C johnson presentationguidelines
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This document provides tips for engaging adult learners in online presentations. It recommends involving learners by sharing experiences, solving problems, and targeting the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor learning domains. It suggests respecting different learning styles like auditory, kinesthetic, and visual. The document also advises creating a sense of community online through interactions, discussions, polling, and collaborative activities. Finally, it notes the importance of variety and using multimedia elements to maintain attention in online instruction.
C johnson presentationguidelines
- 1. Variety, the Spice of Life A Guide to Keeping Adult Learners Interested in Your Online Presentation
- 2. Keep the learner in mind Remember that adults prefer to: • be involved in their learning • share their experiences • solve problems
- 3. Remember that learning falls into three domains you can target: knowing/head (cognitive) feeling/heart (affective) doing/hands (psychomotor)
- 4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- 7. Remember to respect different learning styles, especially the common: • auditory • kinesthetic/tactile • visual
- 8. Engage the learner When presenting online, you lose the sense of “community” a room provides. You can create it in virtual space by meeting, interacting with, and collaborating with learners, just as in a classroom!
- 9. Technology need not stop you from “meeting” learners by: • breaking the ice • telling personal stories • encouraging discussion with you and among learners (done by enabling chat features)
- 10. Technology can aid you in interacting with your learners, using features such as: • polling • hand-raising • whiteboard* (plus old-school probing questions!) *merely a “digital chalkboard” or “electronic flipchart”)
- 11. Technology enables collaboration among learners separated by time or space. Use tried-and-true activities like: • document sharing • completing group exercises • making group decisions • solving problems as a group
- 12. Keep the ‘setting’ in mind A few final notes about online instruction: • attention wanes at 4 minutes • learners still appreciate handouts (even in digital format, such as PDF) • use audio, text, graphics, animation, video, hyperlinks, and more – because …
- 13. Variety is the spice of life! Watch Salman Kahn of Kahn Academy discuss the power of video in education.