It's a fact: people have a finite attention span. Your students have a finite attention span. Are your PowerPoint presentations helping student grasp the course content? A traditional bullet-point layout may not be the best way to go.
Chris Atherton, senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Central Lancashire at Preston in the UK, developed this PowerPoint to demonstrate a different and possibly more effective way of presenting information. This type of presentation would work especially well in distance courses.
For more information, check out Chris Atherton's blog, finiteattentionspan.wordpress.com.
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