{"id":21,"date":"2022-04-04T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/esc-businesscomskills\/chapter\/about-this-course\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T15:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T15:50:37","slug":"about-this-course","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/esc-businesscomskills\/chapter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"\nIn Business Communication Skills for Managers, students learn how to effectively communicate in business, with an emphasis on the use of these skills as a manager. The course introduces important elements of successful communication, providing examples of effective communication and providing students opportunities to practice the same. The course covers the essentials of communication including professional writing, visual aids, presentations, speeches, phone and online communication, and both getting hired and finding new hires.\n

Course Improvements<\/h2>\nWe believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. This newest version of the course includes data-driven improvements to assessment questions and text content in order to better illustrate, clarify, and evaluate concepts.\n

Contributors<\/h2>\nThis course was developed by Lumen Learning with significant contributions by:\n\nPrimary Content Authors<\/strong>\nFreedom Learning Group\nBarbara Egel, City Colleges of Chicago\nSusan Kendall, Arapahoe Community College\nRobert Danielson, Saint Mary's College of California\nNina Burokas, Mendocino College, Saddleback College\nSherilyn Reynolds, San Jacinto Community College\nFarhad Desai, Concordia University\nMarie Stirk, Contributor\n\nAcknowledgments<\/strong>\nThis book has benefited from the contributions of many people, including Samantha Crane, Jamie Faulk, Corban Warren, Claudia Eckelmann, Sean Mize, Sydney Beal, Samantha Fabian, Kathleen Norton, Jorge Lazcano, Giggy Wagner, Crystal Hawkins, Kathy Norton, Sean Fitzhenry, Sonia Cohen, Seneca Utech, Joleen Padbury, Cody Poskin, Jackson Hawkins, Carla Williams, Nicole Jones, Nagisa Aoki, Wesley Dickens, Nathan Schank, Karen Green, Leana Magdaleno, Andrea Harless, Sara Ojeda-Dominguez, and Caliyah Brown.\n

About Lumen<\/h2>\nLumen Learning courseware is based on open educational resources (OER). When we can find well designed, effective OER that are appropriately licensed, we use them in our courseware. When we can\u2019t find pre-existing OER, we create original content and license it as OER (under a Creative Commons Attribution license).\n\nLumen\u2019s authoring process doesn\u2019t end when our courseware is released. Our choice to adopt open educational resources means that we have the copyright permissions necessary to engage in continuous improvement of our learning content. Consequently, our courses are continually being revised and updated. Errata reported for our courseware are fixed in a matter of days, as opposed to the traditional model in which errors persist until the next \u201cedition\u201d is printed (often a year or more). Students and faculty can suggest improvements to our courses directly from within the courseware as they use it. And we conduct regular analyses to determine where students are struggling the most in our courseware, and make improvements that specifically target these areas.\n\nGiven our unique approach, our list of authors and other contributors may look different than the lists you are used to seeing. We provide both a list of the primary content authors (the people involved in the initial creation of the course) and a list of everyone who has contributed suggestions and other improvements to the course since it was first released. We invite you to join us as we create courseware that supports student learning more effectively each semester.\n\nIf you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please Contact Us<\/a>.\n\nYou can also make an appointment<\/a> for OER Office Hours<\/a> to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.\n

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In Business Communication Skills for Managers, students learn how to effectively communicate in business, with an emphasis on the use of these skills as a manager. The course introduces important elements of successful communication, providing examples of effective communication and providing students opportunities to practice the same. The course covers the essentials of communication including professional writing, visual aids, presentations, speeches, phone and online communication, and both getting hired and finding new hires.<\/p>\n

Course Improvements<\/h2>\n

We believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. This newest version of the course includes data-driven improvements to assessment questions and text content in order to better illustrate, clarify, and evaluate concepts.<\/p>\n

Contributors<\/h2>\n

This course was developed by Lumen Learning with significant contributions by:<\/p>\n

Primary Content Authors<\/strong>
\nFreedom Learning Group
\nBarbara Egel, City Colleges of Chicago
\nSusan Kendall, Arapahoe Community College
\nRobert Danielson, Saint Mary’s College of California
\nNina Burokas, Mendocino College, Saddleback College
\nSherilyn Reynolds, San Jacinto Community College
\nFarhad Desai, Concordia University
\nMarie Stirk, Contributor<\/p>\n

Acknowledgments<\/strong>
\nThis book has benefited from the contributions of many people, including Samantha Crane, Jamie Faulk, Corban Warren, Claudia Eckelmann, Sean Mize, Sydney Beal, Samantha Fabian, Kathleen Norton, Jorge Lazcano, Giggy Wagner, Crystal Hawkins, Kathy Norton, Sean Fitzhenry, Sonia Cohen, Seneca Utech, Joleen Padbury, Cody Poskin, Jackson Hawkins, Carla Williams, Nicole Jones, Nagisa Aoki, Wesley Dickens, Nathan Schank, Karen Green, Leana Magdaleno, Andrea Harless, Sara Ojeda-Dominguez, and Caliyah Brown.<\/p>\n

About Lumen<\/h2>\n

Lumen Learning courseware is based on open educational resources (OER). When we can find well designed, effective OER that are appropriately licensed, we use them in our courseware. When we can\u2019t find pre-existing OER, we create original content and license it as OER (under a Creative Commons Attribution license).<\/p>\n

Lumen\u2019s authoring process doesn\u2019t end when our courseware is released. Our choice to adopt open educational resources means that we have the copyright permissions necessary to engage in continuous improvement of our learning content. Consequently, our courses are continually being revised and updated. Errata reported for our courseware are fixed in a matter of days, as opposed to the traditional model in which errors persist until the next \u201cedition\u201d is printed (often a year or more). Students and faculty can suggest improvements to our courses directly from within the courseware as they use it. And we conduct regular analyses to determine where students are struggling the most in our courseware, and make improvements that specifically target these areas.<\/p>\n

Given our unique approach, our list of authors and other contributors may look different than the lists you are used to seeing. We provide both a list of the primary content authors (the people involved in the initial creation of the course) and a list of everyone who has contributed suggestions and other improvements to the course since it was first released. We invite you to join us as we create courseware that supports student learning more effectively each semester.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please Contact Us<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can also make an appointment<\/a> for OER Office Hours<\/a> to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.<\/p>\n

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