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Dear colleagues,

I am teaching a MBA level OB course online and am kicking around some ways to assess verbal fluency in an online course platform.  For our purposes, verbal fluency is captured in such things as being concise, clear, and expressive in speech while using vocabulary appropriate for the audience.  Beyond that, I am also interested in how others assign presentations in on online setting and any best practices you have found in student delivery of those presentations.  

I have some thoughts but would love to hear from others.  If you have sample assignments or syllabi that outline how you have done it, please forward them along to me (lancefrazier@creighton.edu).  I can also share the information I gather with anyone interested.  

Thank you in advance!!

Lance Frazier 

If your school has zoom or adobe connect (or even skype if necessary) you can have the students actually present their papers (have several synchronous meetings where they have to show up at at least one). With Zoom you can record that (can't remember about the other two). Then, presuming you can record them, classmates can view the videos and comment asynchronously if they weren't present, synchronously if they were.

If they are required to have a way to record video you could require them to video them giving the presentation and upload it to youtube, giving a link in the class so others can see the presentations.

I will actually have them do that using zoom in a doctoral course I am designing. In zoom they can show the desktop of their computer in the zoom window and so we can see their power points while hearing them talk. I can record the "meeting". Many people can be logged into the "meeting" at once. I will schedule several "meetings" at different times and they will be required to present at one of them, attend at least one other one besides the one they are presenting at. Will be time consuming for me that week, but I don't see how else to do this since I can't require them to all be present at once, and it will take time for each to do a 10 min presentation with questions afterwards.

Carolyn

Carolyn