New research has found that students who take notes outperform students who photograph slides during an online lecture. "We consistently found that note-takers remembered more information from the lectures than photo-takers or no-note-takers," says Dr. Sarah Shi Hui Wong, an instructor at the National University of Singapore, and the lead author of the paper. "In fact, photo-takers performed just as poorly on the test as their peers who didn't take any notes at all."