From TED: How web video powers global innovation

Chris Anderson says the rise of web video is driving a worldwide phenomenon he calls Crowd Accelerated Innovation -- a self-fueling cycle of learning that could be as significant as the invention of print. But to tap into its power, organizations will need to embrace radical openness. And for TED, it means the dawn of a whole new chapter.

http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_anderson_how_web_video_powers_global_innovation.html

After a long career in journalism and publishing, Chris Anderson became the curator of the TED Conference in 2002 and has developed it as a platform for identifying and disseminating ideas worth spreading.

How-To Tutorials - Part 2: Sample

A quick recap of How-To Tutorials:

• Light in size
• Quick to build and consume
• Enable informal learning
• A complimentary learning solution for in-time learning needs
• Three sections: Introduction, Demonstration, and Exercise

Here is a sample of How-To Tutorials

Testing a REST service

Introduction

The REST service allows you to expose your application as a REST application, which can be published and invoked from any Web Server. Once a REST service is created, it must be tested. You can use a plug-in on a web browser such as RESTClient on Mozilla FireFox to test a REST service.

Demonstration

Click PLAY to start the demonstration that shows how to test a REST service using RESTClient plug-in on Mozilla FireFox.

Exercise: Testing a REST Service

Part 1— Testing a REST Service Step Exercise Instructions Solution Screen 1. Once you have obtained the REST service URL of your application, copy the URL. Launch the Firefox browser. 2. Open the RESTClient using the icon on the browser’s navigation bar. 3. In the RESTClient page, paste your REST service URL in the URL input field and click SEND. 4. Once you receive response from the application, you can view the response under four tabs: Headers, Body (Raw), Body (Highlight) , and Body (Preview).

Note: You can increase the effectiveness of How-To Tutorials if you can:
1. Add audio for the demonstration.
2. Make this a part of total product tutorials.
In this sample, the solution screens are not active.

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How-To Tutorials - Part 1

While designing and developing online learning modules for technical/software products, we must remember that different technical learners prefer learning in different ways.

Some may choose to learn from an expert in a classroom and some from a traditionally developed learning module.

However, most technical learners prefer learning in chunks based on their immediate need, preferably short and simple chunks. In addition, they would prefer an accomplishment (small and simple hands-on) by the end of each learning chunk.

 
A few months back, based on these understandings I worked out on a concept – ‘How-To Tutorials’.

How-To Tutorials is based on four main rules:

• Light in size
• Short lessons
• Quick to build and consume
• Template based development 
• Enable informal learning
• Need based learning
• A complimentary learning solution for in-time learning needs

How-To Tutorials has three sections:
Part 1 - Introduction: A brief introduction
Part 2 - Demonstration: A video demonstrating, how to use the feature
Part 3 - Exercise: Steps to implement the feature on live product

These tutorials can be delivered in two ways:

• Embed in the product (like Help)
• Host on a portal (such as LMS, communities, forums, YouTube etc.)

Coming next: 
In Part -2, a sample of How-To Tutorials (How-To Test a REST service in Mozilla FireFox).