Microsoft's Introduction to Rust Video Course
Is anyone aware of any learning research which analyses this 5min-by-5min approach to course production?I'm really not a fan of it.There's something not quite right in treating "conceptual learning" as if it were a sort of follow-these-steps "to tie a knot" problem.Imagine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7DzL2_Na80#t=2m20s as a series of 5min videos...It also seems like Microsoft produces a lot of developer videos done in this style, as if the thing to be learned were a wizard ("next, next, next, next").Consider the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajvipmDMwAg . Each step is simply a "next step", and the narrator merely describes what is being done.Gilbert would, I'd say begin with the problem: "Suppose we're looking a films. And what is a film? It's these things: ..... Now in Rust we model that with a struct -- ".And so on: the learning here is illustrating the connection between the mindset of programming and the activity.Quite a lot of what I've seen from Microsoft, and increasingly many 5-min-by-5min courses, is very little modelling of thought process. The very thing to be learned.