The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore.
It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that mostly isn't relevant...
Thatās an idea! If only YouTube was owned by a company whose goal is to make accessible the worldās data!
Thereās no reason we couldnāt just CTRL-F the auto generated captions & visual text contents of a video.
I hate watching them. I learn best from print and itās far faster than having to wait while some narcissist bloviates before tediously going through their routine.
Not everything going on a screen must look like a TV show.
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I think its also strongly related to the now growing generation that has never been used a personal computer with keyboard in their life
They are growing up natively with mobile devices that you just cant seriously type more than a few words on a tiny screen or edit photos, but that completely naturally bring back and front cameras to record what you do while speaking about it
@Daojoan Drives me bloody insane.
No, I don't want to watch a 10 minute video when finding the information I want in a text would take less than half that. No, I don't want to watch you fumble your way through a poorly rehearsed process. No, I don't want to 'like and subscribe'.
Unfortunately, with the rise of Medium and similar companies, textual information is also becoming less accessible. But give me text over a video any day of the week.
@Daojoan it's even worse at work. Many compliance training (i.e. ethics, security) can be distilled into simple concepts: don't be an idiot, don't be a d*ck, don't do stupid things. If you do you're out.
No. They want you to watch a video. And since it is mandatory you have to sit and watch.
I just set it to play and mute the audio. If you've done one of these, you probably have seen them all.
Oh yes I need to see hard copy to learn, Listening in the backgroud while reading useful, but not as my primary method. Probably why I did so crap at uni
And on videos mode of them talk v.e.r.y s.l.o.w.l.y as if theyāre addressing a toddler or non-native speaking English š¤¦
I have to play them at least 1.25 x š¤·
@TCMuffin @Daojoan I don't mind it as much on training portal videos as long as ... yes ... they can be sped up as necessary. I like speeding up/down and stopping as necessary as I work through stuff. Here's a couple of videos I rated very very highly:
I really like it when there is a video tutorial for a crochet project! (But only if there is ALSO a written pattern)
@Daojoan Maybe this can sometimes help: https://github.com/obra/Youtube2Webpage
PS: Am currently working on the new release of a guide for one of our products. No videos far and wide! š
@Daojoan The noise is quite comparable in print media. Everyone is a content creator. It has been engineered as a feasible and viable lifestyle by Si valley. So everyone is out there hustling, adding more noise to the world.
The defence of this noise is that one piece of content that helped you solve a mundane problem you didn't want to understand and/or spend time dealing with.
"10 minutes of content"
If only we were so lucky for the vacuous talks to be that short. š„
Agree. There are some things where āshow meā works better. But most of the time Iām just looking for a summary and the list of steps to take (ie, the recipe)!
@Daojoan honestly, been moaning about this for almost a decade now. but i understand why, and unfortunately i don't see it changing as it's a lot easier making money with a video than it is with text due to the reach of the medium overall.
gone are the days you got paid a living wage by the word (especially thanks to googles algorithms being entirely unable to discern between genuine content and SEO).
i don't see any solution to this short of killing youtube's money mill incentive and SEO.
Totally agreeā¦I still produce written guides (illustrated with screenshots where appropriate) for my clients!
One client even has an A4 folder stuffed full of my guides written during the ~20 years Iāve worked with herā¦itās called her āHOW TO DO!!ā file š
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