Audio Tutorial

Audio Tutorial, to me, is a great approach to a different style of teaching, versus lecture.  It seemed to me that the data suggest that the "conventional" way of teaching is not supperior or inferior to the audio-tutorial approach.  It is just a different way of communicating information to the masses.

It seems like it depends on the preferred way of learning for the student.  In some studies it showed that the drop out rate for AT versus conventional was about the same.  I wonder if the people that dropped out of the AT format would have done better in the conventional and visa-versa because that would have been a better way for them to learn.  I can only think of myself in this aspect, because I feel that if this approach would have been available for me when I was in grammer school, that I would have learned the material better, rather than listening to the teacher constantly.

I, for one, believe that the audio tutorial approach is necessary in my field because we have to produce training that can get to the masses in a relatively short amout of time as well as delivery.  Audio Tutorial gives the flexibility of delivering the training without having to figure out how to deliver. 

In today's society, AT is easier to deliver because we can now use the internet to develop and deliver this type of training/teaching.