VIDEO PROFESSOR
Unfortunately, technology changes at an astonishing rate; and keeping up with the new advances can be difficult most of the time. For children that grew up using computers often, programs like Microsoft Word or even knowing how to use the Internet tend to pick up on technology quite smoothly in class. However, for those that are first timers to computers, there is Video Professor.
For nearly two decades, John W. Scherer, the Video Professor, has been aiding people in learning the computer skills that they need today. Whether they are interested in a job where certain skills are necessary or whether people just want to learn how to do something on the computer, Video Professor offers CD ROM tutorials that teach everyone how to do it all.
Using television commercials and infomercials, Video Professor has gained 80 percent market penetration with over 300,000 lessons shipping each month. This clearly makes Video Professor an industry leader in the distance learning industry. Thus, it comes as no surprise that Video Professor is effective as they millions of happy customers.
The Video Professor lessons cover a great variety of topics, from Microsoft Excel to Photoshop to EBay. All of these tutorials can help improve everyone’s computer skills, and help them increase their employment opportunities, as well. Since so many jobs require knowledge of computer programs such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Windows, and/or Photoshop, Video Professor is the perfect tool to boost people’s resumes.
The Video Professor distance learning system teaches by a method that many are familiar with— “what you see is what you do.” Once the disk is inserted in people’s computers, a small window opens with easy to use menus. The program runs in this window, allowing people to watch the lesson while simultaneously following along in the application that they are learning about. This has proved to be very successful for millions of individuals. It may as well be the perfect learning tool for everyone.
In addition, the best part about the Video Professor program is that it allows great flexibility for people. There is no travel or preparation time necessary, as there would be for a class. The material can literally be learned any time of the day. Conveniently, the videos can be paused, stopped, “fast forwarded,” or rewound whenever it is necessary to look back on some information. Also, with this way, the viewer is able to stop the lesson and return later to finish it, or skip over parts that they already know. Being able to rewind to review a more complicated part of the lesson it certainly helpful. So, whenever people think about wanting to learn new software, they should turn to the easy to use and easy to follow Video Professor.