{"id":1903,"date":"2024-11-27T11:57:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T16:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/pressbooksuserguide\/?post_type=chapter&p=1903"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:44:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:44:55","slug":"varied-approaches","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbooks.concordia.ca\/pressbooksuserguide\/chapter\/varied-approaches\/","title":{"raw":"Varied Approaches","rendered":"Varied Approaches"},"content":{"raw":"
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Streamlined and Elaborate Approaches to Open Textbooks<\/h2>\r\n
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\u00a0at Concordia<\/h2>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

Adopt a Textbook with Student Engagement<\/h3>\r\n[h5p id=\"65\"]\r\n
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\r\n\r\nBook Showcase 1:<\/strong> Student Engagement from Explorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology<\/a><\/em>, adopted by Salinda Hess, 2023, CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nExplorations: An Open Invitation to Biological Anthropology<\/i>, adopted by Salinda Hess for ANTH 203: Culture and Biology, is an excellent example of actively engaging students in an open textbook as a living document.\u00a0 Hess adopted an existing open textbook, developed a student assignment for her students to critique their own textbook, and led them to expand on its knowledge foundation. Her approach provides a blueprint for immediately adopting existing open textbooks, encouraging criticality, and integrating resources in a rapidly evolving field.\r\n\r\nNotice the highlighted sections. These are recommended edits from her students based on her assignment, serving to collaboratively improve the overall quality of the book as the document continues to expand. Hess's introduction<\/a> describes her approach.\r\n

Streamlined and Easy to Navigate<\/h3>\r\n[h5p id=\"66\"]\r\n
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\r\n\r\nBook Showcase 2:<\/strong> A streamlined approach from Quantitative Research Methods for the Applied Human Sciences<\/a><\/em> customized by Peter Morden, 2024, CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nA simplified design strategy has its merits. Customized by Peter Morden, Quantitative Research Methods for the Applied Human Sciences<\/em> offers an easy-to-navigate open textbook for AHSC 380: Quantitative Research Methods for Practitioners. Flow, clarity, consistency, and ease of navigation are priorities in this approach. Multimedia and interactive components have been stripped down. Meanwhile, each chapter concludes with key takeaways, exercises, and references.\r\n

Text-Image Pairings in Fine Arts<\/h3>\r\n[h5p id=\"63\"]\r\n
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\r\n\r\nBook Showcase 3:<\/strong> Text-image pairings from Creating the Modern Intersections of Art & Society in the Nineteenth Century<\/a><\/em> by Loren Lerner and Karine Antaki, 2024, CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nCreating the Modern Intersections of Art & Society in the Nineteenth Century<\/em> by Loren Lerner and Karine Antaki is an open textbook designed for ARTH 366: Studies in 19th\u2011Century Art and Architecture.\u00a0 The systematic text-image pairings in each chapter come together within the layout of a Pressbook project, which is suited to the visual needs of art history. Art historians work with thousands of images and often require their students to practice formal analysis, which involves examining the images closely. Offering a renewed approach to viewing images on slide projectors and in the cumbersome, canonical art history textbooks of yesteryear, this open textbook showcases and provides quick access to relevant images among the thousands of public domain works available online. This textbook subject matter is also suited to nineteenth-century studies and the fine arts more broadly. Relevant for the future of textbooks in art history and period-specific studies, it is worth noting that new images enter the public domain each year.\r\n

Choose Your Own Adventure<\/h3>\r\n[h5p id=\"64\"]\r\n
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\r\n\r\nBook Showcase 4:<\/strong> Choose Your Own Adventure from the Better Practices in the Classroom<\/a><\/em> by Natalie Kouri-Towe and Myloe Martel-Perry, 2024, CC BY-NC 4.0<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nThe Better Practices in the Classroom<\/i> textbook by Natalie Kouri-Towe and Myloe Martel-Perry illustrates how to encourage tailored learning. Notice how, at the beginning of each section, there are Self-Assessment Quizzes. These quizzes test the reader's familiarity with the material through multiple-choice questions and suggestions at the end of each quiz. The approach allows readers to skim through familiar parts or read through sections to deepen their knowledge. <\/span>\r\n\r\nAlthough this open guidebook is meant for professors across all disciplines who teach undergraduate students, the choose-your-own-adventure approach could be developed for undergraduate courses, especially those required courses with students at various levels, including first-year and fourth-year students. The interactive approach and checkpoints also make it easier to navigate a large pool of material and review it when necessary.\u00a0<\/span>","rendered":"
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Streamlined and Elaborate Approaches to Open Textbooks<\/h2>\n
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