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Pathways
Pathways to Connection
Author(s): Robin Higgins
Licence: Public Domain
Year: 2025
Description: “What a resourceful guide for making and maintaining human connections! Through detailed lesson plans, case studies, articles, links to resources and on-line adaptations, Robin Higgins shares her approach to exploring personal and cultural identity, mental health, wellbeing, and resilience. Having been part of some of these projects, I am impressed by her unique approach to engaging diverse groups of participants to create a powerful learning environment, so that both participants and facilitators return to her for more courses and projects, inspired to explore new territories in their social emotional learning.” – Dr. Diana Pauna
Formats: Pressbooks webbook,
Pre-health Science Pathways to Success
Author(s): Tara Lawrence, Wayne Miller
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: This resource will be used to identify the recommended skill set for health science programs and overall foundational skills for health science and other science related programs. A process for identifying goals and outlining a pathway for success to meet those goals will be explored. Students may also use this resource to identify a career path based on program fit, build a pathway for success to a career in health sciences or apply these foundational skills to an alternate determined pathway.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 44 H5P activities
Pathways to Success
Author(s): Lin Brander, Kimberly Carter, Joyce Lee, Tara Mollett, Lauren Oleksewich
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2021
Description: At BCIT we are excited to see growing numbers of Indigenous students enter our trades programs and move on to prosperous careers in the trades. We know that the journey to success is not always easy and that Indigenous graduates can face many barriers including cultural misunderstanding and even discrimination or racism in the workplace.
In the spirit of reconciliation and through recognizing that many Indigenous students are disadvantaged and experience barriers to employment and wellness that others do not, the intention of these modules is to support Indigenous trades students in their journey from the classroom and into the workplace. These modules are designed to encourage wellness and instill confidence by focusing on skills and activities that promote success both in life and in the workplace.
We recognize the diversity among Indigenous communities in Canada and encourage you to adapt this guide in order to make it relevant to your community. The lessons in this guide can be broken up into several shorter learning experiences and can be easily adapted to presentation slides.
The Action Planning Tool in Appendix A can be completed by students as they work through the modules. Activities related to the Action Planning Tool appear in blue boxes throughout this resource and are marked Action Plan Activity and numbered to correspond to the numbers in the Action Planning Tool. This planning is intended to give students an opportunity to design a clearly thought-out career and wellness plan that they can reference as they enter the workforce or go through career transition.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI
Includes: 6 H5P activities
Pathways to College Success
Author(s): CWI 101 Leaders
Editor(s): CWI 101 Leaders
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2025
Description: This open educational resource has been developed for use in a “first year experience” course at the College of Western Idaho (CWI 101). Our textbook remixes preexisting sources to fit a career pathways model of course learning. The purpose of a career pathways model is to provide a space for students to hone basic student success skills within the context of career exploration. Students who attend our college expect their education to be closely linked to their career goals and the career pathways model ensures that happens. We believe our model will foster more success for more students.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 1 H5P activities
Fanshawe Pre-Health Sciences Mathematics 1
Author(s): Domenic Spilotro, MSc
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2022
Description: This textbook was created for the Pre-Health Sciences Pathway to Advanced Diplomas and Degrees program (PHS) program first term mathematics course. It is largely an adaptation of Elementary Algebra 2e by OpenStax
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 47 H5P activities
Fanshawe Pre-Health Sciences Mathematics 2
Author(s): Domenic Spilotro, MSc
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: This textbook was created for the Pre-Health Sciences Pathway to Advanced Diplomas and Degrees program (PHS) program second term mathematics course. The first textbook is Fanshawe Pre-Health Sciences Mathematics 1. This book is an adaptation of Intermediate Algebra 2e by Open Stax
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 42 H5P activities
Find, Customize, and Share
Author(s): Amber Hoye, Kelly Arispe
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: Dive into a rich repository of more than 900 customizable activities tailored for the preK-16 second language classroom. In this interactive guide by Pathways Project co-directors, Amber Hoye, M.E.T. and Kelly Arispe, Ph.D, you’ll develop your ability to find, customize, and share open educational resources (OER). This guide empowers teachers like you to adapt activities to suit your unique classroom needs, while infusing them with real-world materials. Upon completion, you’ll have an engaging and intercultural activity and the opportunity to contribute to the Pathways Project community by sharing back.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 45 H5P activities
Open ELA
Author(s): Alexander Greengaard
Licence: Public Domain
Year: 2024
