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Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Education Resource Collection
(2023-11-02)

The Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Education Resource Collection contains resources for formal and non-formal agricultural educators working with middle school aged youth. Reference materials for facilitators introduce key concepts, youth-facing fact sheets present these concepts at a 6th grade level, and four hands-on activities integrate agriculture and cyberbiosecurity concepts. Cyberbiosecurity is an emerging field that focuses on creating security measures for digital aspects of our food and agriculture systems, creating a structure and opportunity for a safe food system that can meet the large needs of a growing population and world. The Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Education Resource Collection was developed through a project aimed at supporting formal and non-formal agricultural educators in integrating cyberbiosecurity topics and research-based strategies for engaging middle-school-aged girls in STEM into their educational programs. The project is an outreach effort of the Virginia Tech Center for Advanced Innovation in Agriculture and was supported, in part, by the CCI Southwest Virginia Node Cyberbiosecurity Seed Grant program and the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields (WAMS) Grants Program, award #2020-38503-31950. The open educational resources in this collection were developed through partnerships with scientists, middle school teachers, and Extension agents. Are you reviewing or adopting this collection for a course?
Please help us understand your use by filling out this form. How to access the collection
The main landing page for this collection is https://doi.org/10.21061/cyberbiosecurity. Published as open educational resources, all resources are provided in durable (PDF) and customizable (MS Word) formats. They are also hosted on the free, open-access, open educational resource repository called GoOpenVA in a unique resource collection, Ag Cybersecurity Virginia Tech, at https://goopenva.org/curated-collections/143. ISBN for Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Reference Guide
PDF: 978-1-957213-61-3 Included resources
1: Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Reference Guide, which includes background information on key topics in agricultural cyberbiosecurity (Fact Sheets), a glossary, and context for the overall project and contributors - Agricultural_Cyberbiosecurity_Reference_Guide.pdf
2: Fact Sheets, which cover nine topics (Big Data, Bioeconomy, Biomanufacturing, Biosecurity, Biotechnology, Cyberbiosecurity, Data Literacy, Precision Agriculture, Sensor) with separate facilitator and youth versions - Big_Data_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Bioeconomy_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Biomanufacturing_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Biosecurity_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Biotechnology_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Cyberbiosecurity_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Data_Literacy_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Precision_Agriculture_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Sensors_Fact_Sheet_Facilitator.pdf - Big_Data_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Bioeconomy_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Biomanufacturing_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Biosecurity_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Biotechnology_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Cyberbiosecurity_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Data_Literacy_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Precision_Agriculture_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf - Sensors_Fact_Sheet_Youth.pdf
3: Activities, which includes a Facilitator Guide and a Youth Activity Guide that address vulnerabilities in agricultural systems, traceability in hydroponic greens production, cybersecurity concerns with technologies commonly used in the livestock industry, and data quality in automation of food production. - Food_System_Vulnerabilities_Facilitator_Guide.pdf - Food_System_Vulnerabilities_Youth_Guide.pdf - Hydroponics_Facilitator_Guide.pdf - Hydroponics_Youth_Guide.pdf - Livestock_Tracking_Facilitator_Guide.pdf - Livestock_Tracking_Youth_Guide.pdf - Soil_Nutrient_Facilitator_Guide.pdf - Soil_Nutrient_Youth_Guide.pdf MS Word documents are available as an editable, customizable option for items 1-3. - Fact_Sheets_Facilitator_PDF_and_Customizable.zip - Activities_Facilitator_and_Youth_Guides_PDF_and_Customizable.zip - Editable_templates.zip Resources were developed for use with a middle school youth audience, can be used in formal or non-formal educational settings, and are aligned with Virginia Standards of Learning for science and computer science and Career and Technical Education Competencies for agricultural education. About the editors
David Smilnak
David is a Ph.D. student and graduate assistant at Virginia Tech. His work involves individual research towards his dissertation as well as writing papers, giving presentations, and coordinating groups of people for those projects. Generally, he's working with graduate students and faculty members at Virginia Tech, or agricultural professionals including teachers, Extension Agents, and farmers. He is working on a couple of projects, one of which is Initiating the Rural Cyberbiosecurity Workforce Pipeline Through Empowering Agricultural Educators and Supporting Middle School Girls. He enjoys the different types of people he gets to work with and occasionally he gets to go to a farm as well! Hannah H. Scherer
