What are video books?
Simply put, a "Video book" is a great way to get "Hands-On Training
Live On Your Desktop". You control the pacing of instruction, you choose the
materials/topics for training and the skill level ? just download the video tutorials
and "Watch and Learn." You can even follow along on your computer to get
true "Hands-On" practice.
vid-e-o-book: noun, A website containing
training videos recorded by an
expert instructor; similar in content to a "How To" book
Here's how it works: First, LearnItFirst.com seeks out an expert instructors to
record a training curriculum on a particular technology. We then work with the "author"
to develop a syllabus and to plan the Videobook's goals. Once this is developed,
LearnItFirst.com takes the raw video footage shot of the instructor and splits the
raw video into 5-15 minute task-based videos. LearnItFirst.com's web team then uploads
the dozens (or even hundreds) of 5-15 minute videos to the LearnItFirst website
and they create a new Videobook! A user subscribes to the Videobook and can immediately
download the video tutorials and start their training within minutes. Subscribers
can even save the videos on their hard drive for later viewing.
Profile of a Typical Videobook Course
The typical Videobook course will have between 50 to 200 training videos varying
in duration from 5-25 minutes apiece. The average video's length is around ten minutes
which means the average "course"/videobook contains anywhere from 6-20
hours of classroom-quality training.
Many of our subscribers mention that they love the format of our Videobook courses
particularly the "Search" features. Each Videobook has a comprehensive
search engine that allows anyone to quickly locate training videos on a particular
topic. If you visit LearnItFirst.com and search for "Backup and recovery",
for example, you'll be presented with a list of each of the videos that feature
training on "Backup and recovery". You can "drill down" and
search by video title, search by title and description, and even use "AND/OR"
(Boolean) searches to hone in on exactly the training you need.
Final Thoughts
Upon first hearing of the idea of our Videobook courses, people tend to have a range
of questions. "What about the quality of instruction?" and "How expensive
is a subscription?" The best thing to do is to find a Videobook that you're
interested in and check it out (click here for a full listing of the Videobooks
available in the LearnItFirst course list).
Try it out - we think you'll be happy. The average subscription cost for a Videobook
is affordable nd you get to keep the videos and watch them as often as you like.
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