Communicating Complex Information: Presenting Your Ideas Clearly and Effectively (FutureLearn)

What topics will you cover?

- Three different explanation models: quasi-scientific, transformation and elucidating

- Barriers to effective explanations including myths

- The importance of audience analysis in effectively communicating complex ideas

- Using analogies to explain abstract ideas.

- Effective organization in oral presentations

- Infographics.

- Creating organisational structures.

- Producing charts which enhance audience understanding.

What will you achieve?

By the end of this course you will be able to:

- Use different methods to overcome the barriers that most audiences face when learning complex information

- Apply practices for organizing and explaining ideas orally

- Design presentation slides for improved audience understanding

- Communicate complex ideas or material to various audiences.