Re: "Labs" vs. "Tutorials"?

[Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net>]

This sounds a bit like the academic environment.  Academic courses that 
involve learning about a science often provide a laboratory section to 
apply the science.  For example, a Physical Science course may offer a 
one-hour lecture with a two-hour guided laboratory to practice what was 
learned in the lecture.  Tutorials, on the other hand, are usually 
self-paced and self-guided.

If your hands-on training course involves a lecture where no work is 
performed and it is followed by a practice session where lessons are 
applied, then you have a lecture and laboratory.  If the training course 
walks students through the procedures without a separate lecture, then 
you likely have a tutorial.  If the course is primarily self-guided, 
then you definitely have a tutorial.

Lauren


On 3/29/2010 9:25 AM, Michael Herman (Parallelspace) wrote:
> I've writing some step-by-step procedures for a hands-on training course for
> IT professionals/system administrators.
>
> 1.       When should these sorts of procedures be called Labs? .when should
> these be called Tutorials?
>    

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