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REVIEW article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Digital Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1450222
Online Presentations for Instruction: An Overview
Provisionally accepted- 1Presentation Research Unit, Research Center for Science Communication,, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
- 2Independent researcher, Tübingen, Germany
- 3Institute for Educational Quality Improvement (IQB), Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- 4Institute for Educational Analysis (IBBW), Stuttgart, Germany
- 5Berlin School of Economics and Law, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Online presentations have become a cost-efficient and contemporary format for knowledge transfer. The associated competence is in demand at all levels of education and in many work contexts as presenting online contributes to educational and professional success. Despite its growing importance, it lacks a research-based overview regarding the definition, performance antecedents and recommendations how to foster online presentation competence. Based on an literature overview, a framework was developed to conceptualize online presentations and their underlying competence facets for instruction. According to this, presentation behavior and presentation performance in online settings is influenced by an interplay of the key factors consisting of (1) speaker's competence-constituting characteristics, (2) efforts to prepare and practice the presentation, (3) within-speaker processes, and (4) features of the setting. Future empirical studies should examine structure and validity of this framework in more detail. The educational focus on online presentations can be concluded that by deriving a research-based training approach that fit all levels of education and professional training. That intervention model can also serve as a starting point for more research on presentation training programs to promote online presentation competence to disseminate its application to diverse professional contexts such as business or healthcare.
Keywords: online presentation 1, presentation competence 2, education 3, online setting 4, video conference 5
Received: 21 Jun 2024; Accepted: 13 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ruth, Lipphardt, Schickel, Ruth-Herbein and Ringeisen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Fabian Ruth, Presentation Research Unit, Research Center for Science Communication,, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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