Stephen Mahar and team found a marked difference in average student performance with those seeing animated and non-animated Mcrosoft lecture slides.
Students watching non-animated slides performed better in tests than those who watched the animated lecture.
Students preferred watching the animated slides.
Students watching non-animated slides recalled details of the static graphics much better than those watching animated slides.
The study applied only to the teaching of new concepts.
These researchers concluded that animated slides meant to present information incrementally actually required greater concentration, which made it harder to remember content, as well as reduced overall exposure time to the “complete” slide.
Hmm, this looks like a good reference for learning researchers to reference while formulating further studies in the proposed Childrens Center for Research on Mobile Learning.
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