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A Dark Side of Learning with Animation
A Dark Side of Learning with Animation
Continue reading the Original Blog PostStephen 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....