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Stuart Selber Explores How Social Web 2.0 Features Change the Nature of How-to Instruct... - 1 views

  • Selber’s framework explores how new “social” online tools are currently changing the nature of instruction both at Penn State and around the world.
  • At one end of the spectrum is what Selber calls the self-contained instruction set, such as a manual presented in print or other static format that is handed down to a user in fixed form, often written by a professional technical writer
  • In his framework, those include “embedded” how-tos, where instructions are still fixed, but around which readers can add comments, discussions, and ratings, and “open” how-tos, which readers can actually edit or customize using tools such as wikis.
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  • An example of the embedded model is the Web site eHow.com
  • An example of the open model is the Web site wikiHow.com
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