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Graphic Design and Print Production Fundamentals
Graphic Communications Open Textbook Collective · BCCampus
This textbook addresses the many steps of creating and then producing physical, printed, or other imaged products that people interact with on a daily basis. It covers the concept that, while most modern graphic design is created on computers using design software, the ideas and concepts don’t stay on the computer. The ideas need to be completed in the computer software, then progress to an imaging (traditionally referred to as printing) process.
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Fundamentals of Building Construction Management
John Messner · The Pennsylvania State University
This book provides an overview of the building industry, the projects performed within the industry, and methods to plan and manage the delivery of a construction project.
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Trades Access Common Core Line B: Use Interpersonal Communication Skills
Camosun College · BC Campus
No matter what your job is, you will need to communicate with other people. Your communication skills determine how successfully you receive and transmit information. Communication is arguably the most important of all life skills and plays a significant role in all aspects of work and home life. Communication is verbal, written, and non-verbal, and every gesture, voice inflection, or facial movement speaks volumes and conveys information to others.
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Fundamentals - Drawings and Specifications
BC Campus · LibreTexts
Some of the most important documents used in the workplace are the technical drawings, diagrams, and schematics that specify how fabrication and construction tasks will be carried out, or describe the composition and assembly of equipment. One of the essential skills for anyone involved in a trade is the ability to correctly interpret drawings.
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Transforming Adult Education
Alli M. Tucker-Stanojković · North Orange Continuing Education
The toolkit contextualizes general essential skills of instruction and bridges the gap between course content and applied workforce readiness. It is designed to allow instructors to integrate these lessons into any course with minimal modification, providing ready-to-use, evidence-based activities that align academic instruction with real-world employability skills.
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Fundamentals of American Criminal Justice
Lisa C. Bowman-Bowen & Jamie O'Reilly · Coastal Bend College
Fundamentals of American Criminal Justice (LibreTexts OER) introduces crime, deviance, and lawmaking (interactionist, consensus, conflict). It overviews policing, courts, and corrections, plus due process vs. crime control, case flow, media influence, victims, and crime types. It explains measuring crime (dark figure, UCR/NIBRS, NCVS, self-reports), criminal law and punishment, policy and evidence-based practice, criminological theory, community corrections, and juvenile justice.
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MET 256 - Fundamentals of Instruments and Electricity
Richard Gentry · Sacramento City College
This text introduces the student to the fundamentals of electrical instruments and concepts required in commercial and industrial practice. Units of instruction include: fundamentals of electricity, Ohms law, use of voltmeters, ammeters, ohmmeters, series and parallel circuits, wiring diagrams, and electromagnetic theory. Students will need to have access to a computer and the Internet and have some familiarity with a computer.
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It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century
Sara Kim; Douglas Marshall; June Pulliam · LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network
In addition to original material this book is an adaptation of Introduction to Speech Communication authored by Sarah E. Hollingsworth, Kathryn Weinland, Sasha Hanrahan, and Mary Walker with a CC BY-NC-SA license. Introduction to Speech Communication includes original work as well as adapted and remixed material from Exploring Public Speaking: 4th Edition licensed CC BY-NC-SA, Stand Up, Speak Out licensed CC BY-NC-SA, and Fundamentals of Public Speaking licensed CC BY. It’s About Them: Public Speaking in the 21st Century also adapted a chapter from Speak Out, Call In: Public Speaking as Advocacy authored by Meggie Mapes that is licensed CC BY-NC-SA. The information on “What is an Open Textbook?” is adapted from Introduction to Philosophy: Epistemology by Christina Hendricks with a CC-BY license. See the Adaptations section for specific changes. This textbook was created as part of the Interactive OER for Dual Enrollment project, facilitated by LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network and funded by a $2 million Open Textbooks Pilot Program grant from the Department of Education. This project supports the extension of access to high-quality post-secondary opportunities to high school students across Louisiana and beyond. This project features a collaboration between educational systems in Louisiana, the library community, Pressbooks technology partner, and workforce representatives. It will enable and enhance the delivery of open educational resources (OER) and interactive quiz and assessment elements for priority dual enrollment courses in Louisiana and nationally. Developed OER course materials will be released under a license that permits their free use, reuse, modification and sharing with others.The target audience for this project and this textbook are dual enrollment students. Dual enrollment is the opportunity for a student to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. A dual enrollment student receives credit on both their high school and college tr
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Quantway Core
Carnegie Math Pathways · WestEd
In the contents: 05: Fundamentals Lessons 1 to 27 - Student Lessons · 5.01: Fundamentals 1 - Quantitative Reasoning · 5.02: Fundamentals 2 - Order of OperationsAddition and Subtraction
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Introduction to Data Analytics
Felix Amoruwa · De Anza College
In the contents: 11.01: Understanding Business Intelligence (BI) Fundamentals
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Electric Circuits V - References
Tony R. Kuphaldt · Bellingham Technical College
In the contents: 7.03: Fundamentals of SPICE programming
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Introduction to Residential HVAC Level 1
Richard Valenzuela · Coalinga College
In the contents: 01: Fundamentals of Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC R) · 6.06: Circuit Fundamentals
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Electrical Fundamentals Competency
Industry Training Authority of BC · LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: Fundamentals of Electricity
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Additive Manufacturing Essentials
OpenStax · LibreTexts
In the contents: 01: Fundamentals of Additive Manufacturing
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Principles of Management
OpenStax · LibreTexts
In the contents: 12.03: Diversity and the Workforce
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Computer Fundamentals for Technical Students
Nick Heisserer · Central Lakes College
This text was created to provide students enrolled in Technical Education Programs or professionals in business and industry with contextual learning opportunities to develop the necessary computer skills to function in the 21st-century workforce in a non-IT technical field.
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Tractor Operations
Peter Maokosy · Coalinga College
In the contents: 2.03: Fuel and Combustion Fundamentals · 3.02: Powertrain Fundamentals · 5.07: Field Operation Fundamentals
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Troubleshooting Motors and Controls
Ken Dickson-Self · Linn-Benton Community College
In the contents: 1.02: Electrical Fundamentals
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Advanced Computer Organization Architecture
Harrison Njoroge · African Virtual University
In the contents: 4.01: Fundamentals I O- handshake and buffering
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Fundamentals of Emergency Management
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