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A Novel Mobile Application for Training Oral Presentation Delivery Skills

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Technology in Education. Technology-Mediated Proactive Learning (ICTE 2015)

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Oral presentation is one of the most desirable soft-skills of university graduates. One proven way to train oral presentation is to put students through authentic presentation sessions and facilitate them to improve through feedbacks from their peers, teachers, and self-observation. However, such authentic situations with real audience and genuine high-stakes objectives are not frequent due to the difficulty to holding one. This paper presents a self-regulated mobile learning approach of training oral presentation. A mobile application with feedback functions will allow presenters to practice certain elements of effective presentation that do not require authentic training. A mobile application called PresentMate was developed for the evaluation of this approach. The mobile application can provide instant or delayed feedback on timing, body motion, and voice level to the user. The user can practice at any place and at any time to improve presentation skills based on consideration of the feedback. A preliminary survey indicated that this approach is viable and a number of suggestions on enhancing the design are given in the paper.

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  1. School of Science and Technology, The Open University of Hong Kong, Ho Man Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Andrew Kwok-Fai Lui, Sin-Chun Ng & Wing-Wah Wong

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  1. HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education, pokfulam, Hong Kong

    Jeanne Lam

  2. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong

    Kwan Keung Ng

  3. The Open University of Hong Kong, Homantin, Hong Kong

    Simon K.S. Cheung

  4. The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Tai Po, Hong Kong

    Tak Lam Wong

  5. The Open University of Hong Kong, Homantin, Hong Kong

    Kam Cheong Li

  6. Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong

    Fu Lee Wang

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Lui, A.KF., Ng, SC., Wong, WW. (2015). A Novel Mobile Application for Training Oral Presentation Delivery Skills. In: Lam, J., Ng, K., Cheung, S., Wong, T., Li, K., Wang, F. (eds) Technology in Education. Technology-Mediated Proactive Learning. ICTE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 559. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48978-9_8

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