Hannah is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist at Virginia Tech. She is interested in how to make education more interesting and relevant to learners. In this role, she works with teachers, students, 4-H agents, and lots of other folks to try out new ideas for lessons and collect information to understand what works and what doesn’t. As part of this work, she was able to direct the Initiating the Rural Cyberbiosecurity Workforce Pipeline Through Empowering Agricultural Educators and Supporting Middle School Girls project and help make everything happen. Special thanks
This work is supported through the CCI Southwest Virginia Node Cyberbiosecurity Seed Grant program, the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fields (WAMS) Grants Program, award #2020-38503-31950, with design, publication assistance, and project management support from the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Suggested citation
Smilnak, David, and Hannah H. Scherer, eds. (2023). Agricultural Cyberbiosecurity Education Resource Collection. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21061/cyberbiosecurity. Licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Accessibility
Virginia Tech is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Please contact openeducation@vt.edu if you are a person with a disability and have suggestions to make these resources more accessible.
Class Slides for Fundamentals of Business fourth edition
Poff, Ron (2023)
Class slides for Fundamentals of Business, fourth edition (2023) are freely-available, screen-reader friendly, openly-licensed, and editable. The slides align with the freely-available open textbook, Fundamentals of Business, fourth edition, which was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business. The collection includes chapter-level .ppt slides for chapters 1 - 8 and 10. The remaining chapter slidedecks will be added as they become available. The open textbook, Fundamentals of Business, fourth edition, is freely available in PDF, ePub, Pressbooks, and other formats at https://doi.org/10.21061/fundamentalsofbusiness4e An online, interactive, accessible version of this book is available at: https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/fundamentalsofbusiness4e. About the license Unless otherwise noted, the book, slides, and contents therein are licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 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 http://bit.ly/business-interest 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/10919/105157 - 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. Errata and error reporting http://bit.ly/business-feedback 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. Contributors Slide creation: Ron Poff Accessibility: Heather Blicher Figure design: Kindred Grey Project management: Anita Walz
Class Slides for Strategic Management
Kennedy, Reed (2021)
Class slides for Strategic Management are freely-available, screen-reader friendly, openly-licensed, and editable. The slides align with the freely-available open textbook, Strategic Management, which is the required text for Virginia Tech's Pamplin College of Business undergraduate capstone course, MGT 4394 Strategic Management. The collection includes eleven chapter-level .ppt slides with questions and activities, and additional slide decks with exercises and cases. The open textbook, Strategic Management is freely available in PDF, ePub, Pressbooks, and other formats at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99282. About the license
Unless otherwise noted, the book, slides, and contents there in are licensed with a Creative Commons NonCommercial ShareAlike (CC BY NC SA) 3.0 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 3.0 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) 3.0 license - Include a link to the original slide deck source: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102735 - Include brief statement regarding whether or not changes were made - List the the name of the adapter. Find, adapt and share resources
Instructors are encouraged to share their versions via the Instructor Resource Portal in OER Commons. Errata and Error Reporting
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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 Pamplin College of Business in association with the University Libraries' at Virginia Tech Open Education Initiative. Contributors
Management Faculty, Pamplin College of Business
Reed Kennedy
Eli Jamison
Other esteemed, former faculty from the Department of Management
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Design and accessibility: Kylie Call
Figure design and editorial: Kindred Grey
Project Management: Anita Walz
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
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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
Fundamentals of Business, third edition
Skripak, Stephen J.; Poff, Ron (Pamplin College of Business in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020-07)
Please note that a 4th edition of the open textbook, Fundamentals of Business, was released in 2023: https://doi.org/10.21061/fundamentalsofbusiness4e.
