demonstrateprovide

Demonstrateprovide is a neologism used to describe a practice that combines demonstration of a capability with provisioning of access or resources needed to use that capability. The term blends demonstrate and provide and appears in discussions of education technology, onboarding, and open science.

Origin and usage: The term emerged in online instructional design discussions in the early 2020s as a compact label for pairing showing how something works with handing over what is required to try it.

Concept: The model has two linked phases. In demonstration, an expert presents a clear example and outlines steps and caveats. In provisioning, learners receive access, credentials, or resources such as software licenses or data needed to reproduce or extend the demonstration. The phases may be sequential or occur concurrently, with provisioning occurring during or soon after the demonstration.

Applications: In education, it supports hands-on learning by pairing a live demonstration with immediate access to a sandbox or dataset. In product onboarding, it helps users experience a feature with a trial account or gated resources. In research and open science, it can improve reproducibility by providing tools alongside a demonstrative protocol.

Benefits and limitations: Benefits include faster skill acquisition, better transfer of learning, and greater engagement. Limitations involve security and privacy concerns, provisioning costs, and the need to keep demonstrations aligned with real-world use to avoid overpromising.

Example: A workshop leader demonstrates a data-cleaning workflow and immediately provides participants with temporary accounts and sample data to practice.