:
This first year Geography textbook takes a holistic approach to Geography by incorporating elements of physical, human and regional geography, as well as bringing in methods and perspectives from spatial information science. This...
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This is the first edition of the open text book Building a Competitive Investment Climate on First Nation Lands. This textbook is for students who are First Nation and tribal government employees or students who would like to work for...
- Author:Jebens, Jen, Brooks, CarellinSummary:
"Building Blocks of Academic Writing covers typical writing situations for developing academic writers, from prewriting and research through expressing themselves online. Developmental work in different types of paragraphs--descriptive...
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Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.
- Author:Stanberry, Kurt, Byars, Stephen M.Summary:
Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application...
- Author:Olivier, Jean-PaulSummary:
"Business math is the study of mathematics required by the field of business. Business professionals will work with taxes, gross earnings, product prices, and currency exchange; they will be offered loans, lines of credit, mortgages,...
- Author:Cruthers, ArleySummary:
Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business...
- Author:Moshenko, Kim, Mazur, IzabelaSummary:
The content of this textbook is aligned with the British Columbia Adult Basic Education learning outcomes for the Advanced Level Business/Technical Mathematics. The textbook covers nine groups of learning outcomes organized in chapters...
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