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Planning for Lectures/Presentations
Time is magnified in an online course, so for the benefit of your students—especially adult learners who have work, soccer practice for the kids, groceries, and other Life Matters on their plates—you will want to ensure that every bit of lecture content is intentional and meaningful. Of course, you have far more knowledge and understanding of the subject than most of your students will, but you will really need to separate the must-know from the good-to-know and save the latter for other learning activities that follow the presentation. Your students will be more likely to retain the essential information and be better able to pursue the auxiliary information outside of the lecture if they have experienced active participation in the lecture content.
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PLEASE GO: In the following YouTube video, Oscar Retterer of Franklin and Marshall College discusses four stages for creating effective multimedia presentations: plan, produce, practice, and present: Principles of Effective Presentations (9:06 min.)
Designing for Lectures/Presentations
In his book Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina suggests the following lecture design (in the book, the design was written for face-to-face classrooms, but the ideas can apply to the online environment):
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Chickering, A. W., & Gamson, Z. F. (1987). Seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. American Association of Higher Education Bulletin, 39(7), 3-7. Retrieved from http://teaching.uncc.edu/articles-books/best-practice-articles/instructional-methods/7-principles
Chua, S. (2009). Remote presentations that rock. [Slide presentation] Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/sachac/7-tips-for-remote-presentations-that-rock
FacilitadorTube (Producer). (2010, February 2). E-Learning: How to Deliver an Engaging Virtual Classroom Presentation. [Video] Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxY22IhbaH4
Lambert, C. (2012, March-April). Twilight of the lecture. Harvard Magazine, March-April 2012, 23-27. Retrieved from http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/03/twilight-of-the-lecture
Martyn, M. (2009). Engaging lecture capture...Lights, Camera...Interaction! Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/engaging-lecture-capture-lights-camera-interaction
Medina, J. (2013). Attention. Retrieved from http://www.brainrules.net/attention/?scene=1
Medina, J. (2009). Brain Rules. Seattle, WA: Pear Press.
Nielsen, C. (2008). Building better PowerPoint presentations. Retrieved from http://www.nnu.edu/fileadmin/Elearning/ELS/BestPractices_PPT.pdf
Pickett, A. M. (n.d.). Fifty alternatives to lecture. Retrieved from https://edocs.uis.edu/boakl1/www/FiftyAlternativesToLecture.html
Retterer, O. (Producer). (2009, November 19). Principles of Effective Presentations. [Video] Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxR8lh9riFg
Reynolds, G. (2008). Brain rules for presenters. [Slide presentation] Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/garr/brain-rules-for-presenters
Reynolds, G. (2005). Top ten slide tips. Retrieved from http://www.garrreynolds.com/Presentation/slides.html
Richardson, D. (2008). Don’t dump the didactic lecture: Fix it. Advances in Physiology Education, 32(1), 23-24.
Examples of Lectures/Presentations
Example 1
Lecture/Presentation from UF100 Intellectual Foundations Course at Boise State University
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Example 2
Lecture/Presentation from Engineering 100 Course at Boise State University
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