video tutorials

Instructional online clips

Video tutorials are instructional videos that teach viewers how to do something, typically by demonstrating steps on screen.

They range from professional courses to amateur how-tos: I learned to edit photos from video tutorials on YouTube.

The format dominates online learning because showing is often clearer than telling.

Opposites
instructional format/medium

video tutorialsclassroom teaching

Education in school setting

textbooks · podcasts · oral tradition · apprenticeship · mentorship

synchronicity and interaction

video tutorialsone-on-one tutoring

Individual teaching arrangement

live demonstrations · synchronous learning · office hours · coaching sessions · Socratic dialogue

structured guidance vs. unguided learning

video tutorialstrial and error

Learning through repeated attempts

self-discovery · learning by doing · sink or swim · reference manuals · reverse engineering

Family

video, tutorial

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G