PowerPoint has greatly changed the ways that professors teach in higher education classrooms. In
other words, PowerPoint has changed much of how professors engage their students and present
their subject matter. However, not all of these changes are necessarily positive. PowerPoint presentations
in academia have a reputation for being less than engaging in this era of learner-centered
teaching (Berk, 2012, p. 1). Young (2004) observes that even though PowerPoint is the most commonly
used visual presentation technology in college classrooms of today, it is also the most criticized
one by students; for instance, “students say some professors simply dump their notes into
PowerPoint presentations and then read them, which can make the delivery even flatter than it
would be if the professor did not use slides” (para. 17).