Fundamentals of Business, third edition (2020) is an 370-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license. An online, interactive, accessible version of this book is available at: https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/fundamentalsofbusiness3e If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook, please help us understand your use by filling out this form. If you are an instructor seeking supplementary resources for teaching, please join the listserv for this book and the resource sharing portal. A testbank is now available by request for this book. The testbank is available to any instructor who has adopted Fundamentals of Business in their course. Permanent handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99283 (PDF, epub, and other versions)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/fundamentals-of-business3e (eBook-Pressbooks)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/fundamentals-of-business3e-vtechworks (PDF, epub, and other versions) ISBNs
ISBN (print - color): 9781949373356
ISBN (print - B&W): 9781949373349
ISBN (PDF): 9781949373882
ISBN (Pressbooks): 9781949373875
ISBN (epub): 9781949373363 Are you reviewing or adopting this book for a course?
Please help us understand your use by filling out this form. Errata and error reporting
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Report an error This work is published by Pamplin College of Business in association with Virginia Tech Publishing. Accessibility notice
Screen reader accessible versions of this text currently include ePub and Pressbooks versions. PDFs of the text do not currently have all available accessibility features enabled. What’s new?
The third edition improves upon the 2016 and 2018 editions.
Improvements include: - Data updates - Updated figures (graphics and images) modernized to new color palette and to include more representative images of people; - Updated content, especially to reflect changes in technology, law, and economics; - Updated examples to include companies more familiar to today’s students. A detailed list of changes by chapter is available in the version notes at the back of the book. Features of the book
Each chapter lists learning objectives at the beginning of the chapter and key takeaways at the end of the chapter. The Pressbooks version of this book also includes interactive self-quizzing. Editable files are available in HTML, Open Document, PressBooks XML, ePub, MOBI, and PDF. Selected graphics produced by Kindred Grey are available under a CC BY SA 4.0 license via WikimediaCommons. Table of contents
Chapter 1: Teamwork in Business vChapter 2: The Foundations of Business
Chapter 3: Economics and Business
Chapter 4: Ethics and Social Responsibility
Chapter 5: Business in a Global Environment
Chapter 6: Forms of Business Ownership
Chapter 7: Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business
Chapter 8: Management and Leadership
Chapter 9: Structuring Organizations
Chapter 10: Operations Management
Chapter 11: Motivating Employees
Chapter 12: Managing Human Resources
Chapter 13: Union/Management Issues
Chapter 14: Marketing: Providing Value to Customers
Chapter 15: Pricing Strategy
Chapter 16: Hospitality and Tourism
Chapter 17: Accounting and Financial Information
Chapter 18: Personal Finances Suggested citation
Skripak, Stephen J. and Poff, Ron (2020). Fundamentals of Business, 3rd Edition, Blacksburg, VA: VT Publishing. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99283. Licensed with CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0. About the author
About the previous author
Fundamentals of Business, 3rd edition is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. We wish to extend our gratitude to the original author for portions of their book which were remixed and adapted to form portions of Chapters 1-15 and 17-18 of Fundamentals of Business. If the publisher and author are both willing to allow us to provide attribution to the author while retaining use of the Creative Commons license and continuing to provide free public access, we will gladly and publicly thank the original author here. Stephen Skripak
Stephen J. Skripak is Professor of Practice in Management at Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech and former Associate Dean for Graduate Programs (2006-2014). He is a senior executive with 25 years of business leadership experience, including positions as General Manager and Chief Financial Officer with divisions of Fortune 500 companies. His background includes financial services, consumer packaged goods, apparel, and industrial companies, with emphasis in turnaround situations. Ron Poff
