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Are books history?
Fri, 07/04/2008 - 17:02 — Blake
Sean McGown: I've been noticing something recently and I'm seeing it more and more. IT learning resources are moving more and more towards video screencasting and less and less towards the continuation of written material. Now, I'm not predicting the demise of books just yet, but I've noticed that people are asking for video resources more often.
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Talk about overgeneralizing!
Videos work better than books for training someone on a specific task.
Therefore, books are dead.
You don't see leaps like that everyday. Probably just as well.
(I gotta say, if I want a reminder of how to convert text to a table in Word 2007, I sure as heck don't want a training video, I want text--but I don't want a book either. It's not the right medium for the specific task. Which hardly makes it useless as a medium, unless all you ever do is train people on specific tasks, I suppose.)
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