Introduction to OER for Communication Studies

Welcome to the ASCCC OERI Resource Page for Communication Studies. This space is intended to provide faculty in the discipline with a collection of resources that have been subject to a peer-review process and/or that have been selected for use by faculty in the California community colleges. In addition to providing you with access to resources, this is also a place to interact with your colleagues.

The pages will be built as a collaborative process.  Please let us know if you are using one of these resources (or a different resource) and we will add that information to the page. Also, please let us know if you'd like to add a resource to the list.  Suggested ASCCC OERI Resource Form. For questions about specialized content or suggestions on other available resources, please contact

Shagun Kaur
ASCCC OERI Communication Studies Discipline Lead
kaurshagun@fhda.edu

Current Status of the Discipline

The discipline was surveyed in 2018. The results can be found here Download here

Archived Webinars

Open Education Resources for Communication (ASCCC webinar on December 7, 2018) - Webinar Links to an external site. and PPT Download PPT

Communication Studies Discussions

This Discussion is for any Communication Studies OER related topics.

Please contact Shagun Kaur (kaurshagun@fhda.edu) for more information or with questions.

Pandemic Specific Resources

Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching COMM online in the age of COVID-19

Courses

For ease of reference, resources have been organized by C-ID designation Links to an external site. 

• COMM 110: Public Speaking
• COMM 115: Survey of Human Communication
• COMM 120: Argumentation or Argumentation & Debate
• COMM 130: Interpersonal Communication
• COMM 140: Small Group Communication 
• COMM 150: Intercultural Communication
• COMM 160 B: Forensics (Speech & Debate)
• COMM 170: Oral Interpretation of Literature
• COMM 180: Introduction to Communication Studies or Introduction to Communication Theory
• COMM 190: Introduction to Persuasion

Other Courses

• Organizational/Corporate Communications
• Political Communication
• Linguistics/Rhetoric

Discipline-Specific OER Collections 

While there are no Communication Studies specific OER Collections, the ones listed below often yield better results than others for the discipline

• OER Commons Links to an external site. - OER Commons is a freely accessible online library that allows teachers and others to search and discover open educational resources and other freely available instructional materials.
• Humanities Common Links to an external site. - Features a library-quality digital repository, the Commons Open Repository Exchange, or CORE, where users can share and archive conference papers, syllabi, peer-reviewed articles and other documents and media.
• OAPEN Links to an external site. - Builds a quality controlled collection of Open Access books, mainly in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Open Culture Links to an external site. - Collection of MOOCs, textbooks and courses on educational and cultural topics.
• Digital Commons Links to an external site. - Collection of scholarly research on contemporary issues in the field of communication

Books and Journals

• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): Media and Communication Links to an external site.

  Directory of academic, peer-reviewed books
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ): Communication. Mass Media Links to an external site.

  Directory of high quality, peer-reviewed journals
• E-Books Directory: Business Communications Links to an external site.

  Books, documents, and lecture notes