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Someone says,” if you don’t strike oil in 15 minutes then stop boring”. This means is to give an oral presentation that will grab audience attention in the workplace and in educational settings. The assessment of oral presentation comes in a form of different formats, from the multimedia projects to the group work to speeches. An oral presentation is about simply explaining your personal point of view to eh audience and tries to convince them of your viewpoint. In the classroom or any competition on oral presentation, teachers or judges grade these oral presentations based on the quality of the …

The University Libraries at Grand Valley State University successfully advocated for inclusion of the 'Experiences with Information Literacy' module in our Winter 2016 administration of NSSE, the National Survey of Student Engagement. Overall, summary responses for our participating students compared positively to the aggregate means for all participating Large Public institutions in the same cohort. However, further analysis of responses broken out by individual colleges within the university revealed an interesting picture of students in GVSU's College of Engineering & Computing, perhaps indicating that their educational experience at GVSU is qualitatively different from that of their peers in other academic …

In this paper, we describe a two-year study of the factors influencing freshman and first-year transfer student enrollment at the College of Computing and Digital Media (CDM) at DePaul University. Our results show that the reputation of the institution, the particular degree programs at DePaul CDM, and to a lesser degree the diversity of degree programs available, were all positive factors for application and enrollment at DePaul. Factors that were not of primary importance included parental influence, the fact that DePaul is a liberal arts institution, and recommendations from relatives and friends.