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    Class Slides for Sustainable Property Management
    Hopkins, Erin A. (Virginia Tech, 2023)

    Class slides for Sustainable Property Management (2023) are freely-available, screen-reader friendly, openly-licensed, and editable. The slides align with the freely-available open textbook, Sustainable Property Management, which is the required text for Virginia Tech's Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management, PM 3674, Property Management Operations. The collection includes chapter-level .ppt slides with questions and activities for each of the eight chapters. The open textbook, Sustainable Property Management, is freely available in PDF, ePub, Pressbooks, and other formats at https://doi.org/10.21061/sustainable_property_management. About the license
    Unless otherwise noted, the book, slides, and contents therein are licensed with a Creative Commons NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) 4.0 license (human readable version) | legal code, which allows anyone to remix, tweak, and build upon the work for uses which are primarily non-commercial. New works must acknowledge the original work and be non-commercial. Derivative versions must be licensed under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. See Creative Commons' Best Practices for Attribution for further information. Help us!
    If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook and/or slides, please help us understand your use by filling out this form How to adapt and share the slides
    Instructors are encouraged to customize the slide deck by adding their own content and examples. According to the Creative Commons BY NC SA license, customized and shared versions of the slides must: - Retain the original copyright statement - Be released under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY NC SA) 4.0 license - Include a link to the original slide deck source: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11342 - Include brief statement regarding whether or not changes were made - List the name of the adapter Find, adapt, and share resources
    Instructors are encouraged to share their versions and other resources created for this content area via the Instructor Resource Portal in OER Commons. View errata
    Report an error     Accessibility
    Virginia Tech is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. All figures within the slides have alternative text. This work is published by Virginia Tech's Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management in association with the University Libraries' at Virginia Tech Open Education Initiative. Contributors
    Slide creation: Erin A. Hopkins
    Accessibility: Heather Blicher, Kindred Grey
    Figure design: Kindred Grey
    Project management: Anita Walz
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    Enabling Faculty Experiential Learning through Authoring Open Educational Resources
    Walz, Anita R.; Grey, Kindred; Hopkins, Erin A.; Orth, Donald J.; Neser, Laura (Virginia Tech, 2023-02-17)
    Virginia Tech faculty are increasingly engaging in creating, adapting, and sharing open educational resources, with 24 open textbooks or other substantive open educational resources published since program inception in 2016 (https://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer/grantees). Nationally, faculty exhibit motivation for engagement because of lack of relevant course materials, a desire for more control over the process, and cost reduction for students. This trend requires faculty attention to the complexities of writing for student learning rather than discipline-specific research formats, openness to learning new processes on publishing sharable, openly-licensed resources, and commitment to dedicating time on task. Throughout these processes, faculty expand their skill in time management and setting of reasonable writing goals, knowledge regarding copyright and Creative Commons licenses, development of accessibility features for readers with visual and/or print disabilities, assessment and incorporation of student and peer-reviewer requests, book publication processes, and attention to presentation and design elements that reinforce learning -- including figures, examples, self-assessment tools, learning objectives, and so on. Some faculty develop expertise in WordPress-based publishing software, such as Pressbooks. Others explore integration of non-traditional media such as podcasts, virtual reality, code-environments, embedded interactive graphs, and assessment tools such as gradebook-passback quizzing options. Such projects benefit from the expertise of a third-party project management team -- in our case from the University Libraries’ Open Education Initiative -- which has expertise with open educational resource publication processes, student and external peer-review management, software platform options, print-on-demand services, copyright and open licenses, and provides access to graphic design, copyediting, accessibility, and editorial services. Building on the process-related themes from a 2021 poster presented at CHEP, “Collaborating to Build, Adapt, and Evaluate Open Educational Resources (OER),” (http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101980) this moderated panel discussion explores faculty motivations for undertaking open educational resource creation and adaptation projects, preliminary impacts on students, impacts on the authors’ other work, changes in the way authors view their contributions to higher education, and success factors, both realized and unrealized. Interactive exercises throughout the session will engage audience members in reflecting and sharing realized or perceived success factors and challenges related to undertaking similar projects at their home institutions.
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    Sustainable Property Management
    Hopkins, Erin A. (Virginia Tech Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, 2023-05-05)

    Sustainable Property Management is a 150-page, peer-reviewed open textbook intended for students majoring in property management and real estate at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. It can be incorporated into an existing property management operations course or used for a stand-alone course focused on sustainable property management. Although sustainability, as used in the real estate context, is about preserving the environment, it is about more than that. In sustainable property management, sustainability encompasses three spheres—environmental, social, and economic. Sustainable property management is about reconciling these three spheres throughout the operations and maintenance phases of the building lifecycle in such a way that a balance is achieved between economic development and the protection of environmental and social resources. This textbook explains how ecologically sustainable concepts may be implemented throughout the property management operation functions while also considering the other spheres of sustainability. It also incorporates the theme of sustainable building practices as a human science as well as a building science by highlighting motivations and impacts to various stakeholders. The author draws on industry examples to illustrate these concepts and provides many experiential activities through which students can apply these concepts. Are you reviewing or adopting this book for a course?
    Please help us understand your use by filling out this form. How to access this book
    The main landing page for this book is https://doi.org/10.21061/sustainable_property_management. The open textbook is freely available online in multiple formats, including PDF, ePub, and Pressbooks.
    A softcover print version is available for order here. ISBNs
    ISBN (PDF): 978-1-957213-38-5
    ISBN (Pressbooks): 978-1-957213-40-8
    ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-957213-39-2
    ISBN (print - color): 978-1-957213-37-8
    Order a print copy Table of contents 1. Introduction to Sustainable Property Management 2. The Three Spheres of Sustainable Property Management 3. Stakeholder Motivations for Sustainable Property Management Practices 4. Sustainable Building Maintenance and Repair Practices 5. The Intersection of Sustainable Property Management and Risk Management 6. Integrating Sustainable Practices into Marketing and Leasing 7. Financial Evaluation of Sustainable Building Initiatives 8. Human Health Considerations Find, adapt, and share resources
    Customizable class slides for this book are available. Instructors are encouraged to share their relevant, original, and openly-licensed teaching resources via the instructor resource portal in OER Commons. About the author
    Erin A. Hopkins, PhD, serves as an Associate Professor of Property Management within the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech, where she teaches courses in property management operations and sustainability in the built environment. She has been awarded Virginia Tech’s Teacher of the Week and has received recognition in Virginia Tech’s “Thank a Teacher” program multiple times. She has twenty-three published journal articles and has served as an associate editor for the textbook Practical Apartment Management (7th ed.), Journal of Green Building, Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. She also serves on the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) Foundation’s Board of Directors and IREM’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Advisory Council. Funding and project support
    This project was funded in part by a VIVA Open Grant from VIVA, Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium. Development, editorial, graphic design, accessibility and publication assistance was provided by the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Suggested citation
    Hopkins, Erin A. (2023). Sustainable Property Management. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech Department of Apparel, Housing, and Resource Management. https://doi.org/10.21061/sustainable_property_management. Licensed with CC BY NC-SA 4.0. View errata
    Report an error     Accessibility
    Virginia Tech Publishing is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Pressbooks (HTML) and ePub versions of this text are tagged structurally and include alternative text, which allows for machine readability. Cover art: Danist Soh via Unsplash
    Illustration and cover design: Kindred Grey