Open Educational Resources at LCC: Health Sciences

The project is led by Chippewa Valley Technical College, and the textbooks are being collaboratively written with faculty from Wisconsin technical colleges. The books will be reviewed by statewide nursing faculty, deans, healthcare alliance members, and other industry representatives to ensure the content is current and accurate.

This Nutrition text was developed for a 3-hour, intermediate-level, nutrition course at Kansas State University. The book is divided into 13 chapters that contain well-produced graphics. The enire book can easily be opened in Google Docs where it can easily be edited and then exported as in the filetype of your choice.

The BioWiki is a collaborative approach toward biology education where an Open Access textbook environment is constantly being written and re-written by students and faculty members resulting in a free Biology textbook to supplant conventional paper-based books.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. Use the search to find content related to your interest.

You can link to e-books from databases in D2L. You can link to the entire book, a chapter of a book, or specific pages. Contact your library liaison with questions.