WFED 472Platform Skills for Workplace Learning and Performance

3 credits · Workforce Education and Development · Penn State

Platform skills focuses on theory and practice related to delivering well-crafted and effective training presentations. Platform skills are particularly critical in business, industry and technical education, as the content covered in these fields involves direct application of the cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning domains in real world situations. Therefore, the purpose of this course is to provide participants with the skills and abilities needed to develop and deliver high quality professional presentations within business, industry and applied educational settings. Through this highly dynamic and interactive course, students will enjoy using their creativity to successfully communicate important information through oral presentations. A major emphasis will be placed experiential teaching and learning techniques and theory to practice connections which will enable participants to develop and deliver well-crafted and effective training presentations, while having fun in the process.