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Golden rules to help participants focus
Golden rules to help participants focus
It is an art to reduce the course to the most important concepts and to give participants an orientation to the content.
Important considerations:
The content must be reduced to the most important facts.
The content must be chosen to be geared to the target group. It is unnecessary to define every term for advanced learners. However, for beginners, an introduction or an overview of the most important terms might be very helpful.
Summaries and highlighting of exam-relevant facts especially help our participants shortly before an exam.
Do not show too much information on the slides at the same time. The participants' attention should always be guided so that they can follow what is being explained without their attention wandering off.
Let's look at a few examples
Let's look at a few examples
Consider whether to emphasize facts that are particularly relevant to the exam. If the target group is known, one also knows, for example, what is particularly important in the exam. Highlighting helps the participants to focus on the most essential things. Such emphasis should be limited to the most important facts.
Do:
The label ‘High-yield’ applies to content for medical students. This label is a marking on slides that are particularly relevant to the exam.
The participants' attention should always be guided.
Do:
On this slide, participants see an overview of the three points, which will be reviewed step-by-step in later slides. Because some of the key points are not yet visible, the participants can focus on the relevant content.
The participants' attention should always be guided.
Do:
Here, the key points are displayed one after the other. The illustrative icons are already visible, however. This approach is useful because associations can be awakened in participants and simple images can be captured more quickly than text can.
Do:
Sometimes it is useful to show short text sections such as this one not all at once but step-by-step...
...to help participants peruse the material.
...to help the lecturer explain a concept in the correct order, in an orderly fashion.
The label ‘Clinical pearl’ marks information from the lecturer that reflects the lecturer's personal experience. Thus, participants can also better distinguish exactly what they should learn for the exam. The ‘Clinical pearl’ label applies to content for medical students.
Don't: Be careful not to use too many symbols at the same time. This can quickly become cryptic, and participants will not notice all the symbols.
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