Key skills and tools for making your presentations engaging and effective.

What you will learn

Master Engaging Content Delivery: Acquire skills to deliver captivating content, ensuring memorable and effective presentations.

Transform with Expertise: Harness the skills and insights of a Highly Accomplished educator to elevate your presentations from standard to exceptional.

Avoid ‘Death by PowerPoint’: Discover techniques to keep presentations lively and engaging, steering clear of monotonous and overloaded slides.

Boost Information Retention: Learn methods to structure and present content that maximizes audience understanding and long-term retention.

Apply Cognitive Load Theory: Utilize cognitive load principles for clearer, more digestible presentations.

Description

“Welcome to ‘Power Up Your Presentations: Beyond Death by PowerPoint’. Crafted by a highly-awarded and experienced educator with deep insights in learning and cognitive psychology, this course unveils five key principles for delivering captivating presentations. It’s an antidote to the dreaded ‘death by PowerPoint’ experience, whether you’ve endured monotonous lectures or delivered them to an unresponsive audience.

This course is designed to be accessible and beneficial for all audiences, regardless of their experience with PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The principles taught are versatile, applicable across any platform, scenario, or content type. Participants will delve into the art of creating effective and cognitively appealing slides, and mastering audience engagement.

Understanding the psychology behind audience engagement, cognitive load theory and information retention is a cornerstone of this course. It empowers participants to structure content that not only captures attention but also fosters deep understanding. This course is ideal for educators, business professionals, students, and anyone eager to elevate their presentation skills.


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By the end of this course, participants will have a practical toolkit and the confidence to apply these skills in any setting. Enrol now to transform your presentations into engaging, lively experiences, steering clear of the dreaded ‘death by PowerPoint’.”

If you like this course or want to learn more about cognitive load and learning psychology see my other course on multimedia learning.

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Content

Intro – About this Course

Welcome to the Course

Getting Into it.

Prologue: Avoiding Death By Powerpoint
Chapter 1: Objects & Cognitive Load
Chapter 2: Getting Attention
Chapter 3: The Cardinal Sins or Presenters
Epilogue: The Summary
Appendix: Making PowerPoint Do Your Bidding.

Closing remarks

Final Comments and Recommendations