Sunday, June 13, 2010
E-learning and Youtube
While sitting in class talking about the videos we will be doing for our personal projects, i got thinking about e-learning and how video sites like You-Tube are impacting it. One site, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee_8IMx0uMo, for example, shows the average person how to screen print. Five years ago this technology wasn't available, and now, you find it whether you're on YouTube's search, or just Google-ing. Two sites, www.howtodothings.com and www.ehow.com, both show step-by-step guides, most with pictures, on how to do things on a variety of topics. While this is not a site to use on a corporate level, they can be a starting point to provide cheaper, more efficient training. I see a future where several companies, all running the same, or atleast a few of the same departments, creating online training to be accessed by those employees. Employee accounts could be set up so on login, only those sites they need to access are available. While we won't know if I'm right or wrong until the future, i forsee this as being the cheapest route available.
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Steve,
ReplyDeleteI thought about this topic a couple of months ago as I was repairing an Xbox 360 with the "red ring of death". I googled "how to fix the rrod" and the first few hits were from You-Tube with complete tutorials on exactly what was needed, and how to fix the issue. After repairing the system and testing it out successfully, I thought to myself how much helpful it is to have sources of information like the video that saved my nephew about $80.
Makes me wonder what did we do before the information age?
Great Post!
I use sites like youtube all the time and your right it is a cheaper route of learning how to do things by seeing someone else doing it. At school we have videos offered to us that we can watch that eliminates textbook cost. So if companies would start to do this type of e-learning by videos there would be alot of training cost cut.
ReplyDeleteYep, You can find out how to do just about anything on youtube (legal and illegal). Like Daniel was talking about, fixing an xbox's red rings, which I've looked up before myself, and even to modding a 360. We use google video searches at work for quick tutorials on fixing issues that we haven't come across before.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I used you tube last semester for the first time for educational purposes. I had to do a speech and was unclear on how to start or what content to include in it. I was advised by the professor to search you tube for suggestions and it prove to be a great benefit for me. I typed my topic in the search menu bar and it pulled up several videos related to my topic. You tube will and have proven to be one of the new tools in the e-learning process.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, an interesting idea! It is probably already being implemented at various organizations. Instead of just text-based Knols, add video and audio-based Knols too. lbk
ReplyDeleteNo doubt that web video has taken video learning to another level with ease of access. With youtube recently celebrating its 5th anniversary, we have all seen how resourceful it can be for all types of learning (and not just entertainment). There are posts for learning almost everything from playing a guitar to playing with an iPad. Also with Google acquiring the rights to youtube a couple years back, the return on search results often provide Google/youtube videos within the first search page. So when someone looks for an answer to a question online, often times, a result is provided in video format. It is also a fantastic tool to have included video instead of simply reading instructions and glancing at images.
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