Presentation Design
The Backward Design Process
As established previously, the core steps for presentation design using this approach are:
- Identify Desired results
- What participants should know, understand and be able to do
- Determine acceptable evidence
- Identify the process by which you can establish that participants have achieved desired results
- Plan learning experiences and instruction
- Build content to guide participants through the learning experience
- Create active learning content where possible to promote reflection and meta-cognition
This is not necessarily a linear process - more an organizing framework than a prescription, so goals and objectives could change as you go. Formulation may start at any stage of the process and clarification in one stage might inform changes to another stage.
You might be thinking that most of your presentations that are given during a grand rounds or noon conference don't involve assessment, so that doesn't apply to you. Well, that is an easy way out, but it doesn't tell you anything about the effectiveness of those presentations. The section on linking objectives to outcomes will provide more detail, but in general, you have at your disposal a much better way to measure outcomes than a test, reflective statement, or a "willingness to change" rating [all reasonable indirect methods to assess learning). In the professional environment, you have performance measures.
Feel free to use this template and example:
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