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NSCC Pressbooks Guide

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) 1 H5P Activities English

Author(s): NSCC Copyright and Open Education Office

Subject(s): Desktop publishing, Accessibility in web and digital design

Publisher: Nova Scotia Community College

Last updated: 06/06/2024

A guide to using Pressbooks at NSCC.
Everything you need to know about locating, using, adapting, and creating open textbooks at NSCC.
Note: Work in progress -- some chapters not finished.

Lifespan Development

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Lumen Learning

Subject(s): Child, developmental and lifespan psychology

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 05/06/2024

Download FREE digital formats or read online.
Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood.
The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.

Interpersonal Communication

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): Jason S. Wrench, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, Katherine S. Thweatt

Subject(s): Communication studies

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 05/06/2024

Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships helps readers examine their own one-on-one communicative interactions using a mindfulness lens. The writing team of Jason S. Wrench, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Katherine Thweatt incorporates the latest communication theory and research to help students navigate everyday interpersonal interactions. The 14 chapters in this book cover topics typically taught in an undergraduate interpersonal communication course: family interactions, interpersonal dynamics, language, listening, nonverbal communication, and romantic relationships, as well as exploring emerging areas such as self-compassion, body positivity, friendships, and “the dark side”. The writing takes on a purposefully informal tone to engage readers. Each chapter is broken into different sections that have unique instructional outcomes, key takeaways, and exercises, and concludes with real-world case studies and sample quiz questions. Also included is an extensive glossary with over 350 definitions.

NSCC Concepts of Biology I BIOL 1046

CC BY (Attribution) 81 H5P Activities English

Author(s): Kerri Sheridan, Charles Molnar, Jane Gair, Mary Ann Clark, Matthew Douglas, Jung Choi

Subject(s): Biology, life sciences

Publisher: Nova Scotia Community College

Last updated: 05/06/2024

In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. This text also includes interactive H5P activities that you can use to evaluate your understanding as you go.

For BIOL 1047: See companion book NSCC Concepts of Biology II BIOL 1047

NSCC Concepts of Biology II BIOL 1047

CC BY (Attribution) 147 H5P Activities English

Author(s): Kerri Sheridan, Jung Choi, Mary Ann Clark, Matthew Douglas

Subject(s): The Arts

Last updated: 05/06/2024

In this survey text, directed at those not majoring in biology, we dispel the assumption that a little learning is a dangerous thing. This text also includes interactive H5P activities that you can use to evaluate your understanding as you go.

For BIOL 1046: See companion book NSCC Concepts of Biology I BIOL 1046

Using H5P in Pressbooks

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Author(s): Lynn MacGregor

Subject(s): Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL)

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 31/05/2024

This open book was created in NSCC Pressbooks for a Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries (CAAL) session on using H5P in Pressbooks.

Communication Skills

CC BY (Attribution) 177 H5P Activities English

Author(s): NSCC, Jordan Smith

Subject(s): Business communication and presentation

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 23/05/2024

Communication Skills is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that are necessary to succeed in the modern workplace. It is written in the reader-friendly style of a professional email between colleagues. Adapted from the Seneca College version of Communication @ Work.

1, 2, 3 Write!

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Author(s): Gay Monteverde

Subject(s): Language learning: writing skills

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 22/05/2024

1, 2, 3 Write! provides step-by-step instruction to build college writing skills. It combines comprehensive grammar and mechanics review with sentence, paragraph and essay writing techniques and practice. Links to example essays from professional and student writers demonstrate the skills studied and provide reading and critical thinking opportunities.

Selling for Success 3e

CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) English

Author(s): NSCC, Michelle Clement, Saylor

Editor(s): Di Best, Deirdre Evans, Jules Fauteux

Subject(s): Sales and marketing, Business and Management, Business strategy, Sales and marketing management

Publisher: Nova Scotia Community College

Last updated: 17/05/2024

The Power of Selling focuses on forming and nurturing long term relationships in a sales context. A 7-step model is used.

This new 2023 edition replaces The Power of Selling 2e.

Introduction to Sociology Lumen/OpenStax

CC BY (Attribution) English

Author(s): Lumen Learning, OpenStax

Subject(s): Sociology

Publisher: NSCC

Last updated: 16/05/2024

Learn how the core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories of sociology help explain how simple, everyday human actions and interactions can change the world. This is an open textbook. Digital versions are free.