Ron Poff is Assistant Professor of Management Practice in the Management Department at Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, where he teaches management courses. He began his career as an enlisted member of the US Navy Reserves before entering his primary career in supply chain operations then sales and marketing, where he served in executive roles with large corporations for over 25 years. As an entrepreneur, he then founded his own marketing agency. His education includes a B.S. in Business Management, M.S. Marketing, and a Graduate Certificate in eMarketing. Contributors
Lead contributor: Ron Poff
Managing editor: Anita Walz
Reviewers/contributors: Lisa R. Fournier, Kindred Grey, Lauren Holt, Katie Manning, Sarah Mease, Michael Stamper, and Blake Warner
Past reviewers/contributors: Anastasia Cortes, Jonathan De Pena, Nina Lindsay, Richard Parsons, Sachi Soni, and Gary Walton
Digital and print production: Robert Browder
Cover design, figure design, and alternative text: Kindred Grey
Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education
Walz, Anita R.; Farley, Julee P. (2023-04-21)

Welcome to Making Open Educational Resources with and for PreK12: A Collaboration Toolkit for Higher Education. This toolkit is designed to address known gaps in knowledge and practice which limit the development of generative relationship-building processes between higher education faculty and PreK12 educators. Higher education and PreK12 are vastly different domains. Well-intended, collaborative relationships do not always result in hoped-for creation of useful and reusable learning materials for PreK12 classrooms, nor of effective partnerships. The main landing page for this book is https://doi.org/10.21061/OER_PreK12_highered. The toolkit is also available at https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/higheredk12collaborationtoolkit. Associated slides, handouts, and other downloadables are available at this site and other sites linked within the toolkit. A print version is available for order here. The toolkit is part of the Scholarly Communication Notebook and is intended to prepare and position practicing and future academic librarians and interested higher education faculty, staff, and students consulting with librarians to address gaps related to outreach to PreK12. It aims to expand use and re-usability of learning resources through informed practices regarding copyright, open-licensing, and accessibility. Designed for use in formal graduate-level library and information science courses and relevant for self-study by academic librarians already in practice, this toolkit includes videos, presentations, transcripts, activities, guides, assignments, and assessment tools for learning and delivery by librarians to faculty and students in higher education, and for use by interested instructional designers, other faculty, staff, and graduate students seeking to improve their service to PreK12 educators. Are you a professor or academic librarian reviewing or using this toolkit? We would love to hear from you. Please use the form at https://bit.ly/interest_hek12 to leave your feedback. Errata | Report an error
Original Études for the Developing Conductor
Caldwell, Jonathan; Shapiro, Derek (Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, 2023-04-28)

Original Études for the Developing Conductor is a collection of supplemental études designed to enhance contemporary conducting pedagogy by amplifying the voices of composers from historically excluded groups. Each étude was commissioned from and composed by a living composer, the majority of whom are woman-identifying composers and/or composers of color. Each étude also addresses multiple specific pedagogical goals common to all conducting classrooms. Conducting textbooks commonly include musical examples to expose student conductors to various musical challenges and situations. However, due to the relative ease of using only music from the public domain, most examples found in commercially published books are excerpts of larger works composed by deceased cisgender white men of European descent. Often, this music bears little relation to a significant portion of the music contemporary students engage with and perform. These excerpts also tend to be quite short (i.e., less than a minute) and do not create cohesive, self-contained musical arcs. Are you reviewing or adopting this book for a course?
Instructors adopting or reviewing this text are encouraged to record their use by filling out this form. This helps the book's sponsors to understand this open textbook's impact. This book was awarded Highly Commended for ALPSP's 2023 Impact Award.
