Research on technology enhanced learning?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

The discourse about teaching seems to be dominated recently by the idea of technology enhanced learning. I have been talking a lot with colleagues about that and there seems to be some kind of consensus that the usage of technology is most of the times beneficial.

It also seems that many take this route in order to make their lectures interesting and load the with interesting "stuff" (animations, videos, etc).

I am very sceptical about this and I am kind of worried that making lectures "too interesting" can be a problem. I tend to think that students need to pace themselves and if you drag them along your lecture they end up remembering nothing.

Is there any serious research done on this? Do we understand the effects that fast-paced interesting lectures have on learning? Is there any research-based list of good and bad practices?