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 isn't remotely relevant...
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@Daojoan @encthenet aka “See me do $something I haven’t done (in a long time/ ever before)
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I feel this. Tried to watch part of a 3h video on master class mobile phone networks, and there was so much I already knew that if it was a long blog post I could easily scroll past the parts I knew already saving me a lot of time. Instead I just bailed on the video.
(Probably doing videos for those sweet ad dollars.)
@Daojoan Videos are the worst for learning things like coding. How do copy some sample code? Or do some training things with answers.
@Daojoan I prefer my tutorials in written form as well. Video is a terrible medium for tutorials. It's a feeling I also get from audio books in general: it's just too slow compared to reading.
@Daojoan Why I put that shit in NotebookLM so you don't have to watch them.
Well, videos are good for bicycle repair, usually.
Not so good for coding. Why do I need to see someone type something on screen?
When you find the bit of info that you want inside the video, screen capture the important bits, and make a note in your favorite note-taking app (like #Joplin ) so you won't have to do it again.
@Daojoan the top-shelf content from @piccalilli is worth checking out.
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Funnily enough, I was ranting similarly earlier today. It’s so rude to waste so much of your audience’s time just because you can’t be bothered to write a text version.
https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ/116113853910864608
@Daojoan Absolutely! Good God! So sad honestly! I'm glad though that the 100 Days of SwiftUI is still text-based along with the video, but still... I know what you mean!
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Too right. Video guides are only one pillar of (potential) education.
@Daojoan I feel that and I am glad that we convinced a bunch of people to write tutorials: https://oemof-solph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials.html
@Daojoan You are onto the truth. I love the convenience and art of video/film. However, "educational film and tv" are time consuming and frequently/usually unclear. While I use maps for navigation instead of a list of directions, I much prefer a guide with good clear drawings to a video tutorial. The latter are to keep viewers online while data harvesting. It's the tyranny of the filmmaker to control how viewers are fed information. As kids, we mocked "educational films" as time out.
@Daojoan I swear I'm constantly running into a theme, were something that's better off as text is made a video and then some complicated disassembly tutorial again is in text form that is so vague most of the time I have no idea what's been referred to, especially when it's put through a machine translator first.
I remember, that I had to find a certain function on a device I own.
Explaining where to find it, takes two simple sentences in English, maybe 200 bytes.
The only thing, I found on the net: A multi-minute #video. Megabytes wasted. Let's burn the planet.
@Daojoan And to make matters worse, there is fuck ton of stupid Ai generated generic slop videos that don't actually fix anything, it's just a generic video to fix some very broad issue and you can find like 15 same videos from different "creators".
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"Oh, I remember this video talked about that. Let me just ctrl-F the keyword to find the right part of the video..."
@Daojoan not to toot my own horn too much, but this has been annoying me for YEARS, and after pushing for way too long there's now interactive learning built into #Grafana.. as in, If you go to https://play.grafana.org/alerting , click the question mark in the upper right, and then select the interactive guide, it teaches you within the UI
@Daojoan the inability to process written language was the first slice at the throat, imo.
@Daojoan Now there is a AI button on youtube videos which you can use for summarizing the video or asking other questions.
@Daojoan omg this. Every click to a link is painful.
@Daojoan yes! We had a discussion about this at my customer, and a user survey. The result has been 50/50 between video and written. We did a blended learning concept and we decided to choose the best for the users .
I agree , I like written as well more
@Daojoan I always hated video tutorials. Esp. because the format is inherently hard to adjust for updates.
@Daojoan Writing good guides is so much harder. Modern life gravitates towards the easy path.
@Daojoan Yes, I greatly prefer a concise, written 'how to' above the endless blathering on a video.
@Daojoan depending on what you want to learn I can suggest the Odin project if it’s software development you want to learn they have an exhaustive guide
@Daojoan Fully agree. Unfortunately most (AI gen'd?) websites also fail to get to the point efficiently, and ramble on around the subject for ages. Hence I prefer a short'n'succinct Codeberg/Github page or minimal blog post that dives straight into the issue and be done with it.
@Daojoan to be fair, video *tutorials* have worked better than written *tutorials* for me in many occasions. What I really struggle with right now is finding something that *isn't* a tutorial when all I need is concise, high-quality, up-to-date, structured and easily searchable reference material. Especially when it comes to web development.
@Daojoan Oh hell that is so true! It drives me bloody insane!
Ten minutes of video drivel that could be condensed down to a couple of pages of text and a few diagrams - all of which might take just a few minutes to read, understand and act upon.
I know about learning styles, etc. and that video instruction works better for some people, but give the rest of us the option FFS!!
