Creation of this open education resource was founded in part by the 2022 Affordable Course Materials Summer Fellowship at Baylor University Libraries. Dr. Karenna Malavanti (Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University) was one of eleven inaugural Affordable Course Materials Summer Fellows. For that project, I worked on a comprehensive OER for Introductory Psychological Science. Learning how to adapt an OER during that fellowship and how to use Pressbooks helped me try to do the same for my upper-level Cognition course in Fall 2023. I was assisted by Dr. Christina Chan-Park (Research Librarian for Science and Data, Baylor Libraries), who spent a significant amount of time and effort into ensuring the continuity of the contents is preserved throughout as well as ensuring that we are compliant with the variety of licensing requirements due to the open source materials involved.

Finally, I learn from my fellow teacher-scholars, my family, and my students every single day. Learning is a journey, and I’m so glad to be learning alongside each of you.

Karenna Malavanti