Single Page for video & text resources or multiple?

[PhotographerSteve]

Our new site will have a 'learning center' which contains educational videos as well as articles for prospects who are considering purchase. We were thinking linking to the "Learning center" page from main menu then having multiple videos and articles on this page. (thumbnails, & brief descriptions). Then when the user clicks on the video or article this will take them to a page with that video or article. My thoughts are that would allow us to optimize each page for that question or video topic.

Is this a good idea? or should we just have video thumbnails on one page and have the video play on that same page?  What about articles, should they also expand on that page or should they open on separate page?  We are using WP as CMS.

If the videos open on separate pages then how does the user easily get the other videos? will they have to go back to the /learning page or something else? It would seem like a lot of work to have them keep going back to watch one video, then go back and watch the next.

What is the best practice - if there is one?  Examples of websites that do this well?

[RyanPurkey]

Typically for a learning center evironemnt a combination of the two can be really helpful, i.e. the video combined with the article. Here at Moz they use a transcription of their Whiteboard Fridays in order to generate searchable text in relation to the content of the video. This does two things:

1. You get a page with more content than just the video.
2. The text of the video becomes searchable not just for Google, but on site users.

To get to other videos you can link to related ones with thumbnails within relevant articles, you can organize them into a playlists, really lots of options here... There are several learning centers / training video sites out there where you can get ideas of what will work best for you.  Cheers!