Open Educational Resources (OER) at Wright

Used by Alicia Anzaldo for Biology 121: "This textbook provides all of the content needed for introductory biology along with chapter summaries, review questions, and great figures."

Used by Mira Kolodkin, Noah Marshall, Erin Lambers, and Darlene Attiah for Biology 226 and Biology 227. "This book is offered as a low-cost alternative if students choose not to purchase the textbook. The book has strong descriptions and illustrations. The book aligns very well with course objectives."

Julius Nadas, Math 118: Two of the twenty five SLO's are not covered in the book, so I have had to supplement it with information on these topics: (1) Use z-scores (standard scores) to compare the relative position of data from different distributions. (2) Apply the principles of a normal distribution to real-life data that is normally distributed. But the book does a great job with the other 23 SLO's and it has many useful examples."

From Beverly Bennett, Social Sciences: "I’ve been using this for Cultural Anthropology, ANTHRO 202; and it’s worked quite well. It covers major topics, and I add in readings on others I want to cover, including two major topics, plus articles. I omit a few chapters, and portions of a couple others. But I’ve been happy with it overall, and very glad to have a free textbook. This e-book comes with additional teaching supplements, including PowerPoints, discussion questions, activities, recommended films (unfortunately all seem to be expensive purchases), and assignments."
Jo Zalea Matias, Anthropology: "Perspectives does an excellent job of meeting my student learning outcomes by providing students with a knowledge and understanding of basic anthropological concepts and vocabulary, as well as basic anthropological approaches to concepts like sex and gender, religion, etc."

From Merry Mayer, Political Science: " I find this textbook to be both remarkably succinct and thorough on what needs to be covered. And since the textbook is free and concisely written, it enables me to incorporate at least one non-textbook that is both fun and informative about a particular aspect of our governing system."

From Merry Mayer, Political Science: "What makes this book different from many other IR textbooks is that each chapter is written by a different scholar and only one is from the U.S. This gives the students the perspectives from a wide range of international scholars, which I think is an incredible plus when we are studying the subject."