http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:05:46 PDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:05:46 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=692392 This is a free, open textbook.״Student Learning Outcomes: - Assess health behavior choices, apply that information to everyday life for the improvement of individual, family, and community well-being. - Identify preconceived ideas about knowledge, values, and behavior that affect health and compare with established research and accepted scientific evidence.ObjectivesThe student will be able to: - appraise and assess public attitudes and behavior regarding health and disease.- recognize, examine and formulate the importance of immunizations.- recognize and assess public bias towards aging, diabetes, epilepsy, STDs, etc.- differentiate the major classifications of communicable and non-communicable diseases.- examine and discuss the role of epidemiology in Public Health.- assess and analyze nutritional behavior.- identify the major means of transmission for communicable diseases.- identify and examine immunizations in relationship to immunity.- examine the three levels of Health Promotion/Disease Prevention.- identify, compare, and discuss normal versus abnormal patterns of behavior.- identify and compare the major classifications of drugs- examine and appraise patterns of drug abuse.- compare cultural health behaviors and suggest associated consequences.״ http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=255613 A self-paced and introductory tutorial about use of open educational resources as alternatives to textbooks for college teachers. Visitors are invited to actively participate by posting Activity Reflection entries to the course Discussion area. This tutorial has 9 Lessons organized into 3 Units: Background, OER Sources, and OER Use.  Topics covered include:OER Introduction OER Open Courseware OER Fair Use, Copyright, and TEACH Act OER Identifying Sources OER Discipline-Specific Sources OER Public Domain Textbook Sources OER Use of Primary Sources OER Development OER Delivery, Storage, and Organization http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=360731 "The January/February 2009 EDUCAUSE Reviewhighlighting the topic of opennessis now available online, including a feature segment on open/closed textbooks with commentary from all sides of the issue: publishers, students, authors, and institutions." Here, the author explains the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) efforts to "to identify, create, and/or repurpose existing open educational resources as open textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty."