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Information Technology

• Open Textbook Library - Information Systems – This textbook, designed for both undergraduate and/or graduate students and is used to helps to focuses on where business and technology meet

• BCcampus - Information Systems for Business and Beyond – This textbook is about Information systems and how they are used in a business and world setting. 

• Bookboon - Business Information Systems - This textbook provides an overview of business information systems and provides definitions for the different systems used in companies.

• Open Textbook Library - Information Systems for Business and Beyond - In this book, you will be introduced to the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world.

• Open Textbook Library - Database Design – This book covers the concepts used in database systems and the database design process.

• OER Commons - Computer Ethics and the Online World - This PowerPoint presentation is a brief lecture about the introduction to computer ethics and its implications on the online community. Common ethical issues are presented and are retrieved from valid sources. Local ethical issues from the Philippines are given to provide viewers specific examples of concerns.

• Ted - What's wrong with your pa$$w0rd? - Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to compromise security

• Ted - The security mirage - The feeling of security and the reality of security don't always match, says computer-security expert Bruce Schneier. In his talk, he explains why we spend billions addressing news story risks, like the "security theater" now playing at your local airport, while neglecting more probable risks -- and how we can break this pattern.

• YouTube - Keynote: The Seven Axioms of Security - As the defenses have caught up and closed open doors, we attackers have looked for new avenues and vectors. Looking back on the state of defenses from One-Way Web Hacking in 2001 to Stegosploit in 2016, a common pattern emerges. Defense boils down to reacting to new attacks and then playing catch-up.

• Open Textbook Library - Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems - Introduction to the Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems introduces students to mathematical/computational modeling and analysis developed in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Complex Systems Science. 

• Open Textbook Library - An Introduction to Computer Networks - It covers the LAN, internetworking and transport layers, focusing primarily on TCP/IP. Particular attention is paid to congestion; other special topics include queuing, real-time traffic, network management, security, mininet and the ns simulator.

• Open Textbook Library - Computer Networking - This open textbook aims to fill the gap between the open-source implementations and the open-source network specifications by providing a detailed but pedagogical description of the key principles that guide the operation of the Internet.

• Open Textbook Library - Computer Networks – The aim of this textbook is to describe the available building materials and then to show how they can be used to construct a network from the ground up.

• OER Commons - The growing role of AI and ML in data security - The organizations that depend largely on collecting data from various sources or are highly digitized must adopt data security.

• Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence - Agent Behaviour - This book is the second in a series on Artificial Intelligence. It adopts a behaviour-based approach to the design of agent-oriented systems.

• Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence: Exercises I - This free “Artificial Intelligence: Exercises I” eBook will guide you through useful exercises related to the “Agent Behavior” text.

• Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence - Agents and Environments - This book is the first in a series on Artificial Intelligence. It provides an introduction to the topic with an emphasis on the use of agent-oriented design.

• Bookboon - Artificial Intelligence: Exercises II - This Artificial Intelligence: Exercises II eBook will guide you through useful exercises related to the “Agent Behavior” text. Both the source text and this exercise eBook can be downloaded for free.

• Bookboon - Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence - This book is a concise introduction to key philosophical questions in artificial intelligence that have long been debated by many of the great minds in the field.

• United Nations - E-commerce and e-business - In the emerging global economy, e-commerce and e-business have increasingly become a necessary component of business strategy and a strong catalyst for economic development. The integration of information and communications technology (ICT) in business has revolutionized relationships within organizations and those between and among organizations and individuals. Specifically, the use of ICT in business has enhanced productivity, encouraged greater customer participation, and enabled mass customization, besides reducing costs.

• Bookboon - Introduction to E-Commerce - From technologies to processes, from B2C to B2B, from payment to security, the book investigates E-Commerce integrated – for readers with an economic as well as with a computer science background.

• Bookboon - The Basics of Business Models - This book introduces you to the basic knowledge you need to understand what business models are and how they can be analysed and communicated.

• Bookboon - Business Model Design - The field of business models is about to become a core management discipline alongside accounting, finance, organization etc.

• Search User Interfaces – This textbook covers the human side of the information seeking.

• Interactive Design Foundation - The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction – This Encyclopedia covers the design of interactive products and services such as websites and many other items.

• Open Textbook Library - Risk Management for Enterprise and Individuals - This book is intended for the Risk Management and Insurance course where Risk Management is emphasized.

• Open Textbook Library - Enterprise Pharo a Web Perspective - It covers enterprise libraries and frameworks, and in particular those useful for doing web development. The book is structured in five parts.

