Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to collection information

Connexions

You are here: Home » Content » Appendix Materials for a Connexions Collection used as a College Course » Preface

Navigation

Lenses

What is a lens?

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

This content is ...

Affiliated with (What does "Affiliated with" mean?)

This content is either by members of the organizations listed or about topics related to the organizations listed. Click each link to see a list of all content affiliated with the organization.
  • Houston Community College display tagshide tags

    This collection is included in aLens by: Houston Community College

    Comments:

    "6th Item in a series of Connexions training"

    Click the "Houston Community College" link to see all content affiliated with them.

    Click the tag icon tag icon to display tags associated with this content.

Also in these lenses

  • Busbee's Connexions Training

    This collection is included inLens: Busbee's Connexions Training Lens
    By: Kenneth Leroy Busbee

    Comments:

    "6th Item"

    Click the "Busbee's Connexions Training" link to see all content selected in this lens.

Recently Viewed

This feature requires Javascript to be enabled.

Tags

(What is a tag?)

These tags come from the endorsement, affiliation, and other lenses that include this content.
 

Preface

Module by: Kenneth Leroy Busbee. E-mail the author

Summary: This module introduces the "Appendix Materials for a Connexions Collection used as a College Course" a Connexions collection by Kenneth Leroy Busbee.

About this Collection

Appendix Materials for a Connexions Collection used as a College Course

Appendix Materials for a Connexions Collection used as a College Course is written by Kenneth Leroy Busbee, a faculty member at Houston Community College in Houston, Texas. The materials used in this collection were developed by the author for publication within the Connexions environment for the support of open courseware.

Collection Contents

The collection contents were initially written in support of a computer science course taught via distance education. However, they are sufficiently universal to be valuable to all students who use computers within any college course. This includes students taking non-computer science courses and any students in a course using a learning management system (like Blackboard). Additionally, the modules dealing with "study habits" are valuable to all students in all college courses. The collection consists for four modules:

  • Show Hide File Extensions
  • Academic or Scholastic Dishonesty
  • Successful Study Habits
  • Study Habits that Build the Brain

An Internet link to either the entire collection or to individual modules is an easy way for any professor to make this material available to their students. Counseling departments may also refer students that need help with their "study habits" to the materials.

About Connexions

Connexions Modular Content

Connexions http://cnx.org is an online, open access educational resource dedicated to providing high quality learning materials free online, free in printable PDF format, and at low cost in bound volumes through print-on-demand publishing. This collection is one of many collections available to Connexions users. Each collection is composed of a number of re-usable learning modules written in the Connexions XML markup language. Each module may also be re-used (or 're-purposed') as part of other collections and may be used outside of Connexions.

Re-use and Customization

The Creative Commons (CC) Attribution license applies to all Connexions modules. Under this license, any Connexions module may be used or modified for any purpose as long as proper attribution to the original author(s) is maintained. Connexions' authoring tools make re-use (or re-purposing) easy. Therefore, instructors anywhere are permitted to create customized versions of this textbook by editing modules, deleting unneeded modules, and adding their own supplementary modules. Connexions' authoring tools keep track of these changes and maintain the CC license's required attribution to the original authors. This process creates a new collection that can be viewed online, downloaded as a single PDF file, or ordered in any quantity by instructors and students as a low-cost printed textbook.

Read the book online, print the PDF, or buy a copy of the book.

To browse this collection online, visit the collection home page. You will then have three options.

  1. You may view the collection modules on-line by clicking on the "Start >>" link, which takes you to the first module in the collection. You can then navigate to the next module using "NEXT >>" and through the subsequent modules by using the "<< PREVIOUS | NEXT >>" button that is towards the upper right to move forward and backward in the collection. You can jump to any module in the collection by clicking on that module's title in the "TABLE OF CONTENTS" box on the left side of the window. If these contents are hidden, make them visible by clicking on the small triangle to the right of the "TABLE OF CONTENTS". Chapters also have a small triangle to show or hide contents.
  2. You may obtain a PDF of the entire textbook to print or view offline by clicking on the "Download PDF" link in the "Content Actions" box.
  3. You may order a bound copy of the collection (for a reasonable printing and shipping fee) by clicking on the "Order printed copy" button.

Collection Navigation

Content actions

Download:

Collection as:

PDF | EPUB (?)

What is an EPUB file?

EPUB is an electronic book format that can be read on a variety of mobile devices.

Downloading to a reading device

For detailed instructions on how to download this content's EPUB to your specific device, click the "(?)" link.

| More downloads ...

Module as:

PDF | EPUB (?)

What is an EPUB file?

EPUB is an electronic book format that can be read on a variety of mobile devices.

Downloading to a reading device

For detailed instructions on how to download this content's EPUB to your specific device, click the "(?)" link.

| More downloads ...

Add:

Collection to:

My Favorites (?)

'My Favorites' is a special kind of lens which you can use to bookmark modules and collections. 'My Favorites' can only be seen by you, and collections saved in 'My Favorites' can remember the last module you were on. You need an account to use 'My Favorites'.

| A lens I own (?)

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

| External bookmarks

Module to:

My Favorites (?)

'My Favorites' is a special kind of lens which you can use to bookmark modules and collections. 'My Favorites' can only be seen by you, and collections saved in 'My Favorites' can remember the last module you were on. You need an account to use 'My Favorites'.

| A lens I own (?)

Definition of a lens

Lenses

A lens is a custom view of the content in the repository. You can think of it as a fancy kind of list that will let you see content through the eyes of organizations and people you trust.

What is in a lens?

Lens makers point to materials (modules and collections), creating a guide that includes their own comments and descriptive tags about the content.

Who can create a lens?

Any individual member, a community, or a respected organization.

What are tags? tag icon

Tags are descriptors added by lens makers to help label content, attaching a vocabulary that is meaningful in the context of the lens.

| External bookmarks