1.1 Leaving an impression
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Transcript
Martin Bean
There is fantastic face-to-face learning, and there is lousy face-to-face learning or teaching. There is fantastic online distance education, and there is lousy online distance education. What should our goal be as we all consider opening ourselves up in digital spaces? Quite simply, as it always should have been. It has to be about great teaching. But if those students have never known a world without digital being part of their life, then shame on us if we think we can sit still, put our head in the sands and deliver a teaching experience for them that not only doesn't map to the world that they live in, doesn't map to the jobs and prosperity we wish for them and their families for the generations ahead.
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Quite convincing, isn’t he? But how exactly does he do it? Would you like to be able to talk like Martin Bean, former Vice-Chancellor of The Open University?
Over the next few weeks you will discover the ingredients needed to give effective presentations that leave a lasting impression on your audience. You will watch and analyse presentations, and you will prepare and give one yourself. Are you up for it?