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Specifically regarding videos: Why would I waste an hour of my time watching somebody rambling on, when the edited transcript can be skim/read in 5-10 minutes?
by GianFabien 2y ago
Specifically regarding videos: Why would I waste an hour of my time watching somebody rambling on, when the edited transcript can be skim/read in 5-10 minutes? It might save the author/presenter time to just record a video. But in turn it wastes thousands of hours of other people's time.
Yeah, I get it, some people can't be bothered reading anything longer than a tweet. Those same folks watch TikTok instead of hour+ long video presentations.
- bruce511 2y agoPeople come in a variety of ways, and with a variety of learning skills and patterns. Some are highly visual, and learn primarily through watching. The teacher/student model works for them (live or delayed). (There is a vast library of this that already exists on video, on platforms that exceed tiktok. ) Others learn better from source text material. A few good books and they have all they need. The lecturer is "just reading the book" so its faster to skip the middleman. Understanding this difference is key to creating a good spread of training material. It's not sufficient to "just produce a manual" or "just make videos". Personally I find some topics work better in visual form (explaining exercises for psyio recently) and some work better as text (api reference.)