Eight guidelines for the design of instructional videos for software training

Technical Communication

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 205-228

  van der Meij, Hans ^a   van der Meij, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b ELAN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Procedural support; Software tutorials; Streamlined step; Video instruction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885132589     PISSN: 00493155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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