I don't know. I've had some great lecturers deliver stuff via PowerPoint, and because I wasn't concentrating on dotting the is and crossing the ts of the equations, I could make copious notes around them and truly absorb them. My experiences learning from maths professors with terrible handwriting on OHPs (oh yes! there was a world before PPT!) were universally terrible, so perhaps I'm biased. Watching e.g. the Game Theory 101 lectures from Yale online makes me realise some lecturers actually seem to engage with written material...
I tended to take separate notes on paper alongside the slides and annotate slides, to get over the active learning go-to-sleep problem. Also, a bonus of bad lecturers and Powerpoint handouts is you don't need to turn up once you've sussed the first lecture.
One course that worked quite well for me had a handbook (so no scribbling, but no falling asleep) and the lecturer used very little in the way of visual aids. I wonder if that goes hand in hand with him being the best lecturer I had in terms of engagement and charisma...
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I don't know. I've had some great lecturers deliver stuff via PowerPoint, and because I wasn't concentrating on dotting the is and crossing the ts of the equations, I could make copious notes around them and truly absorb them. My experiences learning from maths professors with terrible handwriting on OHPs (oh yes! there was a world before PPT!) were universally terrible, so perhaps I'm biased. Watching e.g. the Game Theory 101 lectures from Yale online makes me realise some lecturers actually seem to engage with written material...
I tended to take separate notes on paper alongside the slides and annotate slides, to get over the active learning go-to-sleep problem. Also, a bonus of bad lecturers and Powerpoint handouts is you don't need to turn up once you've sussed the first lecture.
One course that worked quite well for me had a handbook (so no scribbling, but no falling asleep) and the lecturer used very little in the way of visual aids. I wonder if that goes hand in hand with him being the best lecturer I had in terms of engagement and charisma...