Higher Education Teaching and Learning

The 2024 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envision

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For more than 30 years, the TED conference series has presented enlightening talks that people enjoy watching. In this article, Anderson, TED’s curator, shares five keys to great presentations: Frame your story (figure out where to start and where to end). Plan your delivery (decide whether to memorize your speech word for word or develop bullet points and then rehearse it—over and over). Work on stage presence (but remember that your story matters more than how you stand or whether you’re visibly nervous). Plan the multimedia (whatever you do, don’t read from PowerPoint slides). Put it together (play to your strengths and be authentic). According to Anderson, presentations rise or fall on the quality of the idea, the narrative, and the passion of the speaker. It’s about substance—not style. In fact, it’s fairly easy to “coach out” the problems in a talk, but there’s no way to “coach in” the basic story—the presenter has to have the raw material. So if your thinking is not there yet, he advises, decline that invitation to speak. Instead, keep working until you have an idea that’s worth sharing.

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Indigenous students in some outback Australian communities are thriving in an educational environment where local culture is respected. Incorporating Indigenous culture into the curriculum is setting Indigenous students up for success in remote Indigenous schools. With figures showing that Indigenous students tend to experience poorer educational outcomes, a new study has shown that having a …

Two educators I met as they were participants in case studies that crosses my desk recently are adherents to learning styles. This is the widely-held but false belief that individuals have preferre…