Faculty Tools – Page 3 – Promoting Employability Skills

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Model for designing service learning approach to developing technical communication skills

Download Faculty may use this model to design service learning activities for their technician students. From Tucker, M. L., McCarthy, A. M., Hoxmeier, J. A., & Lenk, M. M. (1998). Community service learning increases communication skills across the business curriculum. Business Communication Quarterly, 61(2), 88-99.

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Model of how communication skills progress over the course of a curriculum over several years

Download Faculty can use this model to plan their own expectations for technician students' learning about communication over time. From Teles, V. M., & de Oliveira, C. E. T. (2003, March). Reviewing the curriculum of software engineering undergraduate courses to incorporate communication and interpersonal skills teaching.

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Ways to increase and change writing activities over time

Download Faculty may use this model to develop a series of progressively more challenging and work-relevant writing activities across different technical courses in a program. From Roppel, T. A., Hung, J. Y., Wentworth, S. W., & Hodel, A. S. (2000). An interdisciplinary laboratory sequence in electrical

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Sample writing activities in technical courses

Download Faculty may use this list to develop a set of writing tasks for technical courses. From Pomykalski, J. J. (2006). Constructing integrated writing assignments for the IS curriculum. Journal of Information Systems Education, 17(2), 171–183.

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Topics for computer ethics discussions

Download Faculty may use this list of topics to design discussion activities about issues in a technical field. From Polack-Wahl, J. A. (2000). It is time to stand up and communicate [computer science courses]. In proceedings in the 30th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference (pp. F1G–16).

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Sample communication activities to include in simulated work environment

Download Faculty can use this sample of organizational communication activities to create their own set for work simulation activities. From Jeyaraj, A. (2010). Business process elicitation, modeling, and reengineering: Teaching and learning with simulated environments. Journal of Information Systems Education, 21(2), 253–264.

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Sample memo from simulated work environment

Download Faculty may find this sample memo a useful model for creating their own communication assignments in workplace simulation actvities. From Gerhard, G. C. (1999). Techniques in a pseudocorporate environment [engineering education]. IEEE Transactions on Education, 42(4), 255–260.

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Model of industry-relevant communication types

Download Faculty may find this flow chart of industry-relevant communication skills useful for identifying skills for their programs. From Georgopoulos, C. J., & Georgopoulos, V. C. (1984). From university term papers to industry technical reports: An attempt to bridge the existing gap. IEEE Transactions on Education,

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Steps to creating communication curricula for technical programs

Download A high-level overview of four key steps to creating communication curricula for technical programs From Burge, J. E., Anderson, P. V., Carter, M., Gannod, G. C., & Vouk, M. A. (2012). First Steps Toward Integrating Communication Instruction Throughout Computer Science and Software Engineering Curricula. The ASEE

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Sample technical communication outcomes

Download A list that instructors may use and adapt to define communication outcomes for their own technical programs. From Burge, J. E., Anderson, P. V., Carter, M., Gannod, G. C., & Vouk, M. A. (2012). First Steps Toward Integrating Communication Instruction Throughout Computer Science and Software Engineering