The Science of PowerPoint Overload

Richard E. Mayer researched about how the brain learns and what the best way to present something is. People process information either visually or verbally but not both, limited capacity. We can only take in so much information at a time, active processing. Slides with bullet points are too much on a screen since the brain takes long to organize everything in their head. Therefore you shouldn’t put too much on a screen and instead describe the content. More work is required to make an understandable and good presentation. If your slides only have words, put pictures. Don’t repeat what’s written. Erase unnecessary things. KEEP IT SIMPLE.