2023 ALPSP Award Winners.
A video [4:56] introduction to the book is available at: https://youtu.be/xcbWwbXkYV4. How to access this book
The main landing page for this book is https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting. This text is available in multiple formats including: 1. High resolution PDF of scores and parts (linked on the left side of your screen) 2. Low resolution PDF of scores and parts (linked on the left side of your screen) 3. High resolution PDF of scores only (linked on the left side of your screen) 4. Low resolution PDF of scores only (linked on the left side of your screen) 5. A spiral-bound softcover print version (scores only). Click here to order a print copy. 6. MIDI realizations (MP4s) are available via a YouTube playlist or in the zip file (linked on the left side of your screen) 7. Files containing the score and parts for each étude (linked on the left side of your screen). These enable easy printing and use in apps for accessibility and annotation such as MuseScore. 8. A version with alt text embedded for each étude and part. [coming soon] ISBNs
ISBN (PDF - scores and parts): 978-1-957213-51-4
ISBN (PDF - scores only): 978-1-957213-52-1
ISBN (print - scores only): 978-1-957213-53-8
Click here to order a print copy Features of the book - The chart "Musical Opportunities by Étude" differentiates the études by tempo, style, meter, and potential pedagogical goals. - The PDF version of this book is designed to be easily navigable. Hyperlinks and QR codes are provided throughout the text to help you move from the Table of Contents into composer biographies, scores, parts, and from parts back to the Table of Contents, Score, or to the main landing page for the resource. - The clickable "Jump To" menu on each composer biography page and first page of every score links to the table of contents or transposed parts in C, B-Flat, F, E-Flat, and alto clef. Instead of scrolling, use the links found in the footers of each transposed part. - For print users, a spiral-bound, scores-only, print-on-demand version is available for order here. Book pages may also be self-printed. The table of contents has all the page numbers you need, and you can still use the QR codes, URLs, or the DOI at the bottom of every page to find your way back to the complete book. - MIDI realizations are provided for all études on this page, and via a YouTube playlist. - Each étude’s composer biography page includes the composer’s biography and photo, a link to the composer’s website, information regarding length, meter, tempo, and style of the etude, potential pedagogical goals, the composer’s description of the Étude, and an audio realization (linked to YouTube). - The text and images in the PDF versions of this text are tagged structurally and include alternative text, which allows for machine readability. The music in the PDF versions of this text is machine readable through outside tools such as MuseScore. Featured composers 1. Arias, Spencer: The Jester 2. Biedenbender, David: Swirl 3. Botti, Susan: Vespers (Walking in Beauty) 4. Bozone, Judy: Lyrah 5. Browne, Matthew: Saunter 6. Browne, Matthew: Tarantella 7. Bumgarner, Trevor: Choppy Frontier 8. Chen, Yi: Ban (Beat) 9. Davids, Brent Michael: Native American Étude 10. Flagello, Gala: Bulletproof 11. Grafe, Max: Fanfare With Afterimages 12. Herryman Rodriguez, Ivette: Tumbao Pesante 13. Jolley, Jennifer: Legend of the Moonlight Above 14. Joyce, Molly: Offbeat 15. Lamb, Alexis: Addolcimento (Sweetly, Softening) 16. Lambrecht, Lynnsey: Festive Fugue 17. Li, Shuying: Étude for Conductors 18. Lorenz, Ricardo: Estudio a Cuatro Voces 19. McCune, Sally Lamb: Pony Hollow Trail 20. Purrington, Hilary: Keepsake 21. Rowe, Will: Loose Canon 22. Sherwood-Gabrielson, Christopher: Last Waltz in Paris 23. Specht, Elena: Fortress 24. Tann, Hilary: Moonrise 25. Zare, Roger: Reverie About the editors
Jonathan Caldwell, Lead Editor
Jonathan Caldwell is the director of bands and assistant professor of conducting at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting. Prior to his appointment at UNCG, Caldwell held positions at Virginia Tech, the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and Garner Magnet High School (Garner, NC). His writing has been published in the Journal of Band Research and the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series. He has given presentations for the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the College Band Directors National Association, the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik (IGEB), and at music educator conferences in North Carolina and Virginia. Derek Shapiro, Lead Editor
Derek Shapiro is the director of bands and assistant professor of music at Virginia Tech, where he conducts the Virginia Tech Wind Ensemble and teaches conducting. Prior to his appointment at Virginia Tech, he held positions at Eastern Michigan University, Georgia Southern University, and Cypress Creek High School. A strong advocate for music education with nine years of public school experience, Shapiro has taught at the middle school and high school levels. He has been published in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series and has presented at clinics in Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, and Virginia. Suggested citation
