Tutorials and Wizards

Our next topic is tutorials, wizards and how the apply to training. The objective is to try to understand how the use of technology affects the way people learn, both in the academic environment (schools, universities) as well as in job training. Throughout this unit we will be covering the following issues:

Social and ethical issues
Study and evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of tutorials, training
and wizards. These may include:
• the balance in responsibility between an individual and an organization for training
• the need for IT companies to consider global and cultural diversity when preparing training and tutorial software
• the requirement of organizations to provide training when implementing change.
Related technological concepts include:
• key terms—tutorial software, training software, wizards and assistants, help menu and help features,“Read Me” files
• using wizards, assistants and online assistants in the design and creation of a product, for example, desktop-published documents, slideshows, web sites.

We will start discussing the topics by watching two videos that reflect on how education has changed:

• Sir Ken Robinson: "Do Schools Kill Creativity?"
• Richard Baraniuk: "Open Source Learning"

Our first activity for this topic will be the discussion of some of the implications of the two videos.