Open Educational Resources Guide

This book provides insights to help students understand college life and strategies to address the most pressing issues—the personal challenges, social pressures, and academic demands.

Now in available in audio...See below. This text received a 2019 Textbook Excellence Award by the Textbook & Academic Authors Association. Presented in Pressbooks, this resource is 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.

This course provides resources for first-year college students on the path to academic and life success. Available via Course Hero and Lumen Learning.

College Success has a student-friendly format arranged to help students develop the essential skills and provide the information they need to succeed in college. Published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.

This version is by ELI (Extended Learning Institute at NOVA) via Lumen Learning. The focus of this textbook is preparing students for a college education with the study and life skills they need to become successful students.

This book is designed to engage students in seeing themselves as college students and understanding the complexity of what that means to their lives. Published by Open Oregon Educational Resources.

This book introduces students to the various aspects of student and academic life and prepares them to thrive as successful college students. Developed by Thomas Priester, Director of Transitional Studies/Assistant Professor at SUNY Genesee Community College.

This Pressbooks text helps students to create a foundation for post-secondary studies by learning how to learn. By taking the time to read this book and work through the exercises included, students are investing in the skills that will support them in all of their classes and future learning. Developed by Kwantlen Polytechnic University Learning Centres in British Columbia.