Caldwell, Jonathan and Shapiro, Derek (2023). Original Études for the Developing Conductor. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech School of Performing Arts. https://doi.org/10.21061/conducting. Licensed with CC BY NC-SA 4.0. Report an error
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Virginia Tech is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The Open Education Initiative is committed to continuous improvement regarding accessibility. The text, images, and links in the PDF versions of this text are tagged structurally and include alternative text, which allows for machine readability. Links to external websites are provided as QR codes. Audio recordings of each score are available as MIDI realizations via YouTube. Alternative text for scores and parts is scheduled to be available in late 2023. Please contact openeducation@vt.edu if you are a person with a disability and have suggestions to make this book more accessible. Special thanks
This project was made possible in part by financial support from the University Libraries at Virginia Tech Collaborative Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro University Libraries’ Textbook Affordability Program (TAP) Grants, and additional funding, technical, and publishing support from the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech. Disclaimer
This work may contain components (e.g., composer headshots) not covered by the CC BY NC-SA license. Every effort has been made to clearly identify these components but ultimately it is your responsibility to independently evaluate the copyright status of any work or component part of a work you use in light of your intended use.
Problem Sets for Aerospace Structures
Patil, Mayuresh J. (2021-07)

This collection of interactive problems and solutions includes over twenty-five collections of 3-5 problems each on topics relevant to undergraduate-level aerospace structures such as: load factors, strain, stress, stress transformation and principal stresses, material properties, composites, equations of equilibrium, Airy stress function, thermoelasticity, failure theories, elastic-plastic analysis, fracture, beam bending, principal of minimum total potential energy, finite element method for beams, plate bending, buckling, structural dynamics, and aeroelasticity. Purpose
The problem sets were developed to help faculty provide regular formative assessments to the students without any corresponding grading burden (for the faculty or TA). The assessments can be given twice a week in a typical class and can help the students get feedback on a regular basis. Problem sets supplement the open textbook, Aerospace Structures by Eric Raymond Johnson (2022) https://doi.org/10.21061/AerospaceStructures. Author and license information
The problem sets were developed by Mayuresh Patil, former Associate Department Chair, Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Oceanic Engineering at Virginia Tech, and currently Professor of Practice at Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. Problem sets are ©2021 Mayuresh Patil and released under a Creative Commons NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY NC-SA) license. License terms are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0. Suggested citation
Patil, Mayuresh. (2021) Problem Sets for Aerospace Structures. CC BY-NC-SA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104169. Technical notes regarding use of the problem sets
Each of the 25+ problem sets were built in Canvas “legacy quizzes” and exported into the IMS QTI 1.2 format. Open access to the problem sets - Problem sets are available for free public view in Canvas Commons. View the list of direct links provided below, download the file titled "Problem_set_URLs_for_Canvas_Commons.txt (2.863Kb)" from this page, or search for “Aerospace Structures” at https://lor.instructure.com. A Canvas account is not required to view items designated as “public” in Canvas Commons. - Users logged into a Canvas account may import these directly to an existing course or download them in IMS QTI 1.2 format for use in a different IMS QTI compatible system such as Blackboard, D2L, or other IMS QTI-compliant systems. - Users without a Canvas account have the option to create a free canvas account at: https://canvas.instructure.com/register_from_website, which will allow them to export / download them. - IMS QTI 1.2 formatted downloads of problem sets are also available as Zip files without a login on the left side of this page. They were exported using open source 7zip software. Please note that we are unable to provide additional file types, support for uploading, or assistance with reformatting files. Please contact your local learning management system (LMS) manager for additional support. Help us!
