
Master five comprehensive principles to captivate and educate your audience, transforming how you create and deliver presentations while keeping them engaged and inspired.
Discover tips and tools to revive your presentations, avoid death by PowerPoint, and reflect on your design intentions, drawing on skilled presenters, educators, and research into how we learn.
Limit on-screen objects to six to prevent cognitive overload per Mayer's theory, boost retention, and sharpen audience focus.
discover how to capture audience attention by using large, moving, and contrasting elements, and manage cognitive load by guiding focus with fade, color contrast, and shading boxes.
Highlight the cardinal sin of reading slides aloud; use dark backgrounds and high contrast, avoid the redundancy effect, rely on visuals with narration, and segment content into slides.
Master audience focus by balancing attention between you and the screen, limit slide objects to six, use dark backgrounds, and present information in short, digestible chunks to reduce cognitive load.
Learn to make PowerPoint do your bidding by using the animation pane to fade lines by paragraph, adjust contrast, and spotlight visuals with transparent boxes and sequence animations.
Learn to prevent cognitive load in presentations by limiting on-screen objects in Canva templates, guided by cognitive load theory, and explore related courses on innovative assessment, gamification, and design thinking.
"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.
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.