Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Communicating Complex Information: Presenting Your Ideas Clearly and Effectively
Purdue University
In a time when experts are all too often ignored or misunderstood, communicating complex information accurately to inexperienced audiences is a prized skill. This course helped develop this skill. It explored specific strategies to get your ideas across in a more impactful way; discovering how to organise your messages, techniques for explaining abstract ideas, and how to use and create visuals to enhance understanding.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Melanie Morgan
Associate Professor of Communication
Purdue University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Present complex ideas to non-expert audiences
- Apply practices for organizing and explaining ideas orally
- Design presentation slides for improved audience understanding
- Investigate different methods to overcome the barriers that most audiences face when learning complex information
Syllabus
Course Topics
- Three different explanation models: quasi-scientific, transformation and elucidating
- Barriers to effective explanations including myths
- The importance of audience analysis in effectively communicating complex ideas
- Using analogies to explain abstract ideas
- Effective organization in oral presentations
- Infographics
- Creating organisational structures
- Producing charts which enhance audience understanding
Issued on 10th October 2017
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