SUPPORTING Your Course

Example of an Activities page for a topic

Build within your LMS

As you gather the provided Quantitative Reasoning course content, consider the following as your build in your institution's LMS.

  1. Create your Pages/Folders to house the provided content. These Pages will be linked within the Modules/Sections in your LMS

  2. Create and upload Files as needed. These files will serve as additional or optional content for student learning

  3. Add assessment activities (assignments, discussion forums, and quizzes for evidence of student learning

  4. Develop a Home page/site to provide navigation for your course

TEXTBOOKS AND OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE (OER)

Textbook Content:

Lippman, D. (2017). Math in Society. OpenTextBookStore. http://www.opentextbookstore.com/ is available under a CC BY-SA license
Lumen Learning Course: Math for Liberal Arts – Lippman

Lynn Marecek, L. and Anthony-Smith, M. (2012). Elementary Algebra. OpenStax. https://cnx.org/contents/CImQfPDv@8.50:GfaWl1GG@17/Introduction by OpenStax, Elementary Algebra. OpenStax CNX. Jun 23, 2020 http://cnx.org/contents/0889907c-f0ef-496a-bcb8-2a5bb121717f@8.50 is available under a CC BY license.

Lumen Learning. (2019). Concepts in Quantitative Reasoning. Lumen Learning. https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-concepts-Quantitative Reasoning/ is generally available under a CC BY license. Each piece of the Lumen Learning course has a specific Creative Commons license and attribution from different contributors. Click the words "Licenses and Attributions" at the bottom of each page for copyright and licensing information specific to the material on that page.

WHY USE OER?

We are using OERs as much as possible to provide affordable access for students and flexibility for the instructors. An OER is any resource that has a specific license that gives up-front permission to share, distribute, edit, remix, and keep the content.

Why use Creatuive Commons License (OER)

Creative Commons License Explanation