Download and Remix

Open licensing grants permission; it does not, by itself, make reuse practical. This page is the practical counterpart to License and Rights, and it reflects a commitment that runs through the project: anyone who wishes to retain, revise, or remix these materials should be able to do so with as little friction as possible. It describes where to download the project, what the downloadable copies contain, and how the materials have been constructed with adaptation in mind. Making the full project downloadable and editable is an intentional part of the project's open pedagogical design.

Using the Project on Manifold

You do not need to download anything to teach from this project. Every module, unit, and case study has a stable URL suitable for syllabi and learning management systems, and each unit is written to stand alone, so you may link to a single unit or case study without adopting the whole. Manifold also supports annotation and reading groups: instructors may create a reading group for a class, and students may highlight and annotate the texts collectively.

What You Can Download

Two copies of the project exist outside Manifold, and both are governed by the license and terms described in License and Rights. The editable source lives on GitHub: one plain-HTML file per unit, case study, and module overview, together with the project's images and their rights information. You may clone the repository or download it as a ZIP. An archival copy is deposited on Zenodo: a versioned snapshot of the same source with a DOI, suitable for citation and long-term reference.

Two things are deliberately not included. Assigned readings and scholarship are linked rather than bundled — copyrighted works remain with their publishers, with open-access alternatives noted where they exist. Student projects are also not part of the downloadable package; as described in License and Rights, they are published on this site only, with their authors' consent.

Ways to Remix

Adaptation can be as small or as large as your course requires. You may link — point a syllabus or LMS directly to a unit or case study and teach from it as published. You may excerpt — copy a reading list, a case study exercise, or a set of reflection questions into your own materials, with attribution. You may edit — download the source and revise it; the files are plain HTML with no custom styling or scripts, so they open in any text editor and require no build step or special software. Or you may rebuild — re-host edited files wherever suits your context: a learning management system, a campus Manifold instance, a website, or print.

How This Project Supports Remixing

Several design choices were made with adaptation in mind. Units are standalone and may be excerpted or reordered freely. Every unit follows the same section anatomy, which makes it predictable to swap readings, adjust questions, or write new units alongside the existing ones. The HTML is deliberately plain — no custom styling, scripts, or platform dependencies — so files paste cleanly into other systems. Images are rights-cleared, and each caption carries the attribution a reuser needs. Readings are linked with open-access alternatives noted wherever possible, so adapted versions do not inherit paywalled dependencies.

A Note on Links

Every link in this project was verified before publication. Links age, however: pages move, URLs change, resources are archived, and projects are sometimes discontinued or lose their hosting — often for reasons beyond any author's control. If you reuse or adapt these materials, particularly after some time has passed, it is worth confirming that the links in the sections you use are still current. Where a resource has moved or disappeared, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine can often locate an archived copy, and the open-access alternatives noted throughout the units may serve as substitutes.