Engaging Tutorials?

Is it possible? For this week’s assignment I was given an advance copy of Martin Tessmer’s “Writing On Line Training Tutorials.” What an opportunity.  I wanted to give a copy of this book-draft to anyone who has ever worked on any on line tutorial I’ve taken!  All too often tutorials are crammed full of text with minimal interaction, minimal engagement, and let’s face it, minimal learning.  Your average stand alone tutorial is not a particularly effective means of teaching, instructing or educating.  Yet, there is almost an expectation in corporate learning that every eLearning solution will include tutorials.  So, what do you do with them?  How do you produce an effective tutorial? Dr. Tessmer provides examples of best practices…