Multiplatform Delivery Skills

Catalog description

Platform skills for training delivery, including voice, audio-visual aids, and personal presence, in face-to-face and virtual environments. TRDEV 530 Multiplatform Delivery Skills (3) This highly participatory course is designed to provide students with the theoretical underpinnings of communication through presentation that will increase their capacity to flexibly convey content in ways that engage their audience in any modality - face to face, virtual, synchronous, and asynchronous. Within the context of solid communications theory, students will have opportunities to develop or strengthen a personal delivery style, applying theoretical constructs to accentuating their strengths. Through readings, discussion, critique of exemplars, practice presentations, and feedback, students will become facile with identifying theory in use, and develop the skills required to effectively deliver content. In the increasingly complex world, there is a persistent need for and value in face-to-face presentations and the skills required to produce and deliver them are paramount in a range of organizational circumstances including but not limited to what is considered formal training. Increasingly, these skills are being called into service to support content delivery in virtual settings, and although the basic approaches are consistent philosophically, these settings require special consideration. It is on this basis that the course is organized into three sections focused on 1) underpinning communications and cognitive theory, 2) application of theory to face-to-face presentations, 3) theoretical distinctions to support virtual environments, both synchronous and asynchronous.