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Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes

Posted August 16th, 2009 by ellenfinkl
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august 11 2009
This talk explain best practices for using PowerPoint in an educational and training environment, bsaed on the research that has been done in the field. (A list of references follows the handout.)

Topics covered are:
Why reading from slides is detrminental to learning
The damaging effect of unnecessary images
The solution
Points from Multimedia Learning by Richard E. Mayer
Research showing that animating text line by line is not helpful to learning
How to create clear graphs/charts
How to show data visually
Why business presentations are different from academic presentations
The importance of notetaking and how to encourage it
How to deal with the drop in attention after 10-15 minutes
Fonts and legibility



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Presented at Maharishi University of Management on August 11, 2009


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