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Investigating the Earth is a open-access physical geology lab manual. The exercises heavily rely on student observations and inquiry-based learning. We have uploaded this book to Lulu Press so that you may have them print a copy for you. The cost is $23.65 plus shipping. We believe in free access to educational materials, therefore we collect no revenue from Lulu. The price you pay is simply the cost Lulu charges to print the materials for you. You can also download a printable PDF version to print on your own.
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Updated July 2025

Course Description: An overview of the history and implications of travel and tourism as an economic, political, and cultural force, and the effect of tourism development on the quality of life of the host society.

This is a pathway overview and playbook for Innovation Principles Technology Leadership and Innovation Management: TLIM-3330 course. The intent is to provide insight into the methodology and practice for learning and applying innovation as cognitive skills of thinking. The course is the gateway class for The University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering’s Technology Leadership and Innovation Management (TLIM) multi-course Applied Innovation curricula. The world, markets, people, and students are undergoing dynamic changes driven by a waterfall of technology solutions. According to McKinsey,  84% of CEOs believe innovation is critical to growth. There are reasons why companies put a lot of emphasis on it. Innovation allows organizations to stay relevant in a competitive market and is important for economic growth. The ability to detect and resolve critical problems and capitalize on potential depends on understanding and applying thinking as elite scalable competency.

The Innovation Principles course (and the following advanced courses) is a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) curriculum designed to change a student’s life, train their mind to think competently, obstruct cognitive offloading from AI, and provide students with reasoning tools. These resources help manage and design the avalanche of data and solutions that are confronting the knowledge-based, technology-dependent, global economy over the next 20 years. The disciplines of thinking taught in the course are lateral thinking, logic modeling, systems thinking, critical thinking, and reasoning to create, communicate, and design opportunities while accessing and leading resources through disruption.
TLIM-3330 Innovation Principles – 3 Course Modules

The foundation of the applied innovation principles course complements professional industry accepted competencies blended with professional legacies of inventing and launching new global markets and products. The program’s disciplines encompass three course modules:

Course Module 1: Engineering Ingenuity: The art of stimulating the brain to create solutions.

Course Module 2: Development: Building an idea into an innovation concept.

Course Module 3: Production: Engineering a concept for commercialization.

This book is intended as a semester course on the basic notions of Thermodynamics, Thermochemistry, and Quantum Mechanics for students majoring in Science (other than Chemistry and Physics) and Mathematics. It is appropriate as an introductory text for Chemistry and Physics majors as well.

This open source book is used in a hospitality financial accounting class to introduce students to all the elements of the accounting cycle and topics such as financial statement analysis, inventory management, cash control, bank reconciliation, and payroll.

This is the second edition of our open-access lab manual for a historical geology lab released for the Fall 2023 semester. It focuses on student observations. We have uploaded this book to Lulu Press so that you may have them print a copy for you. The cost is $21.63 plus shipping. We believe in free access to educational materials, therefore we collect no revenue from Lulu. The price you pay is simply the cost Lulu charges to print the materials for you. You can also download a printable PDF version to print on your own.
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Welcome to the Open Learning Handbook for University of Houston Educators! This book includes a series of self-paced online learning units. These units serve as an introduction to open educational resources (OER) as well as an opportunity for further exploration and discovery of OER and open education practices. Throughout the units there are opportunities for you to test your knowledge or further explore a concept. The modules allow you to learn at your own pace. While you can follow the modules in any order, it is recommended that you start with Unit 1 and progress through in order.

The InterACTIVE Kids’ Math Dictionary is more than just a list of terms and stuffy definitions. For each math term, the authors creatively demonstrate a) a clear definition of the term in formal mathematical language, b) a “kid speak” definition, c) at least one example of the term “in action” through a linked math lesson or game, a photograph, or a video demonstration of the term being used in a math context. Readers can click on links to propel their learning forward as they build conceptual understanding, not just memorization, of math terms.