Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Multimedia Learning
Exploiting and transferring presentational knowledge assets in R&D organizations
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
PowerPoint Multimedia Presentations in Computer Science Education: What Do Users Need?
USAB '08 Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for Education and Work
A study of the effect of instructional media in an undergraduate electrical circuits course
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
The study on integrating WebQuest with mobile learning for environmental education
Computers & Education
Slide presentations as speech suppressors: When and why learners miss oral information
Computers & Education
A study on the mediation of students' activities by digital material
Proceedings of the 30th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics
Teachers' perceptions of the value of research-based school lectures
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop in Primary and Secondary Computing Education
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We investigated whether students liked and learned more from PowerPoint presentations than from overhead transparencies. Students were exposed to lectures supported by transparencies and two different types of PowerPoint presentations. At the end of the semester, students preferred PowerPoint presentations but this preference was not found on ratings taken immediately after the lectures. Students performed worse on quizzes when PowerPoint presentations included non-text items such as pictures and sound effects. A second study further examined these findings. In this study participants were shown PowerPoint slides that contained only text, contained text and a relevant picture, and contained text with a picture that was not relevant. Students performed worse on recall and recognition tasks and had greater dislike for slides with pictures that were not relevant. We conclude that PowerPoint can be beneficial, but material that is not pertinent to the presentation can be harmful to students' learning.