• BCcampus - Digital Accessibility as a Business Practice - Most business leaders would agree that reaching the broadest audience is good for a business’s bottom line. A good portion of that audience will be people with disabilities. How, though, would an organization go about ensuring it is as accessible as it can be to all its potential clients or customers, including people with disabilities? This book has been created to answer this question, and to demystify “digital accessibility” as a business practice.

• BCcampus - Ethical Use of Technology in Digital Learning Environments - Volume 1 - This book is the result of a co-design project in a class in the Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary. The course, and the resulting book, focus primarily on the safe and ethical use of technology in digital learning environments.

• BCcampus - Ethical Use of Technology in Digital Learning Environments - Volume 2 – This book is the result of a co-design project in a class in the Masters of Education program at the University of Calgary. All of the chapters were written during the COVID-19 pandemic and demonstrate many of the educational technology and ethics topics selected by graduate students that were particularly concerning during this period of time. This includes creating national healthcare applications with personal information; excessive video gaming for children; the need for data literacy skills for teachers and students; access to broadband in rural communities; online cheating and use of e-proctoring; video intrusion during synchronous online classes; and the risks in using artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data in educational contexts.

• Bookboon - Digitalization & It eBooks and Audio - Improve your business through digitalization, IT and programming knowhow. – This link provides an extensive list of eBooks available for download which focus on digitalization & Information Technology.

• Open Textbook Library - Computer Science Textbooks – A collection of eBooks focused on the subject of Computer Science and these books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality.

• IntechOpen - Computer and Information Science – a collection of textbooks and journals on the subject of Computer Science which are all open access.

• Open Culture - Free Computer Science Textbooks – A collection of links to free textbooks aka open textbooks all relating to Computer Science.

• MIT Open Courseware - is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.

• The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) - is a Pathways portal of the National Science Digital Library and funded by the National Science Foundation. CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science.

• BCcampus - Embedded Controllers using C and Arduino - This text introduces embedded controller systems using the inexpensive and widely available Arduino hardware platform and the C programming language.

• BCcampus - Cellular Internet of Things for Practitioners - This book describes the simplified architecture of an IoT network from the core functional perspective and then presents step-by-step procedures to establish a connection between the IoT device and platform.

• WAC Clearinghouse - Foundational Practices of Online Writing Instruction - addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses.

• University of Houston - Business Computer Information Systems – A textbook on information systems within a business.

• Rebus Community - Programming Fundamentals: A Modular Structured Approach - The goal for this textbook is to make it programming-language neutral, so that it may serve as an introductory programming textbook for students using any of a variety of programming languages, including C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Swift.

• Ryerson University - Understanding Document Accessibility - Intended for a general audience, this free resource reviews a wide range of document authoring applications, including the tools they contain for creating accessible documents, and tests them to ensure they do not contain potential barriers. Learn how to create accessible word-processed documents, spreadsheets, presentation slides, and PDF documents, among others, so they are accessible to everyone.

• Open Library Pressbooks - Beginning Excel - This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2016, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before.

• Open Library Pressbooks - Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective - This book contains eight chapters. Chapter Two briefly describes the technology that makes electronic commerce possible, while Chapter Three introduces the topic of Web strategy. The major functions of marketing are described in the next five chapters: Promotion (Chapter Four); Promotion and Purchase (Chapter Five); Distribution (Chapter Six); Service (Chapter Seven); and Pricing (Chapter Eight). The final chapter takes a broader, societal perspective and discusses the influence of electronic commerce on society.

• Open Library Pressbooks - Open Data Structures (in Java) - This textbook teaches introductory data structures.

• Open Library Pressbooks - Information Systems - Students need to understand systems and the systems concept, and they need to understand the role of ICT in enabling systems. Students will learn the characteristics of good systems (e.g., intuitive, likable, error-resistant, fast, flexible, and the like). Knowing the characteristics of good systems will permit students to demand well designed systems and to suggest how existing systems should be changed. 

• The MIT Press - How to Design Programs, 2nd Edition - This book approaches the creation of software that relies on systematic thought, planning, and understanding from the very beginning, at every stage, and for every step. To emphasize this point, we speak of systematic program design and systematically designed programs.

• Google Developer Training - Advanced Android Development - The Advanced Android Development course is intended for experienced developers who have Java programming experience and know the fundamentals of how to build an Android app using the Java language. 

• Green Tea Press - Think Python 3rd Edition  - Think Python is an introduction to Python for people who have never programmed before – or for people who have tried and had a hard time.

• Open Textbook Library - Linear Regression Using R: An Introduction to Data Modeling - This book presents one of the fundamental data modeling techniques in an informal tutorial style. Learn how to predict system outputs from measured data using a detailed step-by-step process to develop, train, and test reliable regression models. Key modeling and programming concepts are intuitively described using the R programming language. All of the necessary resources are freely available online.