edutorial

English

Etymology

Blend of educational +‎ tutorial.

Noun

edutorial (plural edutorials)

1. (rare) A type of article aiming to deliver the author's opinion as well as educational content.
   • 1990, Scholastic Update, volume 122, page 8:

     In the student edition of this issue of your Scholastic magazine, you'll find a special "advertising edutorial" brought to you by Scholastic and the U.S Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

   • 1997, Deborah Leslie, “Flexibly specialized agencies? Reflexivity, identity, and the advertising industry”, in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, volume 29, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1017–1038:

     Political advertising made increasing use of entertaining 'sound bites', and 'infomercials' and 'edutorials' proliferated.

   • 2001, Walter Roark, Keeping the Baby Alive Till Your Wife Gets Home, Clearing Skies Press, published 2005, →ISBN, page 74:

     Adding to the onslaught in recent years are clever, premeditated e-mail 'edutorials' designed to snare innocent new moms and dads with modems.

   • 2018 March 8, Lorenz Meuli, Florian Dick, “Major Sources of Bias”, in European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, volume 55, number 5, →DOI, →ISSN, page 736:

     The first part of this edutorial aims to introduce the principal types of bias that may typically affect clinical research. The second part will deal with the concept of confounding.