Open Educational Resources (OER): Applied Behavioral Science and Social & Human Services

This open textbook is being utilized in an introductory sociology course taught by Anne Marenco, Ph.D. at College of the Canyons. The students are mostly non-majors who come in with very little knowledge of sociology. The open textbook contains twenty-one chapters of basic sociology concepts and theory with learning outcomes and case studies. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was reducing the cost so students could afford them. Most student access chapters of the open textbook in PDF format from the course management system.

Reviews: The book has been reviewed by two CCC faculty (CCC1, CCC2) and one UC faculty member from within the California higher education system.

This introductory course provides a comprehensive coverage of core concepts in Sociology grounded in both classic studies and current and emerging research. A heutagogical instructional design requires that students in the course provide much of the substantive content and teaching presence. Student led discussions provide the opportunity for an engaging and personally relevant exploration of the discipline.

The content in this course was curated by Professor Bill Pelz at Herkimer College / SUNY and is provided under a Creative Commons license.

Open Course through UC Irvine.
Sociology 2A: International Sociology by David Frank is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
http://ocw.uci.edu/search/results/keyword/sociology+2a+international+sociology

Open Textbook through Saylor.

By Ron Hammond, Paul Cheney, Raewyn Pearsey.

NOBA is a psychology focused open education platform.

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under
a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

The attribution for this derivative is: "Child, Family, and Community" by Rebecca Laff and Wendy Ruiz, College of the Canyons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work

Publisher: College of the Canyons (2018)
CC BY

Textbook resources for elementary schools.

Blog with free multimedia and e-learning resources that are useful to trainers, academics and the children and young people’s (CYP) workforce.

Open Textbook from African Virtual University

Results on OER Commons

The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

On Open Stax. Textbook content produced by Kelvin Seifert is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 license.

This is a free child development lesson for educational purposes from AAAS but not OER so no adaptations (use as-is).

Grand Challenges of social work webinar series by the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare. Videos include topics such as "Stop Family Violence", "End Homelessness", and "Financial Capability and Asset Building for all."

Develop an understanding of some of the approaches involved in caring for vulnerable children, with this free online course or explore what inequalities are and how they can be reduced through health and social care

OER Commons provides a curated collection of textbooks and resources for social work studies

Open Learn provides introductory to advanced courses on social work. Courses include topics such as "Homelessness and need", "Meeting minority needs", "Interview with a social worker", "Social care in the community", and "Becoming a critical social work practitioner.

Open Social Work textbooks and teaching resources. Created by students and educators.

Open Textbook Library provides a textbook called "Instruction in Functional Assessment" that introduces learners to functional assessment (FA), which includes a variety of assessment approaches (indirect, observational, and experimental) for identifying the cause of an individual’s challenging behavior for the purpose of designing effective treatments.

Publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.
CC BY-NC-SA