文档介绍：Engineering students opinions on the use of PowerPoint presentations in a lecture environment
Aidan O’Dwyer,
School of Electrical Engineering Systems, DIT Kevin St., Dublin 8.
E-mail: aidan.******@
Paper type: Practitioner paper.
Abstract:
There is increasing emphasis placed on the electronic delivery of lecture material, typically by means of PowerPoint presentations. This is driven by investment in the required IT equipment, the use of online environments and the reduction, in engineering, in class contact hours. Despite these driving factors, the educational benefits of using PowerPoint in lectures has not been analysed in detail in the engineering education literature; many authors in this literature are content with providing tips for effective PowerPoint presentations, avoiding ‘death by PowerPoint’(. Winn, 2003; Felder and Brent, 2005). In particular, surveys of engineering student perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of a lecturing approach that uses PowerPoint for a substantial part of the lecture material, compared to a more traditional lecturing approach using a blackboard or an overhead projector, are absent. There exists some analysis in the wider educational literature of the perceptions of (typically) liberal arts students obtained using structured surveys (Szabo and Hastings, 2000; Susskind, 2005; Apperson et al., 2006, 2008).
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