Open Educational Resources (OER) at Wright

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."

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."

From Merry Mayer, Assistant Professor, for Political Science 201:
"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, Assistant Professor, for Political Science 204:
"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."

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."

Used by Prof. Warren Menezes for Chemistry courses

Used by Hellen Colman for Math 146: Discrete Math
"This is the perfect textbook for an entry level Discrete Math course which includes all topics we teach in Math 146 plus some extra material no needed in our class. Content is accurate and the text is very clear. Offers examples with solutions as well as a list of exercises which includes Sage cells. The use of the open source Sage is clearly a plus since it is a free book that does not requires expensive proprietary software. "

Used by Hellen Colman for Math 208: Calculus 2
"This book meets all standard evaluation criteria: is mathematically sound and written in standard English, proofread and edited. It has many exercises, provides answers to some and has a robust community of users. OpenStax provides a clear mechanism to suggest corrections and it is overall more accurate than any commercial book. This book covers all Calculus topics in a typical Calculus course, in particular it covers all SLO in our syllabus. Moreover, Minnesota State University created a course cartridge for this book to integrate into Brightspace."

Used by Hellen Colman for Math 212: Linear Algebra
"An introduction to the basic concepts of linear algebra, along with an introduction to the techniques of formal mathematics. Numerous worked examples and exercises, along with precise statements of definitions and complete proofs of every theorem, make the text ideal for independent study."

Used by Julius Nadas for 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."