Public Speaking, an NPTEL Course (IIT Roorkee)

About this course

The NPTEL course on public speaking from IIT Roorkee: sixty lectures on how to plan, deliver and analyse speeches, presentations and interviews. Taught in English. Who it's for: College students and working professionals who want to speak with confidence in front of an audience. These are the free, official videos of the "Public Speaking" playlist from the IIT Roorkee July 2018 YouTube channel (youtube.com/@iitroorkeejuly). All videos belong to IIT Roorkee (NPTEL). Neither Sayaji Spoken English Centre nor Sikhami is affiliated with IIT Roorkee (NPTEL); the public playlist is arranged here as a course, so you can learn one lesson at a time and keep track of your progress.

What you will learn

• The communication process, rhetoric, listening and ethics • Audience awareness, credibility, and creating and organising content • Fear of speaking (glossophobia), positivity and personality • Non-verbal communication: proxemics, haptics and meta-communication • Speeches, elocution, classroom lectures, negotiations and conference presentations • Interviews, leadership skills, and oral presentations with visual aids

Course content

1 section · 56 lectures · 34h 39m

1. 1. Public Speaking

   • Public Speaking6m
   • Lecture 01: Introduction to Public Speaking43m
   • Lecture 02: Communication Process and Roadblocks46m
   • Lecture 03: Use of Rhetoric in Public Speaking36m
   • Lecture 04: Role of Listening in Public Speaking38m
   • Lecture 05: Role of Ethics in Public Speaking35m
   • Lecture 06: Relevance of Public Speaking39m
   • Lecture 07: Audience Awareness and Creating Credibility40m
   • Lecture 08: Content Creation and Organization32m
   • Lecture 09: Role of Personality in Public Speaking39m
   • Lecture 10: Use of Technology in Public Speaking44m
   • Lecture 11: Cultural Awareness in Public Speaking43m
   • Lecture 12: Breaking the Ice: Impress to Express44m
   • Lecture 13: Glossophobia36m
   • Lecture 14: Emotional Intelligence36m
   • Lecture 15: Role of Positivity in Public Speaking40m
   • Lecture 16: Significance of Citations in Public Speaking36m
   • Lecture 17: Digression: Usage and Concerns34m
   • Lecture 18: Forms and Stages of Public Speaking: Part I35m
   • Lecture 19: Forms and Stages of Public Speaking: Part II33m
   • Lecture 20: Classroom Interaction33m
   • Lecture 21: Classroom Lectures35m
   • Lecture 22: Kinesics37m
   • Lecture 23: Proxemics35m
   • Lecture 24: Chronemics36m
   • Lecture 25: Haptics33m
   • Lecture 26: Paralanguage35m
   • Lecture 27: Meta-communication33m
   • Lecture 28: Conversation43m
   • Lecture 29: Negotiations38m
   • Lecture 30: Debates32m
   • Lecture 31: Elocution and Recitation39m
   • Lecture 32: Group Discussion39m
   • Lecture 33: Speeches36m
   • Lecture 34: Types of Speeches38m
   • Lecture 35: Speeches for Special Occasions35m
   • Lecture 36: Use of Humour in Speeches38m
   • Lecture 37: Interviews36m
   • Lecture 38: Types of Interviews - I32m
   • Lecture 39: Types of Interviews - II40m
   • Lecture 40: Preparing for Interviews36m
   • Lecture 41: Facing the Interview39m
   • Lecture 42: Conference Presentations: Part I34m
   • Lecture 43: Conference Presentations: Part II35m
   • Lecture 44: Meeting Management36m
   • Lecture 45: Leadership Skills: Part I36m
   • Lecture 46: Leadership Skills: Part II41m
   • Lecture 47: Oral Presentation: Part I39m
   • Lecture 48: Oral Presentation: Part II45m
   • Lecture 49: Use of Visual Aids in Oral Presentation34m
   • Lecture 50: Use of Connectives in Oral Presentation34m
   • Lecture 56: Online Interactions and their Challenges40m
   • Lecture 57: Sample Interviews29m
   • Lecture 58: Analysis of Sample Interviews35m
   • Lecture 59: Sample Speeches and their Analysis42m
   • Lecture 60: Summary and Conclusion38m