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Why Is Video Training Becoming So Popular?

It's easy to say why video training is so much more popular today than it was just a decade ago - it really just one one simple thing: bandwidth. It's only been in the last five years that the average person could watch online video at their home. Once bandwidth was able to accomodate people downloading large files quickly, the popularity of online video sites like YouTube.com and LearnItFirst.com began to explode.

"People Like to Save Money and Be More Productive at the Same Time"

It's also easy to pick up why people flock to video sites - watching an online video often leads to learning faster and retaining more than just reading boring old books and articles. And because the video training providers can, "Record once, sell many", the costs to the end user are extremely low. Scott Whigham, founder of LearnItFirst.com, likes to emphasize the C.A.P. of video training:

Convenience - watch anywhere, anytime
Affordability - typically cost about the same as a book
Portability - if you buy from the right vendor, your videos can playback on just about any device

Scott says, "People like to save money and be more productive at the same time. That's really what video training is all about - or, at least, that's what our videos are about!"

Who Uses Video Training?

Just about everyone does today - online video training has become as popular as classroom training, "How to" books, and instructional DVDs and it's easy to see why: with online video training, users can start learning immediately - there's literally no waiting. With a book or DVD, you have to wait for it to arrive in the mail. With a training class, you have to worry about things like, "Is the class scheduled when I need it?" and, even if there is a class scheduled, "Will I have to take off work (or travel)?"

Online learning has begun to take over the entire training industry. It's not just individuals who are using online training - businesses of all sizes are replacing expensive training packages for employees and going the video training route. For individuals, it's an easy sell: online training is often 1/10th of the cost of "Live" training classes and easily half the cost of DVDs. For businesses, the savings are even higher as well as the benefit of not having your employees leave the office for training.

For most users, online learning products offer instant training, simply by downloading or logging into the training site(s). LearnItFirst.com, for example, allows customers to instantly download whatever training video they are looking for, saving them time a great deal of time and frustration.

Summary

While in-person training is still likely to be the most effective learning technique, it can also be incredibly time consuming and prohibitively expensive for most people. Not only do the attendees have to set aside their projects in order to attend the training, there are often scheduling conflicts, travel time, re-training needs and time spent following up on forgotten aspects of the training.

Video training takes all the good about Instructor-Led training classes - watching the instructor and seeing the examples work - and combines them with all that's good about "How to" books - the affordability and the portability. Because LearnItFirst.com enables its users to view their videos on everything from computers to smartphones to mp3 players, the videos can be watched anytime, anywhere. It completely eliminates the need to travel for training. And it is effective because users have the ability to watch the videos as many times as they need.

With that many advantages, it is no wonder that online learning has become one of the most common ways to train individuals and businesses. As more people learn of the usability and convenience of video training, it will likely become the first-choice for training for just about everyone.

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