Do Lecture Pace and PowerPoint Detail Affect Students' Comprehension of and Memory for a PowerPoint-Assisted Lecture?
Date
2009-01-30Metadata
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Research on the effectiveness of PowerPoint as an aid to leacture presentations is rarely guided by cognitive theory. However, Mayer's cognitive theory of multimedia learning is well-suited to guide the design of PowerPoint presentations and generating predictions about the effects of those presentatins on learners. This experiment tested the effects of either a fast or slow lecture accompanied by either a detailed or outlined PowerPoint display of the information.
Subject
Teaching--Audio-visual aids
Media programs (Education)--Evaluation
Posters
Audio-visual education--Evaluation
Learning, Psychology of
Computer-assisted instruction--Evaluation
Microsoft PowerPoint (Computer file)--Educational aspects
Learning--Audio-visual aids