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Investigatation of YouTube as an online platform used during remote learning forced by COVID-19
- Source :
- EUREKA: Social and Humanities, EUREKA: Social and Humanities, Iss 1, Pp 43-49 (2022)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Zenodo, 2022.
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Abstract
- The main aim of this study was to investigate online platforms, specifically YouTube, suitable for remote learning, forced by covid-19 from traditional face-to-face to online learning. To achieve the study's objectives, which are to investigate the effectiveness of remote learning, general students’ feelings have about online education, lecturer's efficiency in using online tools to teach, and student's ability to adapt to online learning, the study employed a qualitative method where three videos with content relevant for a post-graduate diploma in higher education were made and uploaded to YouTube to investigate the efficiency of the online tool. Advantages of YouTube as an educational platform were discussed, which include flexibility and cost, among others. The challenges related to internet connections; resources, used to conduct YouTube lessons, were discussed. Recommendations to address some of these challenges using YouTube as an educational platform were explored. These recommendations include, amongst others, workshops and seminars should be held by administrators to teach lecturers and teachers how to use technology in their classes, universities need to adopt this new learning system as a part of the curriculum because to save time, money.
- Subjects :
- south africa
COVID-19 Pandemic
Bildungswesen tertiärer Bereich
online learning
Social Sciences
Fernunterricht
Education
online activities
ddc:370
YouTube
traditional learning
remote learning
educational platform
learning environment
Curriculum, Teaching, Didactics
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
Republik Südafrika
Unterricht, Didaktik
Bildung und Erziehung
e-learning
Online-Medien
students
electronic learning
university teaching
University Education
online media
correspondence course
Republic of South Africa
Lernumgebung
Hochschullehre
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- EUREKA: Social and Humanities, EUREKA: Social and Humanities, Iss 1, Pp 43-49 (2022)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cfe3c94a1acc93cf15fbb2c1634b0001