The study digs into why students would be better at a lesson based on when they get visual assistance.

One of the biggest studies of its kind to date has concluded that although the introduction of lecture capture does lead to reduced class attendance, academics must accept that students see it as a ...

These findings hold important implications for students who use their laptops to access lecture outlines and notes that have been posted by professors before class.

It turns out there is. A new study —conducted by Mueller and Oppenheimer—finds that people remember lectures better when they’ve taken handwritten notes, rather than typed ones.

And to test the external-storage hypothesis, for the third study they gave students the opportunity to review their notes in between the lecture and test.

Garvin, David A. "Participant-Centered Learning and the Case Method: A Case Study Teacher in Action." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 904-421, April 2004.

Students who heard the same lecture on cats from two instructors scored equally well on a test, even though students with the better lecturer thought they’d learned more.