Description: Open ELA is a complete course in Reading and Language Arts for instructors and self-directed learners in Adult Basic Education settings. These materials are designed to aid students in completing the GED exam and to support college and career pathways.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB
College Success
Author(s): [Authors removed at request of original publisher]
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2024
Description: College Success is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by Tacoma Community College. For questions about this textbook please contact oer@tacomacc.edu
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Empowering Unique Learners for College Success
Author(s): Robin Frkovic, MEd., BSc
Editor(s): Andrew Stracuzzi
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Description: This text provides a variety of teaching resources to address unique student learning styles for post-secondary education. This resource focuses on the identification and development of soft skills that that are essential for independence and success in college and in life. Topics include teaching organizational, resiliency, reflection, and group-work skills. This resource is developed with adaptability in mind; it offers instructors teaching strategies with varying levels of content and assessments to meet each student’s unique learning needs.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Includes: 41 H5P activities
College Success
Author(s): University Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2015
Description: College Success is adapted from a work produced by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, Pressbooks XML
Includes: 1 H5P activities
College Success for Newcomers
Author(s): Rebecca Hiebert, Emilie Jackson
Editor(s): Ebony Novakowski, Jocelyne Olson, Ginger Arnold
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: Rebecca Molly Hiebert and Emilie Jackson from the Academic Success Centre were awarded a grant from Campus Manitoba in Spring 2022 to create an Open Educational Resource (OER) focused on supporting newcomers in their transition to the college setting. The OER will be an excellent resource for programs to share with new students during their program orientation, for instructors to share with students during coursework, and for student support staff to share with students to help them succeed. The OER covers topics such as Indigenous peoples and Truth and Reconciliation, anti-racism, gender and sexual diversity, and neurodiversity to provide students with information about diverse experiences. It covers topics including goal setting, time management, taking initiative, and academic integrity to prepare students with the study skills needed to succeed in the college setting. It also covers content on communication, note taking, test taking, memory, and group work skills to prepare students for communicating and succeeding academically in the North American college context. The OER contains reflection and H5P interactive activities, as well as images, graphics, and examples.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Includes: 61 H5P activities
College Success
Author(s): Amy Baldwin, University of Central Arkansas
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2020
Description:
College Success is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY) license, which means that you can distribute, remix, and build upon the content, as long as you provide attribution to OpenStax and its content contributors.
Because our books are openly licensed, you are free to use the entire book or pick and choose the sections that are most relevant to the needs of your course. Feel free to remix the content by assigning your students certain chapters and sections in your syllabus, in the order that you prefer. You can even provide a direct link in your syllabus to the sections in the web view of your book.
Instructors also have the option of creating a customized version of their OpenStax book. The custom version can be made available to students in low-cost print or digital form through their campus bookstore. Visit the Instructor Resources section of your book page on openstax.org for more information.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook,
Harper First Year Seminar: A Guide to College Success
Author(s): Annie Liotine, Bobby Summers, Chris Candelas, Elizabeth Ward, Jenyl Keeton, Jen Lau-Bond, Katye Speer, Megan Dallianis, Robert Allare, Stephanie Whalen, Dawn McKinley
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: There are so many moves to consider when you start college, whether you are a first time college student right out of high school or you have had some other experiences and are returning to school. Most colleges and universities offer a college success course to help students transition to college and increase the number who stay and complete their educational goals. At Harper College, a team of faculty, advisors, staff, and administrators works to offer a quality First Year Seminar to ensure that all Harper students like yourself have the opportunity to learn information and strategies needed to have a successful start to college and are equipped to utilize resources the campus offers when challenges arise. For over more than a decade, our team at Harper has been developing the curriculum and resources that you will experience in the First Year Seminar in an effort to provide you with an overview of everything you need to get off to a great start.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 1 H5P activities
College Success Strategies
Author(s): Rosie Carbajal-Romo
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2025
Description: College Success Strategies by Rosie-Carbajal-Romo is adapted from College Success by Baldwin, et al. OpenStax (CC BY 4.0), Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies by Dave Dillon (CC BY 4.0), and University 101: Study, Strategize, and Succeed by Kwantlen Polytechnic University Learning Centres (CC BY SA 4.0).
