Comments on: PowerPoint “ The King of eLearning Tools?

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:57:57 +0000

PowerPoint is a storyboarding and speaker-notes tool, not e-learning. I don’t hate it. I don’t love it. It’s good, within its limits.

For me, e-learning must include interactivity/decision making; otherwise, it’s a lecture. It amazes me how many people in our profession still call a deck “e-learning.” Ugh.

By: Shanath

Shanath — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:01:16 +0000

I have not been either for or against PPT. Infact I believed on “Death by Pwerpoint”. I think it is just a tool or a techonology and is neither good nor bad by itself. It is the way we use it makes it so. And PPT, like any other tool need not be everything to everybody. PPT may be good for some uses, not so good for some. It is definitely about being a good Instructional Designer. If you can make the elephants dance with the PPTs, then you are a good musician or a choreographer.

By: Andrew Chambers

Andrew Chambers — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 02:28:07 +0000

This is all dependent on your underpinning elearning framework. We teach distance based business classes to several hundred graduate students. There is very little use of PowerPoint. Instead we use academic readings (including HBR type material), texts, course notes and discussion activities. There is little place for Powerpoint in such a scenario. Except when combined with webinars or tools such as Voicethread. The main problem with Powerpoint is that the Powerpoint by itself contains a lot less material than an average course reading. It is basically only good for summarising. Without the commentary and discussion around its content it is nothing…

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By: Bruce Fern

Bruce Fern — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:59:20 +0000

One of the main benefits of well designed elearning is answer-judging and pathing: get an answer wrong and the learning is repathed for the learner personally so he/she can get a grip on the concept before moving on.

I am not aware of any answer judging capabilities of PPT. Sure, you can say here is the question, here is the answer, if you got it wrong go to slide 7 for a better understanding, but that is learner directed, not system directed.

Anyone know of something about PPT that can assess learner responses?

By: Chas Martin

Chas Martin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:09:46 +0000

It’s possible to do horrible things with great tools like Flash, Captivate and many other expensive tools. And, it’s possible to go great things with tools like PPT. I lean toward the former when I have access to great programmers. I make do with PPT when I cannot. But, all tools are limited by their handler. Templates, endless bullets and cheesy graphics are deadly on any platform. If content is king, then the power behind the throne is knowing how to engage imagination, how to hold attention, how to demonstrate a point, how to turn information into communication.
Follow this for an example of PPT in a non-standard application. http://www.innovativeye.com/ideacycles-online-course/
Another tool which combines mind mapping with presentation (new and somewhat limited from what I’ve seen so far) is Prezi.com. It’s worth exploring.

By: Suzann Connell

Suzann Connell — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:07:35 +0000

You haven’t read Edward Tufte?

According to him, PowerPoint has no place in eLearning. In fact, his research provides us with insight that PowerPoint diminishes learning – instead of cognitive stimulation – PowerPoint equals cognitive sedation.

–Suzann

See this link for more information:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint

By: Shelley Gable

Shelley Gable — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:05:34 +0000

I’m a fan of storyboarding in PPT. If you avoid the preset templates and start with a blank slate (like you might with most other tools), you can create pretty much any look and feel you want. And like you mentioned, it’s really easy to use.