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A Dark Side of Learning with Animation

LPH

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LPH submitted a new blog post:

A Dark Side of Learning with Animation

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....
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