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
College Success Skills
Author(s): vancej
Editor(s): Jason Vance
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2024
Description: SDV 100: College Success Skills provides resources for first-year college students on the path to academic and life success. Time management, effective methods of communication, career exploration, and practical tools for academic achievement are a few of the topic areas covered.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Strategies for First Year College Success
Author(s): OpenStax
Editor(s): Heather Blicher, Danielle Leek
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2022
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 23 H5P activities
Blueprint for Success in College and Career
Author(s): Dave Dillon
Editor(s): Linnea Spitzer, Norma Cárdenas
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2022
Description: Blueprint for Success in College and Career is a remix of four previously existing OER (Open Educational Resources): A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students by Alise Lamoreaux, How to Learn Like a Pro! by Phyllis Nissila, Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom, edited by Thomas Priester, College Success, provided by Lumen Learning, and one previously copyrighted textbook with content that is now openly licensed: Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies by Dave Dillon. This book is a revised edition of Dave Dillon’s award-winning, openly licensed textbook, Blueprint for Success in College and Career, a students’ guide for classroom and career success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation focuses on study skills, time management, career exploration, health, and financial literacy.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, XHTML, WordPress XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links), Common Cartridge (LTI Links)
Blueprint for Success in College: Career Decision Making
Author(s): Dave Dillon
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2019
Description: A college students’ guide for career success, this free Open Educational Resource text focuses on major identification and career exploration.
The Blueprint for Success series comprises three books for the College Success and FYE (First-Year Experience) genre. The central text, Blueprint for Success in College and Career, is designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation. In addition, targeted sections on Study Skills and Time Management, and Career and Decision Making are available separately as Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies, and Blueprint for Success in Career Decision Making.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies
Author(s): Dave Dillon
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2019
Description: A free, Open Educational Resource, Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies is a students’ guide for classroom success. This text, designed to show how to be successful in college focuses on study skills and time management.
The Blueprint for Success series comprises three books for the College Success and FYE (First-Year Experience) genre. The central text, Blueprint for Success in College and Career, is designed to show how to be successful in college and in career preparation. In addition, targeted sections on Study Skills and Time Management, and Career and Decision Making are available separately as Blueprint for Success in College: Indispensable Study Skills and Time Management Strategies, and Blueprint for Success in Career Decision Making.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, EPUB3, PDF, Pressbooks XML, XHTML, WordPress XML
University Success
Author(s): N. Mahoney, B. Klassen &, M. D’Eon and Mahoney, N., Klassen, B., &, D’Eon, M.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2016
Description: Our primary goal in writing University Success is to help you succeed in university. This is a how-to-manual for your first year of study.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
University Success (2nd Edition)
Author(s): N. Mahoney, B. Klassen, M. D’Eon, & L. Marken, Mahoney, N., Klassen, B., D’Eon, M., Marken, L., N. Mahoney, B. Klassen, M. D’Eon, & L. Marken, Mahoney, N., Klassen, B., D’Eon, M., Marken, L.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2017
Description: Our primary goal in writing University Success is to help you succeed in university. This is a how-to manual for your first year of study.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
A Different Road To College
Author(s): Alise Lamoreaux
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2016
Description: A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning Non-Traditional Students is designed to introduce students to the contextual issues of college. Non-traditional students have an ever-growing presence on college campuses, especially community colleges. This open educational resource is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML
Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom
Author(s): Thomas Priester
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2015
Description: Foundations of Academic Success: Words of Wisdom (FAS: WoW) introduces you to the various aspects of student and academic life on campus and prepares you to thrive as a successful college student (since there is a difference between a college student and a successful college student). Each section of FAS: WoW is framed by self-authored, true-to-life short stories from actual State University of New York (SUNY) students, employees, and alumni. The advice they share includes a variety of techniques to help you cope with the demands of college. The lessons learned are meant to enlarge your awareness of self with respect to your academic and personal goals and assist you to gain the necessary skills to succeed in college.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, PDF, XHTML, Pressbooks XML
Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students [1st Edition]
Author(s): Patricia Lynne
Editor(s): Victoria Gavin
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2023
Description: This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF
Reading and Writing Successfully in College: A Guide for Students [Revised Edition]
Author(s): Patricia Lynne
Editor(s): Vicky Gavin
Licence: CC BY-SA
Description: This textbook provides students with guidelines for understanding writing tasks as intellectual work using Bloom’s Taxonomy and for treating the writing process as a set of variable activities that move along a trajectory from idea or assignment to a finished product. The book also includes chapters on strengthening reading strategies and on finding, evaluating, and using sources effectively.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, XHTML, Pressbooks XML, WordPress XML
Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class
Author(s): Adam Falik, Doreen Piano, Dorie LaRue, Johannah White, Tracey Watts
Editor(s): Adam Falik, Doreen Piano, Dorie LaRue, Johannah White, Tracey Watts
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description: Rhetoric Matters: A Guide to Success in the First Year Writing Class offers students necessary concepts and practice to learn all the elements needed for successful first year writing and set the stage for future writing success in college.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Student Success
Author(s): Mary Shier
Editor(s): Mary Shier
Licence: CC BY
Year: 2020
Description: You will learn invaluable skills on topics such as time management, study skills, test-taking, memory techniques, researching, referencing sources, learning preferences, student supports and resources, communication skills, online learning, student funding, presentation skills, and transferring courses between post-secondary institutions. This book covers the learning outcomes for a provincial level ABE course which can be used as an elective towards a BC Adult Graduation Diploma.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, XHTML, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Listening Strategies for Success
Author(s): Larissa Conley, Sarah Darling
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description: Listening Strategies for Success enables English language learners to develop academic listening and note-taking skills. Students at the high-beginner/low-intermediate level listen to conversations and presentations on everyday topics such as holidays, food, and travel. Using interactive activities, students learn useful vocabulary and check their understanding. Each chapter introduces a strategy that can be used to improve listening comprehension and note-taking. Discussion questions provide extension activities.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook,
Includes: 109 H5P activities
Academic Writing for Success Canadian Edition
Author(s): Carrie Fraser
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: Academic Writing for Success – Canadian Edition is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 83 H5P activities
Academic Writing for Success Canadian Edition 2.0
Author(s): Carrie Fraser
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2024
Description: Academic Writing for Success – Canadian Edition is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition.
Formats: Pressbooks webbok
Includes: 82 H5P activities
Writing for Success – 1st Canadian H5P Edition
Author(s): Tara Horkoff
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2021
Description: Writing for Success is a text that provides instruction in steps, builds writing, reading, and critical thinking, and combines comprehensive grammar review with an introduction to paragraph writing and composition. It includes over 150 interactive H5P activities.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook,
Includes: 156 H5P activities
Academic Success Strategies in a Virtual Environment
Author(s): Centre for Teaching, Learning, Durham College
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2024
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 46 H5P activities
NSCC College 101 3e
Author(s): Nova Scotia Community College, KPU Learning Centres
Editor(s): Leah Sameoto, Andrea Stewart
Licence: CC BY-SA
Year: 2024
Description: NSCC College 101: Study, Strategize, and Succeed will help you create a foundation for college studies by learning how to learn. By taking time to read this book and working through the exercises included, you’re investing in the skills that will support you in your classes and future learning.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook
Includes: 14 H5P activities
A Guide for Successful Students 2nd ed.
Author(s): Irene Stewart, Aaron Maisonville, Nikolai Zriachev
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2023
Description: A Guide for Successful Students was created to accompany a non-credit course GRN 2000N THRIVES. The intention was to develop a series of modules for students entering first semester that would give them information and tools that would ease their transition to college and through that, support mental wellness. The chapters are based on skillsets, attitudes and behaviours of successful students that new students can use as a model and cover a wide range of topics that would be useful to students throughout their college years. This second edition includes materials, exercises and videos that have been added to the THRIVES course from 2019 – 2023 based on new trends and feedback from students.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, XHTML
Includes: 206 H5P activities
College Foundations
Author(s): Assiniboine College
Editor(s): Lynn Cliplef
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
Year: 2022
Description: The purpose of College Foundations is to improve students’ ability to navigate the college experience and environment. In this course, students will reflect on their skills, attitudes, and expectations and develop learning strategies to help them to become successful, resilient, and self-directed learners. The course covers topics such as success in online learning, time management strategies, communication skills, test taking strategies, academic integrity, and nformation literacy, among others. It integrates elements of student orientation.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks XML, Common Cartridge (Web Links)
Includes: 42 H5P activities
The Art of Re-Learning: A Guide to Academic Readiness
Author: Liam Frost-Camilleri
Licence: CC BY-NC
Year: 2025
Description: The Art of Re-Learning: A Guide to Academic Readiness, by NAEEA National Teaching Excellence Award winner Liam Frost-Camilleri, is a guide to building both the skills and confidence needed for university-level study. With its approachable tone and focus on key skills such as cultivating resilience, anxiety management, and fostering self-efficacy, this textbook uniquely addresses the needs of non-traditional learners. Through the act of “re-learning,” this resource offers practical strategies and invites readers to compassionately reflect on their experiences and forge an empowering learner identity geared toward growth and academic success.
Formats: EPUB, PDF, Pressbooks webbook
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