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Montgomery College (MC) adopted and adapted the Lumen Spanish I open educational resource for its introductory Spanish I courses. Each unit incorporates vocabulary and grammatical structures that beginning language learners need as they start to communicate in Spanish, as well as practice exercises, communicative activities, and embedded audio. MC faculty have developed self-graded exercises at the end of each unit, which have been incorporated into the Pressbooks, to assess student learning and understanding.

This Guide is meant to be the handbook for using Pressbooks effectively to produce books. Pressbooks is a simple tool, but it’s powerful too, and harnessing that power requires some learning.

This Guide should cover the basics of Pressbooks, including how to quickly get a book into Pressbooks and out the other end as a beautifully designed PDF (for print) or ebook (MOBI for Kindle, or EPUB for Apple, Kobo, Nook and others).

You will also find here resources for various features or special formatting, including how to place images, create footnotes, or put in pullquotes.

Effective communication is one of the most sought-after skills in today’s job market. Proactive Thinker Volume I – Communication is designed to equip current Montgomery College students with the essential communication competencies that employers value. This book offers a structured yet flexible self-paced approach to building strong communication skills through five key competencies, each supported by insightful content and real-world applications.

What sets this book apart is its interactive approach—each chapter features assessments that allow students to apply their learning in meaningful ways. Successfully completing these assessments earns students the Communication digital badge, one of four badges in the Proactive Thinker Microcredential at Montgomery College. Alongside Communication, students can further develop their Critical Thinking, Innovation, and Teamwork skills—core competencies that signal career readiness to future employers.

Whether you’re preparing for the workforce, strengthening your communication abilities, or working toward the full Proactive Thinker Microcredential, this book is your first step in demonstrating your skills with confidence.

Winner of the 2024 American Association of Community Colleges Award for Faculty Innovation, this project shares stories of resilience, strength, and hope. Montgomery College’s diverse student body is one of its most valuable resources.

This Pressbook has been designed to support educators in advancing their instructional design skills with Open Educational Resources (OER). It is organized into five key activities: Recognizing, Accepting, Adapting, Exploring, and Advancing. Each section includes specific objectives, reflective exercises, and practical applications focused on enhancing accessibility, inclusivity, and collaboration through OER.

To pursue the OER Learning Architect badge, you must first successfully complete the OER Advocate badge. You can refer to the OER Advocate Pressbook for more information. Once the prerequisite badge is attained, you may begin working through these activities. Please refer to the rubric for detailed guidance, or contact Christine Crefton for further assistance.

This toolkit has been created to provide an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is broken into four sections: Getting Started, Copyright and Creative Commons, Finding OER, and Teaching with OER. Each chapter is accompanied with learning objectives, interactive components, and an activity to complete. For those interested in earning the OER Advocate badge, please complete all four activities. Refer to the rubric for guidance or contact Christine Crefton for more information.

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) Open Pedagogy Fellowship Toolkit is meant as a resource for both instructors and institutions. Within this resource, readers will find examples of a wide variety of openly-licensed renewable assignments that can be assigned and applied to a variety of subject areas and disciplines. Of course, each assignment speaks directly to at least one UN SDG. Beyond that, this resource also serves as a guide for institutions who wish to adopt and adapt this program by bringing it to their home institution.