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04/30/2025
profile-icon Victoria Peters

The Center for Learning, Innovation, and Collaboration at the University of Wisconsin-Superior is excited to announce the publication of three new, open textbooks: 

 

by Lynn Goerdt 

 

Lynn Goerdt's Open Educational Resource provides knowledge and skills for professionals actively engaged in change making as a necessary way to fulfil their mission. This includes, but is not limited to, social workers, educators, policy makers, health professionals, and environmental scientists. This textbook is the result of Goerdt's extensive experience both working and teaching in the field of macro community and organizational change. 

 

by J. Richard Freese 

 

People and Music: An Appreciation and History serves as an introduction to the history of Western music from the Middle Ages through today: trends, innovations, people, and worthwhile music examples. It also includes samples of music from around the world and popular music and discusses how they have impacted Western music. While it would be beyond the scope of this text to include every outstanding composer and music example throughout history, the author hopes students are inspired to further explore eras, styles, and musicians they find particularly interesting. 

 

by Amanda Zbacnik & Staci Gilpin 

 

In a society that is increasingly, beautifully diverse, educators need to ensure that data being collected about student(s) keeps the students’ perspectives and needs at the forefront of behavioral interventions. Zbacnik and Gilpin’s Open Educational Resource strategically guides readers through each step in the functional behavioral assessment and interventions process and continues to center and consider how student identity impacts educational journey. 

 

All three books are also available as PDFs and ePub files. 

 

Happy reading! 

04/08/2025
profile-icon Victoria Peters

I’d like to bring to your attention a new OER from the University of Virginia:Cover image for Higher Education Evolution: Unraveling the Past, Confronting Today's Challenges, and Empowering Student Independence

Higher Education Evolution: Unraveling the Past, Confronting Today's Challenges, and Empowering Student Independence, by Rachel Most

From the author:  “This book is a compilation of my personal journey in higher education and of what I have seen and learned from 30 years working in that field. To say there has been a sea change in how students perceive and navigate college and in the level of parental involvement since I began working with college students in the early 1990s is an understatement. The changes have been epic. There are four parts to this book. The first part (Chapter 1) is my story where I share my experiences growing up, getting to college, and then getting to graduate school. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 (the second part) include the history of higher education, what it has become and what I think it should be, and the value of the liberal arts. In Chapters 5, 6, and 7 (part three), I share some of the situations I dealt with as a dean and advisor, offer reflections on the pandemic and higher education, and then offer some advice for students. These sections come together at different points and in different ways for the fourth and concluding part of the book—the epilogue.”