Acknowledgements

This book owes its existence to the incredible instructional team and group of authors who contributed to its content.

We are deeply grateful to the Academic Development Team at Mount Royal University for providing the resources necessary to make this project feasible, with special thanks to Christian Cook and Andrew Goodmanson.

Our sincere thanks also go to Nicolette Young and Tim Magee for their edits, support, and suggestions as instructional designers, Sandy Gough for her valuable edits, and Ethan Leong for formatting the book and importing content into Pressbooks. Your contributions were essential in bringing this project to life.

Furthermore, ChatGPT: Language Model (GPT-3.5), (https://chat.openai.com/), played a role in helping expand several chapters by offering communication-specific examples and also by assisting with the editing process in some places.

Moreover, the images that start each chapter were generated with the help of Microsoft 365 Create.

This book project was also supported by Mount Royal University Library in partnership with the University of Alberta through the Open Education Alberta project.

Photo credit: Caroline Damecour