OER-Open-source Educational Resources

The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses

The Explorations Biological Anthropology Lab Manual includes 1-4 labs/activities for each of the sixteen chapters and three appendices in Explorations.

This class is an introduction to physical anthropology, but for many it will be your first anthropology class, or perhaps your first science class in college, so it is worthwhile to back up and introduce both science and anthropology.

Students will need an assigned text to assist with these activities, identify bone and features, understand the proper use of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium, significance of primate taxonomy, and specific information about various early human forms.

Produced by the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges

This Open Educational Resource (OER) brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic video lectures about the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics), supplemented with discussion of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic findings. There is a Canadian English lean in material.

Introduction to cultural anthropology created by community college instructors.

The text showcases the historical context of the discipline, with a strong focus on anthropology as a living and evolving field.

This book is intended for use in a variety of introductory archaeology settings, such as in lectures and lab courses

Introduction to Archaeology: A Workbook, is designed to assist students in the Intro to Archaeology course by giving them questions and assignments to reinforce what is learned in the classroom lectures.

Includes Soundcloud recordings of each chapter, links to primary sources and articles, and eleven chapters covering topics typically included in an introductory course on anthropology of magic, witchcraft, and religion, including: theoretical approaches, witchcraft, ritual, myth, comparative religion, syncretism, altered states of consciousness, and religious specialists.

OER Physical Geography Textbook (2021)

This text approaches geography as experts understand the discipline, focusing on connections and an in-depth understanding of core themes

Geography is a diverse discipline that has some sort of connection to most every other academic discipline. This connection is the spatial perspective, which essentially means if a phenomenon can be mapped, it has some kind of relationship to geography. Studying the entire world is a fascinating subject, and geographical knowledge is fundamental to a competent understanding of our world.

This text integrates key concepts behind the technology with practical concerns and real-world applications. Recognizing that many potential GIS users are nonspecialists or may only need a few maps, this book is designed to be accessible, pragmatic, and concise. The text also illustrates how GIS is used to ask questions, inform choices, and guide policy. From the melting of the polar ice caps to privacy issues associated with mapping, this book provides a gentle, yet substantive, introduction to the use and application of digital maps, mapping, and GIS.

This book is an algebra-based survey of atmospheric science. This book is designed for students and professionals who want to understand and apply basic meteorological concepts, but who do not need to derive equations.

The main purpose of anthropology is to understand human biological and cultural diversity, and the origins of humans. So, the humans that anthropologists study can be modern or ancient, and can span across the globe. Anthropologists are unique in that they study the entirety of human existence over time and space.

The curated collection of OER provided below was developed by the ASCCC OERI