Design of an Environment for Developing Presentation Skills

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhisa Seta;Mitsuru Ikeda

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Sciences, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan;School of Knowledge Science, JAIST, Japan, seta@mi.s.osakafu-u.ac.jp, ikeda@jaist.ac.jp

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Learning by Effective Utilization of Technologies: Facilitating Intercultural Understanding
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Presentation plays an important role in transmitting one's opinion and encouraging collaborative knowledge creation and decision-making processes. A key to producing persuasive presentation materials is to perform meta-cognitive activities well, but that is difficult for novice learners of presentation tasks. Furthermore, from the system-development viewpoint, it is difficult to develop a learning system with which learners can develop their presentation skills effectively because the cognitive activities in presentation task are typically not clarified. In this paper, we first present a cognitive model of the user who performs presentation task. We then overview two kinds of designed environments based on that model: one is for producing presentation materials that encourage learners to perform meta-cognitive activities; the other is a collaborative learning environment in presentation rehearsal, which encourages the transfer of context-dependent meta-cognitive knowledge among learning partners.