Ecology OER textbook?

[Erin Larson]

Hi all,

I'm planning for my fall Ecology course, and thinking about doing a class project that works on improving an Ecology OER textbook (to then be iteratively implemented as a class project across future course offerings too!). 

I've been working with our OER librarian to find an existing Ecology OER textbook that we could then adapt to our class, but am struggling to find one! I poked around the ESA website, LibreTexts, and some other online repositories but didn't find anything.

I thought that you all might have ideas of someone who might have written or be currently working on an OER Ecology textbook. 

Thanks,

Erin

Erin Larson, Ph.D.

Pronouns: she/her

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science

Alaska Pacific University

Phone: 907-564-8252

Research Site: erinlarson.weebly.com

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Translation by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart and Joel Isaak

 

Erin Larson, Ph.D.

Pronouns: she/her

Assistant Professor of Environmental Science

Alaska Pacific University

Phone: 907-564-8252

Research Site: erinlarson.weebly.com

 

Dena'inaq ełnen'aq' gheshtnu ch'q'u yeshdu.
I live and work on the land of the Dena’ina.

Translation by Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart and Joel Isaak

[emilyg...@gmail.com]

Here is one (full disclosure: I haven't vetted it yet, but it's on my list do): https://www.softchalkcloud.com/lesson/serve/2dhXu6Zsja1V5p/html

Best,

Emily

[Stephen Gosnell]

I had this same issue about 4 years ago when I converted our intro to ecology course to oer.  It will be nice to see what's been added since then.  I couldn't find a full text at that point, so I combined pieces from several open stax texts and other articles.  Everything is available at https://sites.google.com/view/env10031004/home.  I also have instructor resources (test banks,  slides with notes, etc) if they are useful to you.

Stephen

J. Stephen Gosnell, PhD

Assistant professor

Department of Natural Sciences, Baruch College, City University of New York

PhD Program in Biology, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Research web site

‪(914) 257-7313

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[Erin Vinson]

Hi Erin and all!

While it's not an OER textbook, CourseSource has a lot of Lesson articles in Ecology. It's not only a great place for teaching resources, but also a place to publish amazing activities that you have created (as Erin already knows!)!

With care,

Erin

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Erin Vinson

Campus Programs Coordinator, Maine Center for Research in STEM Education and School of Biology & Ecology

Managing Editor, CourseSource 

University of Maine

207.581.4666

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https://umaine.edu/risecenter/ 

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