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This project was made possible in part by funding of the Virtual Library of Virginia and assistance from the Open Education Initiative of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
Author: Mayuresh Patil
Project Manager: Anita Walz Direct links to problem sets in the Canvas Commons system - Airy Stress Function (Part I) https://lor.instructure.com/resources/bc7f1eac158e4ec69d8542348492cbe7?shared - Airy Stress Function (Part II): https://lor.instructure.com/resources/cadcd3b91117444a8539e6068fae4860?shared - Beam Buckling: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/dbd9e74cbe4c474483aed9ba3d46cebd?shared - Beam Buckling using PMTPE: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/09051d82e6f145d292d43f2192a08dce?shared - Buckling (Discrete Systems): https://lor.instructure.com/resources/1f444c42b32c40899ebbf183cc43ad80?shared - Beam Analysis using PMTPE: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/d1cc9160c39b48f493a59c6104d5d33a?shared - Composites: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/4b776606c2e9494f8464b775815878c3?shared - Constitutive Law: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/e55059203a5d45f29a9f1468f1a48b9d?shared - Elastic-Plastic Analysis: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/7b7f2fcf64bd44d880695ee33bda08fd?shared - Equilibrium: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/52995ce999ad4894b8e2b312bba7bfc6?shared - Failure Theories: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/007a7ae0772644e387f2473ba5a1ed46?shared - Fracture: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/f7c46457a70e4a21a2b5b3bf819fc804?shared - Load Factors: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/b1d1974fe78c46ba8f4c5c6c733a1737?shared - Material Properties: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/75def72391b945c3bce8c73a5eb6c052?shared - Plate Bending: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/285f2faccc8a4ce5a45d2256e8106066?shared - Plate Buckling using PMTPE: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/49937783dff542e1b4dc80fa979a4d87?shared - PMTPE (Discrete Systems): https://lor.instructure.com/resources/3b9e350fa6004c18aa2568b16caddfc8?shared - Strain: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/934505d71f124d249067be1f5b7eb753?shared - Stress: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/90190ea55ae641459661c1f199549948?shared - Thermoelasticity: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/d0a90b895c2545768b3df07c0210ffea?shared - V-n diagram: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/32617ae1ff3344258354b4385693f4aa?shared - Plate Buckling: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/1264f807f84f44808e03e00be51e5c49?shared - Plate with a Hole: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/672eca566a814e16b052757004f68963?shared - Polar Coordinates: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/2b20db974faa44309430866eae247a9e?shared - Principle/Maximum Stresses: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/df7c8e088ccb4a9991753f87b15c99ff?shared - Stress/Strain Transformation: https://lor.instructure.com/resources/4a11d3349e8e4443b607915656279cd3?shared
Strategic Management
Kennedy, Reed; Jamison, Eli; Simpson, Joseph; Kumar, Pankaj; Kemp, Ayenda; Awate, Kiran; Manning, Kathleen (Pamplin College of Business in association with Virginia Tech Publishing, 2020-08)

Strategic Management (2020) is a 343-page open educational resource designed as an introduction to the key topics and themes of strategic management. The open textbook is intended for a senior capstone course in an undergraduate business program and suitable for a wide range of undergraduate business students including those majoring in marketing, management, business administration, accounting, finance, real estate, business information technology, and hospitality and tourism. The text presents examples of familiar companies and personalities to illustrate the different strategies used by today’s firms and how they go about implementing those strategies. It includes case studies, end of section key takeaways, exercises, and links to external videos, and an end-of-book glossary. The text is ideal for courses which focus on how organizations operate at the strategic level to be successful. Students will learn how to conduct case analyses, measure organizational performance, and conduct external and internal analyses. If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook, please help us understand your use by filling out this form http://bit.ly/strategy-interest. How to access this book
