Comparison analysis of the online lecture formats of PowerPoint and Webpage for online students

Abstract

While many studies have been conducted on students’ experiences when comparing face- to-face teaching to online teaching, these have not focused solely on the delivery format. Many lectures have simply been placed online from the equivalent on-campus version and are in the PowerPoint format, and so do not use the online medium to its best advantage. This study will look at online students’ opinion of a PowerPoint lecture, a Webpage lecture and their comparison. This paper reports on the outcomes from two surveys taken by online students, enrolled through Open Universities Australia, studying an introductory Swinburne University IT unit. This study will evaluate the delivery format of the online learning lectures with the aim of improving the online learning material. The findings indicate that online students prefer Webpage to PowerPoint for text-based online lectures.