The introduction of PowerPoint presentation software has generated a paradigm shift in the delivery of lectures. PowerPoint has now almost entirely replaced chalkboard or whiteboard teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This study investigated whether undergraduate biology students preferred to have lectures delivered by PowerPoint or written on the board as well as the reasons beh...

THE PROBLEM WITH POWERPOINT There is nothing more frustrating than sitting through a presentation bombarded by slide after slide of small text, difficult to read graphs, irrelevant clip art images, and poorly designed templates. Often to blame is the use and abuse of PowerPoint1 (e.g., Tufte, 2003; Bumiller, 2010). Academics typically only endure weak PowerPoint presentations at conferences, wh...

PowerPoint is a ubiquitous multimedia authoring tool that is widely used in education for in-class presentations and the distribution of course materials; however a common complaint is that it is linear and noninteractive thus does not enhance learning. Although the research literature describes methods of improving interactivity in PowerPoint such as the use of quizzes, there is a dearth of st...

Studies have demonstrated that students prefer PowerPoint and respond favorably to classes when it is used. Few studies have addressed the physical structure of PowerPoint. In this study, students enrolled in several psychology classes on two campuses completed a 36 item questionnaire regarding their preferences for the use of PowerPoint in the classroom. Students preferred the use of key phras...

MultiPoint is a speech and pen user interface for building presentations, implemented as an add-on to Microsoft PowerPoint. We compared users’ satisfaction and performance between building presentations with MultiPoint and with PowerPoint. We also compared participants’ performance and reactions between using Wizard of Oz (WOz) speech recognition and computer speech recognition. In aggregate, m...

In recent years, PowerPoint presentations have become the medium of choice for high school and college educators. Research on images in these presentations has determined that relevant diagrams and graphics improve learning in science and engineering fields; however, there has been little research on images in the humanities, where diagrams are less common. This study first surveyed college stu...

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