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Open Touro OER textbooks

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OER created or adapted by Touro Libraries' OER initiative, in collaboration with faculty authors.
Optimizing Your Capstone Experience: A Guidebook for Allied Health Professionals
This guidebook is designed for allied health professional students. Each chapter in this guidebook provides students with useful information, tools, and examples that will support them before, during, and after their capstone journey. This is a one of a kind resource that can be used in a variety of professional academic settings. The primary goal of this guidebook is to support students throughout their capstone experience and to help them understand how the capstone process will enrich both their personal and professional advancement.
Introduction to Financial Analysis
This Open Textbook is a dynamic guide incorporating the essential skills needed to build a foundation in Financial Analysis. Students and readers will learn how to insightfully read a Financial Statement, utilize key financial ratios in order to derive forward-looking investment-related inferences from the accounting data, engage in elementary forecasting and modeling, master the theory of the Time Value of Money, and learn to price stocks and bonds in an environment in which interest rates constantly change. Ample problems and solutions, and review questions are provided to the student so that s/he can gauge his/her progress. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students’ experiences.
Interpersonal Communication
Interpersonal Communication relies on, and adapts, with gratitude, materials from the following Open Educational Resources:
"Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies" published by the University of Minnesota Libraries.

Other Open Touro publications: presentations, articles, courses, etc.

Articles

Magro, J., & Tabaei, S. V. (2020). Results from a Psychology OER pilot program: faculty and student perceptions, cost savings, and academic outcomes. Open Praxis, 12 (1), 83-99. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.12.1.1007

Presentations

Bruno, F., Ogunsakin, O., Snyder, K. & Tabaei, S. V. (2021, Dec 9). Open Educational Resources: The libraries and faculty fellows in partnership for student success and savings. Webinar presented to the Touro community.

Snyder, K. S., Tabaei, S. V., & Valente, T. (2021, Oct) Sowing seeds for sustainability: How a small grant helped a library-led OER initiative grow. Presentation at Open Education Conference.

Westbrook, G., & Tabaei, S. V. (2020). OER is served: Framing OER as a service to stakeholders. Lightning talk at Open Education Conference.

Terciotti Magro, J., & Tabaei, S. V. (2018, October). Providing a powerful choice: Lessons from a young OER initiative. Roundtable presented at the 15th Annual Open Education Conference, Niagara Falls, NY.

Courses

Touro Faculty OER Course (2022) is an online course, consisting of 8 modules, designed for faculty to learn the fundamental concepts of evaluating, using, and authoring open educational resources. This course was adapted for use at Touro from Texas Learn OER by Carrie Gits for DigiTex and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY).