49 Communications
Courses
Business Communications curated and designed by Melissa Ashman (CC BY).
Students will learn how to analyze context and audience, determine purpose, message content, visual design and media in order to create written workplace messages that can be received, understood, used and retrieved with speed and accuracy.
Business Communications 2 curated and designed by Karen McMurray (CC BY).
This course explores the many strategies and methods one might employ to ensure important messages are communicated in a professional manner. This course establishes business communication fundamentals such as delivering bad news, writing informational reports, creating persuading messages, designing and delivering professional presentations, and preparing for employment searches.
STEM Foundations (CC BY-NC-SA).
This course offers practice using workplace communication, with activities designed to strengthen skills in preparation for entering a college program in a STEM career.
Guides
Pathways to Connection: A Facilitation Guide for Social Emotional Development and Community Engagement by Robin Higgins (Public Domain)
This facilitation guide focuses on making and maintaining human connections through detailed lesson plans, case studies, articles, links to resources and on-line adaptations while exploring personal and cultural identity, mental health, well-being, and resilience.
Plain Language and Design for Post-Secondary by debnielsen and worfolkm (CC BY-NC-SA)
Have you ever found yourself rereading sentences or paragraphs, trying to understand what the writer meant? Or maybe you have put off or just avoided reading a document because it seemed too complicated. This handbook will show you how to make your writing easier to understand, even when you are writing about complex topics. It will give you tips on how to make your sentences clearer and show you how to organize your documents so they are more effective for the reader.
Supplementary Materials
A Guide to Academic Podcasting by Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor (CC BY-NC-ND).
Academic podcasting is the communication of scholarly knowledge through the digital medium of podcasting. Podcasting can take on many forms, including interviews, audio documentary, fiction, or experimental sound forms.
WISC-Online Communication Learning Objects (CC BY-NC).
A collection of learning objects on various communication topics by various authors.
Textbooks
Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies by [author removed at request of original publisher] (CC BY-NC-SA).
This book overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action. As of January 2024 this resource has had 33.5 million page views, 1.2 million visitors and 59,000 downloads.
Communication Theory (CC BY-SA).
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