YouTube

YouTube is an online video service, where people can view and upload videos from all over the world. I as I am sure many others have had plenty of experience using YouTube and all it has to offer...even if it is not always factual.

YouTube as discussed my Snelson & Elison-Bowers, 'is particularly beneficial in e-learning which relies on digital content'. This is because it allows videos to be used as educational learning tools and is very easy to obtain. Since the creation of YouTube in 2005 (Snelson & Elison-Bowers, 2009) there has been a rapid growth in online video creation and viewing. As a learning tool, YouTube is beneficial because it has a immense range of different videos that can be accessed via the site. For example (see below video), you can learn how to cook a cake, make a paper aeroplane or even to more in deepth things such as the way the human body functions.

Reference List
Snelson, C. & Elison-Bowers, P. (2009). Using YouTube videos to engage the affective domain in e-learning. Retrieved August 15, 2009 from http://www.formatex.org/micte2009/book/1481-1485.pdf