This text is available in multiple formats including PDF, a low-resolution PDF which is faster to download, Open Document Format (ODT), and ePub found on the left side of your screen. It is also available online in Pressbooks at https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/strategicmanagement. Softcover print versions are available at the manufacturer's lowest price in color interior or black & white interior. The main landing page for this book is: https://doi.org/10.21061/strategicmanagement. Attribution
This textbook was adapted for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business capstone course, MGT 4394 Strategic Management, and is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 3.0 license. It is adapted without attribution to the original 2010 author or publisher at their request. It is adapted from Mastering Strategic Management which was published by the University of Minnesota Publishing in 2015 as an adaptation of the 2010 version. University of Minnesota Publishing reformatted the original text, and replaced some images and figures to make the resulting whole more shareable but did not otherwise significantly alter or update the original 2010 text. Instructor ancillaries
Powerpoint slides are available at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102735. A test bank only for instructors is also available at http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104179. Find, adapt and share resources
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Chapter 1: Mastering Strategy: Art and Science
Chapter 2: Assessing Organizational Performance
Chapter 3: Evaluating the External Environment
Chapter 4: Evaluating the Internal Environment
Chapter 5: Synthesis of Strategic Issues and Analysis
Chapter 6: Selecting Business-Level Strategies
Chapter 7: Innovation Strategies
Chapter 8: Selecting Corporate-Level Strategies
Chapter 9: Competing in International Markets
Chapter 10: Executing Strategy through Organizational Design
Chapter 11: Leading an Ethical Organization: Corporate Governance, Corporate Ethics, and Social Responsibility
About the Author / Editorial and Production Teams
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Glossary This work is published by Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business in association with Virginia Tech Publishing. Suggested citation
Kennedy, Reed. (2020) Strategic Management. Blacksburg, VA: Virginia Tech Publishing. https://doi.org/10.21061/strategicmanagement CC BY NC-SA 3.0 Contributors
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The publisher of the 2010 version of this book requested that they and the original author not receive attribution.
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Primary contributor: Reed B. Kennedy
Reviewers / contributors: Eli Jamison, Joseph Simpson, Pankaj Kumar, Ayenda Kemp, Kiran Awate, and Kathleen Manning
Cover design, illustration, and alternative text; student reviewer: Kindred Grey
Research and editorial assistant; student reviewer: Kathleen Manning
Managing editor: Anita Walz
Production editor: Robert Browder
Copyeditors: Grace Baggett, Lauren Holt DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/strategicmanagement
ISBN 978-1-949373-94-3 (print-color)
ISBN 978-1-949373-89-9 (print-black & white)
ISBN 978-1-949373-96-7 (ebook-PDF)
ISBN 978-1-949373-95-0 (ebook-Pressbooks) https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/strategicmanagement Accessibility
Virginia Tech Publishing is committed to making its publications accessible in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. The HTML and screen reader–friendly PDF versions of this book utilize header structures and include alternative text which allow for machine-readability.
Supplementary Teaching Materials for Fish, Fishing, and Conservation
Orth, Donald J. (2023-06)

These supplementary teaching resources align to the open textbook, Fish, Fishing, and Conservation which is a 389-page, peer-reviewed publicly-available, openly-licensed textbook intended for undergraduate students who are exploring majors in Fish & Wildlife. It is also relevant to a general audience or for use in courses which explore social and ethical aspects of fish, fishing and conservation. The open textbook, Fish, Fishing, and Conservation, is freely available at https://doi.org/10.21061/fishandconservation. Supplementary teaching resources include a sample course syllabus, schedule, and a variety of assignments. Individuals who wish to share their materials relevant to teaching in this subject area are encouraged to join and share their openly-licensed resources via the Fish, Fishing, and Conservation instructor group in OER Commons. Are you reviewing or adopting Fish, Fishing, and Conservation for a course?
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