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What is a Videobook?

Simply put, a "Videobook" is a great way to get "Hands-On Training Live On Your Desktop". You control the pacing of instruction, you choose the materials/topics for training and the skill level ? just download the video tutorials and "Watch and Learn." You can even follow along on your computer to get true "Hands-On" practice.

vid-e-o-book: noun, A website containing training videos recorded by an
expert instructor; similar in content to a "How To" book

Here's how it works: First, LearnItFirst.com seeks out an expert instructors to record a training curriculum on a particular technology. We then work with the "author" to develop a syllabus and to plan the Videobook?s goals. Once this is developed, LearnItFirst.com takes the raw video footage shot of the instructor and splits the raw video into 5-15 minute task-based videos. LearnItFirst.com?s web team then uploads the dozens (or even hundreds) of 5-15 minute videos to a website thus creating a new Videobook! A user subscribes to the Videobook website and can immediately download the video tutorials and start their training within minutes. Subscribers can even save the videos on their hard drive for later viewing.

Profile of a Typical Videobook Website

The typical Videobook website will have between 50 to 500 training videos varying in duration from 5-25 minutes with the average video length being around nine minutes. If a Videobook website, LearnExchange.com for example, has 150 videos averaging ten minutes each, that means that subscribers to LearnExchange.com have full access to download and watch over 25 hours of training.*

Many of our subscribers mention that they love the format of our Videobook websites particularly the "Search" features. Each Videobook has a comprehensive search engine that allows anyone to quickly locate training videos on a particular topic. If you visit LearnExchange.com and search for "Backup and recovery", for example, you'll be presented with a list of each of the videos that feature training on "Backup and recovery". You can "drill down" and search by video title, search by title and description, and even use "AND/OR" (Boolean) searches to hone in on exactly the training you need.

Final Thoughts

Upon first hearing of the idea of our Videobook websites, people tend to have a range of questions. "What about the quality of instruction?" and "How expensive is a subscription?" The best thing to do is to find a Videobook that you're interested in and check it out (click here for a full listing of the video books available in the LearnItFirst.com Video Training Network). Most subscriptions to a video book cost about the same price as a single technical book so cost is never a factor. Also, each video book must offer free videos in order to give potential subscribers an idea of the quality of instruction they will receive as a subscriber.

Try it out - we think you'll be happy. The average subscription cost for a video book is around $70 and you get to keep the videos and watch them as often as you like. What a deal!

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* The numbers and video times on this page are for illustrative purposes only. Please visit the Videobook website for accurate numbers and times.

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