Audience Demographics
Audience Demographics are the characteristics of listeners like age, gender, cultural backgrounds, group affiliations and educational level. The speaker has to consider all these characteristics when adapting to an audience.
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open educational resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely available for anyone to use, adapt, and redistribute. OER include textbooks, course materials, videos, lesson plans, and assessments released under open licenses such as Creative Commons. The OER movement aims to reduce barriers to quality education by making materials accessible regardless of geography or financial means. Organizations and universities worldwide contribute to and maintain large repositories of OER.
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Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are large-scale online courses accessible to anyone with an internet connection, often free of charge. MOOCs are delivered through platforms such as Coursera, edX, or Udemy and can attract thousands of learners simultaneously. They typically combine video lectures, readings, quizzes, and discussion forums. MOOCs have democratized access to university-level education and professional skill development worldwide.
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Screen presentation
A screen presentation refers to a presentation delivered entirely via a computer or device screen, without a physical projection setup. It is common in video calls, webinars, and remote meetings where the presenter shares their screen with participants. Screen presentations place greater emphasis on slide clarity, font size, and content structure, since the audience views content on varying screen sizes. They are increasingly the dominant format as remote and hybrid work has grown.
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