Classes should do hands-on exercises before reading and video, Stanford researchers say

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/july/flipped-learning-model-071613.html

I feel like video tutorials have exploded on the web and I remain quite skeptical that a video explaining how to do something is an effective means by which someone should learn. If an animation or other visuals help, then maybe the video works well. But for information that can just as easily be shown statically, then I think video fails to have an advantage. It can even be a disadvantage - case in point, an email I received recently from the university about account security was about 90 second...