Formation Agile

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Effective Business Communication
Chapter 2: Delivering Your Message
Chapter 3: Understanding Your Audience
Chapter 4: Effective Business Writing
Chapter 5: Writing Preparation
Chapter 6: Writing
Chapter 7: Revising and Presenting Your Writing
Chapter 8: Feedback in the Writing Process
Chapter 9: Business Writing in Action
Chapter 10: Developing Business Presentations
Chapter 11: Nonverbal Delivery
Chapter 12: Organization and Outlines
Chapter 13: Presentations to Inform
Chapter 14: Presentations to Persuade
Chapter 15: Business Presentations in Action
Chapter 16: Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Business Communication
Chapter 17: Negative News and Crisis Communication
Chapter 18: Intercultural and International Business Communication
Chapter 19: Group Communication, Teamwork, and Leadership

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Teaching as a Communication Process
Chapter 2 Communicating with Instructional Objectives
Chapter 3 Instructional Communication Strategies
Chapter 4 Communication, Affect, and Student Needs
Chapter 5 Learning Styles
Chapter 6 Classroom Anxieties and Fears
Chapter 7 Communication and Student Self-Concept
Chapter 8 Instructional Assessment: Feedback, Grading, and Affect
Chapter 9 Traditional and Mastery Learning Systems
Chapter 10 Student Misbehavior and Classroom Management
Chapter 11 Teacher Misbehaviors and Communication
Chapter 12 Teacher Self-Concept and Communication
Chapter 13 Increasing Classroom Affect Through Teacher Communication Style
Chapter 14 Teacher Temperament in the Classroom
Chapter 15 Teacher Communication: Performance and Burnout

The use of open textbooks in universities is according to some organisations changing the higher education landscape and is promising for the mainstream adoption of OER. The aim of this paper is to analyse authors’ views of agency and empowerment when they plan, create and reflect on their open textbooks, their teaching and students’ learning. Another aim is to analyse the ways in which knowledge supports authors’ creation of open textbooks and tensions inherent in this practice. This qualitative study used a modified version of a validated questionnaire for 1 h long semi-structured interviews with four interviewees, conducted over 4 days. The data from the interviews were analysed in three steps combining two coding structures, for self-regulated learning and levels of contradictions. The results suggest that the four authors engendered a sense of relational agency in the creation process. They indicated that they valued openness and the pedagogical project itself by highlighting both teachers’ and learners’ perception of agency and empowerment. The data also support the authors’ concerns about the disruptive nature of open textbooks regarding stability versus adaptation and data ownership as it relates to use of learning analytics and commercial interests, indicating considerable contradictions in open textbook practices.

The WikiEducator is an evolving community intended for the collaborative:

• planning of education projects linked with the development of free content
• development of free content on Wikieducator for e-learning
• work on building open education resources (OERs) on how to create OERs
• networking on funding proposals developed as free content

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Why Public Speaking Matters Today
Chapter 2: Ethics Matters: Understanding the Ethics of Public Speaking
Chapter 3: Speaking Confidently
Chapter 4: The Importance of Listening
Chapter 5: Audience Analysis
Chapter 6: Finding a Purpose and Selecting a Topic
Chapter 7: Researching Your Speech
Chapter 8: Supporting Ideas and Building Arguments
Chapter 9: Introductions Matter: How to Begin a Speech Effectively
Chapter 10: Creating the Body of a Speech
Chapter 11: Concluding with Power
Chapter 12: Outlining
Chapter 13: The Importance of Language
Chapter 14: Delivering the Speech
Chapter 15: Presentation Aids: Design and Usage
Chapter 16: Informative Speaking
Chapter 17: Persuasive Speaking
Chapter 18: Speaking to Entertain

Table of Contents

I. Writing a Speech
II. Presenting a Speech
III. Presentation Aids for Speech
IV. Speeches
V. Considerations for Speech
VI. Classroom Activities and Additional Resources

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About the Book

This advanced public speaking textbook is designed to encourage you as a speaker and to help you sharpen your skills. It is written to feel like you are sitting with a trusted mentor over coffee as you receive practical advice on speaking. Grow in confidence, unleash your personal power and find your unique style as you learn to take your speaking to the next level--polished and professional.