Digital Foundations uses formal exercises of the Bauhaus to teach the Adobe Creative Suite. All students of digital design and production—whether learning in a classroom or on their own—need to understand the basic principles of design in order to implement them using current software. Far too often design is left out of books that teach …

Digital Foundations: Introduction to Media Design with the Adobe Creative Cloud – Revised Edition (Burrough and Mandiberg, 2017) (CC BY-NC-SA)Read More »

Public Relations Planning and Strategy is a comprehensive compilation of open access resources for college students seeking to understand PR planning and strategy essentials. This book presents a practical approach to developing effective PR plans that align with an organization’s goals and objectives.

Public Relations Case Studies: Strategies & Actions provides students with real-world PR case studies. The case studies explore PR dilemmas and campaigns in a variety of sectors and circumstances. The book offers learning opportunities about audience analysis, campaign planning, strategy, tactics, message development, media relations, and crisis communications for the PR practitioners of today and …

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This text is provided to you as an Open Educational Resource (OER) which you access online. It is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction to public relations at no or very nominal cost.  It contains both written and graphic text material, intra-text links to other internal material which may aid in understanding topics and …

The Evolving World of Public Relations (NSCC and Martinelli, 2021) (CC BY-NC)Read More »

This is a website full of classroom activities to help students review or learn fact-checking skills in a campus newsroom.. Ancillaries range from nline lesson plans, video lectures, discussion questions and other classroom activities. Development of this website concept funded in part by RTI International and the Rita Allen Foundation via the Misinformation Solutions Forum …

Check, Please! Starter Course for Fact Checkers (CC BY)Read More »

This free and open textbook teaches college-level journalism students to become information experts. Using the themes of credibility and information literacy, the book helps today’s students, who start out all their research with Google and Wikipedia, to specialize in accessing, evaluating, and managing information that often is not accessible through Google searches. The book includes …

Be Credible: Information Literacy for Journalism, Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing Students (Bobkowski and Younger, 2018) (CC BY-NC)Read More »