A videobook is a form of online training that delivers web-based training via downloadable training videos. Most videobooks are single website entities that focus on teaching the user (typically a subscriber)a particular topic. Videobooks are, as the name implies, similar in content and outline to a "regular" book. The videos are typically recorded by a trained instructor and offered to the viewer on a subscription-based model. The user visits the videobook (the website containing the training videos), purchases a subscription, and can then download any or all of the training videos.
Videobooks are different from many Computer-based training (CBT) models in that videobook videos are typically in a shareable/portable (non-proprietary) format. They also differ in the content delivery