OPEN Textbooks for Student Success

It’s Open Education Week so we’re delighted to highlight an *open* textbook that recently received national recognition. Blueprint for Success in College and Career, written by Dave Dillon, won the 2019 Textbook Excellence Award from the Textbook & Academic Authors Association. Dillon’s textbook is openly licensed with CC-BY, so with proper attribution the general public can freely use, download, share, and adapt it to meet their needs.

More about the book, as seen on its landing page:

A free, Open Educational Resource, Blueprint for Success in College and Career is 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.

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.

Other open textbooks about student success that may be of interest to you are:

• 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