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Presentation design in education: David Miller at TEDxUConn 2013

4,056 views · Published 21 October 2013 · 12:21 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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We've all sat through (and some of us have constructed) presentations in which projected graphics consist of seemingly endless bulleted lists of excessive text. Bullets "kill" and will usually annihilate engagement in course material as students struggle to blindly copy every word of onscreen text. Little if any learning occurs. 

Dr. Miller, a professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut, suggests an alternate strategy: to replace bullet points with multimedia. The downside of this approach is the significant amount of time involved in producing such material, but that is balanced with significant levels of student engagement and learning, which, after all, is one of education's primary goals.

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