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A Comparative Investigation of Student Learning through PechaKucha Presentations in Online Higher Education

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The purpose of this study was to determine if using student recorded PechaKucha™ 20 × 20 presentations as an assignment in an online classroom yielded equivalent student learning compared to a similar written assignment. Twenty-one (15 women and 6 men) online graduate students participated in a mixed-method study using online surveys with a quasi-experimental design. While it was determined that student learning was similar regardless of assignment type (t(20) = 1.481, p = .154), the study revealed benefits of using recorded PechaKucha presentations, including increased content engagement and increased student enjoyment.
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A Comparative Investigation of Student Learning
through PechaKucha Presentations in Online
Higher Education
James S. Ave
1
&Devin Beasley
2
&Amy Brogan
1
#Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine if using student recorded PechaKucha™20 ×
20 presentations as an assignment in an online classroom yielded equivalent student
learning compared to a similar written assignment. Twenty-one (15 women and 6 men)
online graduate students participated in a mixed-method study using online surveys with
a quasi-experimental design. While it was determined that student learning was similar
regardless of assignment type (t(20) = 1.481, p= .154), the study revealed benefits of
using recorded PechaKucha presentations, including increased content engagement and
increased student enjoyment.
Keywords PechaKucha presentations .Online education .Student learning .Higher education
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-020-09507-9
James S. Ave is Professor and Chair of the Department of Kinesiology at Fresno Pacific University. He earned
his Ph.D. from the University of Southern Mississippi. His interests are strengths-based education, using
technology to enhance student learning, and athletic training professionalism.
Devin Beasley is the Director of Teacher Education at the University of La Verne. He earned his Ed.D. in
Educational Administration from the University of Pacific. His interests include online instruction, curriculum
development in K-12 education, and improving the quality of physical education instruction.
Amy Brogan is Assistant Professor in Kinesiology at Fresno Pacific University. She earned her Ed.D. in
Educational Leadership from California State University, Fresno. Her interests are service-learning in higher
education, non-impact cross training and the effect on athletic performance, and motivation and performance.
*James S. Ave
jim.ave@fresno.edu
Devin Beasley
Dbeasley@laverne.edu
Amy Brogan
amy.brogan@fresno.edu
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Innovative Higher Education (2020) 45:373–386
Published online: 22May2020
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... One of the major strengths of our study was that all students were assigned to both conditions. Previous studies asked students to rate their PechaKucha experience with their previous PowerPoint experience (Ave et al., 2020;Warmuth, 2021). On the contrary, in our study, all students used both PowerPoint and PechaKucha presentations which allowed us to examine individual satisfaction and preference between the two presentation methods. ...
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