According to Dr. John Medina, author of Brain Rules, adding relevant pictures to your lecture increases retention 6.5 times versus just an oral presentation. This stunning increase in efficacy doesn't ...

Practice makes perfect when it comes to making PowerPoint presentations for students. PowerPoint presentations can be a useful tool for presenting the information. It can foster student learning and ...

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Uncertain Chad is, well, uncertain, about how best to deal with two competing ideals when using Powerpoint (or Keynote) for lecture classes. On the one hand, nobody likes a cluttered slide. In science ...

Any university teacher who does not harbour a painful recollection of a failed lecture is a liar. On one such occasion, I felt early on that I had lost the students entirely: those who hadn’t sunk ...