20240916 Welcome, my Japanese friends!

 

To Dr.  Fukushima and Dr. Nagano

I organized information I shared on that day (2024-09-16).

 

Here is about One Dollar --> I-Yuan Chiang   (in English):

The page is about my teaching (mainly in Mandarin, and some are in English)

All my teaching has been live-streamed and on the YouTube playlist and videos   (in Mandarin, and some are in English)

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 Translation tools (on computers and cell phones) for open textbook

 

For Chrome on computer (link)

 

For Android cellphone    沉浸式翻譯 APP

For iPhone   沉浸式翻譯瀏覽器

For Safari on MacOS 沉浸式翻譯Safari擴充

 ---- I believe there are similar  apps in Japanese

For example, an open textbook website

https://commons.libretexts.org/book/socialsci-7560

and after translating

Another example

https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Chabot_College/Introduction_to_Nutrition_Science/07%3A_Vitamins

There are some translation databases available. I found that the google translate gave me 90% or more correctness on chemistry and organic chemistry.  Thus, last year, I used open textbook in chemistry courses. 

 

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Famous open textbook library  (Personally, I called them top 4 open textbook collection based on my experiences on searching open textbooks. Not a formal name)

(listed alphabetically)

1.  BC campus, Canada:  Looking for an Open Textbook?

(Most are for college) 

https://collection.bccampus.ca/search/?q=sociology  --- 9 results

https://collection.bccampus.ca/search/?q=nutrition   --- 14 results 

 

 2. Libretexts, University of California, Davis

(Most are for college, and some are for k-12)

https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=sociology    --- 16 results
https://commons.libretexts.org/?search=nutrition   --- 48 results

In Fall 2023-Chemistry, and Fall 2023-Organic Chemistry, I used books from Libretexts.org  

 

3. Open Textbook Library, University of Minnesota

(Most are for college)

One Dollar has two open textbooks being cataloged in this library (By the end of 2024, we will publish two more open textbook--one will be newly created and the other is a translation)

Comparisons of the Codex Alimentarius Principles of Nutrition Labelling and Relevant Guidelines of Taiwan and the United States 

Understanding the “General Principles of Food Hygiene” (including GHP and HACCP) published in 2020 by Codex Alimentarius, and its applications on food industry and catering in Taiwan

 

 4.  OpenStax, Rice University

(Most are for college, and some are for k-12)

 https://openstax.org/subjects/social-sciences#Sociology

 https://openstax.org/subjects/nursing#Nutrition%20and%20Pharmacology

 

The reason why we need to use open textbooks?

One Dollar gives some main reasons:

1. For students: They can get books with high quality and free of charge.

2. For One Dollar: I can use them while make the teaching videos/live-streaming to the public (less restrictions from copy right laws)

3. I can translate them, annotate them, and modify them (without the permission in advance). 

  Here are some useful articles

 Empowering digital learning with open textbooks (Educ Technol Res Dev. 2021; 69(1): 393–396.)

 

Why you should start using open educational resources in your teaching   

 

Besides reading open textbooks from others, can we edit/create/translate by ourselves?

 One Dollar has published two open textbooks.

 Q. Why should I use or create open textbooks? (Western Sydney University)

Why there are not too many people know about the open textbook?

 ONE DOLLAR--DOES--NOT--KNOW---   

I do not know why so many scholar yet to know and yet to use open textbook.

 Open Textbook Permissions and What are Open Textbooks?--BC Campus, Canada

 Open textbooks are a subset of open educational resources (OER) and reside in the public domain — where copyrights have been waived by the copyright holder or copyright has expired — or have been released by the copyright holder under an open-copyright licence.

Open textbooks are available digitally, accessed online or through shareable formats, to be freely used by anyone: students, instructors, librarians, and members of the public. In general, they can be modified, printed, shared, retained, remixed, and reused.

 Frequently Asked Questions--Open Textbook Library, University of Minnesota

Do I need permission to use an open textbook?

Authors and publishers give you permission to use an open textbook by giving it an open license.

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Dr. Nagano may be interested in those posters a bout nutrition (we have cited some information from Japan)

2023-11  Developing School Lunch Nutrition Standard from DRIs: Investigation of Establishing School Lunch Nutrition Standards of Japan, Taiwan, and the United States (link)

2023-11 Study on the School Lunch Programs and the Consequences of Student’s Weight and Height (link)

2022-11  Characters of Dietary Guidelines and Plates from Some Countries (link)

2022-11 Comparison of NRVs/DRVs/DRIs and Important Nutrients from Some Countries (link)