In April 2021, the Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) convened a working group of institution, state, and national leaders to help advise its efforts to develop a set of principles to improve consistency and reliability in the field for measuring cost savings and the return on investment (ROI) of open education resources (OER). The result…

Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials with an open license so that they can be freely copied, modified, and reused. While the rising cost of textbooks is a concern in higher education, over 50% of the surveyed educators stated that they are unaware of the OER and how they could replace the traditional textbooks. In addition,…

Objective: The authors describe a course of instruction for psychiatry residents that attempts to provide the cognitive and informational tools necessary to make scientifically grounded decision making a routine part of clinical practice. Methods: In weekly meetings over two academic years, the course covers the psychopharmacology of various…

The intent of this field tested instructional package is to acquaint the student with the element of management as it functions in the production of goods and services. Defining behavioral objectives, the course description includes a media guide, suggested classroom activities, and sample student evaluation forms as well as the basic information…

Part of an economic education series, the course package is designed to teach basic concepts and principles of microeconomics and how they can be applied to various world problems. For use with college students, learning is gained through lectures, tutorials, textbooks, programmed text, cases, and TIPS (Teaching Information Processing System).…

This instructional manual provides an approach and planned sequence for teaching a course on methods and materials of vocational counseling. (The course is intended for counselors who are relatively new to the field of vocational counseling or who need to become acquainted with newly developed tools in the field.) Covered first are tools and…

This guide is designed to provide job-relevant tasks, performance objectives, performance guides, resources, teaching activities, and instructional resources for teaching consumer education I and II in South Carolina. It may be used with any teaching method selected by the instructor. Consumer Education I contains four units: demonstrate…

This section on personal development is one of three that comprise a program entitled Related Instruction for Cooperative Part-Time Training. (Other sections are Basic Life Skills and Job-Related Instruction.) It contains six instructional units. Each unit includes the following basic components: unit and specific objectives, notes to the…

This curriculum guide, consisting of materials for use in providing an industrial arts instructional program, focuses on competencies related to life coping skills, technology, free enterprise, and career opportunities through industrial arts. Addressed in the course are the following topics: career planning and development; decision making;…